Even when not picking up points, the Cazenovia indoor track and field teams still find a way to outclass the fields in front of them.
The Lakers did so again last Friday night, earning a full share of victories and high finishes, both on the boys and girls sides, running against other Independent teams during the Center State Conference and Independent Championships at Colgate University’s Sanford Field House.
Cazenovia swept the girls relays. Olivia McEntee, Samantha Gates, Grace Milmoe and Megan Henderson got it started when they won the 4×400 relay in 4:27.38.
Following that, Milmoe, Henderson, Clara Rowles and Zoe Shephard took the 4×800 relay in 10:36.40, and in the 4×200 McEntee, Ashley Kent, Molly Carges and Clare Costello needed 1:55.17 to hold off Rome Free Academy (1:55.73) in the 4×200.
In the 3,000-meter run, Rowles and Meggie Hart went 1-2, with Rowles prevailing in 11:14.09, inches ahead of Hart’s 11:14.30, with Alexa Tillman (12:28.58) in fourth place. Hart also finished third in the 1,500-meter run in 5:33.05, while Mya Walters was fifth and Chittenango’s Bailey Price sixth.
Tori Fischer topped 4 feet 10 inches in the high jump and cleared 7’6” in the pole vault to beat Katie Robbins (7 feet) and Jill Britton (6’6”. Kent, who cleared 4’4” in the high jump, made it to third place in the 55-meter hurdles in 10.34 seconds, edging out Carges (10.39 seconds), who was fourth, with Delaney Yates sixth.
Gates took second in the 600-meter run in 1:51.78, with Zoe Shephard third (1:53.16) and Chittenango’s Kaitlyn Swain fourth (1:56.15). Swain also took fourth in the 300-meter dash in 48.19 seconds as Cazenovia’s Scout Mueller was sixth.
Costello was fourth (7.98 second) in the 55-meter dash. Meredith Shephard (3:36.35) and Katie Robbins (3:36.87) were fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 1,000-meter run.
Macheda, going 14’2” in the long jump, was second to Chittenango’s Krissy Roberts (14’4 ½”) as Summer Steinhorst was third and Sadie Coleman fourth. Roberts also fared best in the triple jump, going 31’11” to beat out Carges (29’11”) and Sarah Liddell (28’11 ¼”).
Sarah Haley fared best in the shot put, throwing it 28’10 ½” to beat out Joanna Seeley (25’6 ½”) and Holly Eberle (24’9 ¼”), with Haley going 24’10 ½” and Hayleigh Tillison 23’8 ½” in the weight throw.
On the boys side, Walker Nichols was victorious in the 55 hurdles in 8.38 seconds, while Sam Lanagan was fourth and Christian Winkler fifth. Nichols also unleashed a long jump of 20’8”, while Casey Fenton had a top triple jump of 40’8” and cleared 5 feet in the high jump.
In an exciting 55 sprint, Ryan O’Herien, in 7.06 seconds, edged Chittenango’s Nick Stanton (7.11 seconds) for the top spot, with Alex Devine (7.19 seconds) fifth, this after O’Herien set a school mark in the weight throw (37’11” earlier this year.
Sean Satchwell went 1:26.58 in the 600, setting another school mark and pulling away for a victory as Sean McPherson was sixth in 1:37.44. And the Lakers also won the 4×200, where O’Herien, Devine, Nichols and Fenton edged RFA, 1:37.33 to the Black Knights’ 1:37.60, breaking a school record.
Tom McNerney needed 40.26 seconds to get second place in the 300 sprint, where Alec Boone was fifth and Dylan Hahn sixth. Satchwell, McNerney, Hahn and Boone were third in the 4×400 relay in 3:42.56.
Austin Koennecke, in 2:57.04, made his way to third place in the 1,000, also pairing with Satchwell, Brendan Coffey and Cooper Holgate as the Lakers were third (9:18.77) in the 4×800 relay. Isaac Czarnecki gave Chittenango a victory in the boys mile in 4:53.56, with the Lakers’ Cooper Holgate fifth in 5:23.37.
The Bears’ Mike Capeling, fourth in the 600 behind Satchwell, was second in the boys 3,200-meter run in 10:38.65, with teammate Will Blanding fifth (11:07.59) and the Lakers’ Brendan Coffey in seventh place. In the shot put, Reed Lucas threw it 41’9”, beating out Sawyer Hunt (36’4”) and Will Kmetz (34’9 ¾”).
