With the Section III championships looming on Feb. 4, the Baldwinsville indoor track and field teams still had some regular-season work left to do.
Each of the Bees’ sides took part in this week’s Fred Kirschenheiter Memorial Invitational, getting to fifth place on the boys side and sixth on the girls side on consecutive nights.
In the boys meet last Wednesday, B’ville had 28 points, though it was far behind Fayetteville-Manlius, who with 101 points pulled away from Liverpool (72 points) and the rest of the field.
Again, Evan Donhauser got close to winning the 55-meter hurdles. Finishing in 8.16 seconds, Donhauser gained second place, matching his finish at the John Arcaro Invitational the week before, and again East Syracuse Minoa’s Jeremy McGrath (8.11 seconds) beat him for the top spot.
And it was just as close in the 4×400 relay, where B’ville’s quartet of Arden Kellner, Andrew Carter, Brennan LaQue and Kieran Sheriden hit the finish line in three minutes, 39.34 seconds, inches behind F-M, who won the race in 3:39.32, just 0.12 seconds ahead.
B’ville also saw LaQue, Alex Anselment, Austin Catalano and Sam Mahar make it to third place in the 4×200 relay in 1:39.73, behind Liverpool (1:38.06) and Henninger (1:38.36). Kellner, Dan Conlon, Denis Keegan and Ben Timmons were fifth in the 4×800 relay in 8:59.16.
On his own, Conlon contended in the 1,000-meter run, making it to fifth place in a clocking of 2:46.07. Sam Mahar made it to fifth in the 55-meter dash in 6.89 seconds, where Tyler Luciano was 16th. Evan Vannatta was 14th in the 300-meter dash.
Mahar also was seventh (18 feet 7 ¾ inches) in the long jump, just out of the points, with Martin Sak eighth (38’6 ¼”) and Austin Catalano (38’3 ¾”) eighth and ninth, respectively, in the triple jump. Anselment tied for 10th in the high jump, clearing 5’4”, while Mike Lagana was ninth (8’6”) in the pole vault and Carter Smith was 13th in the shot put.
Eighth-grader Adam Davis took eighth in the 600-meter run in 1:32.74, with teammate Jason Ekure 12th in 1:35.90. Keegan was ninth in the mile in 4:52.80, with Joey Frink (5:00.50) in 13th place. Collin Spaulding was 12th (10:54.82) in the 3,200-meter run, with Conor McManas 20th.
When the B’ville girls took its turn at the Kirschenheiter meet Thursday night, it gained 24 points, sharing sixth with Westhill-Bishop Ludden as, again, F-M won, this time with 100 points.
Nearly half of those points came from the Bees’ win in the 400, where the quartet of Katie Wicks, Hailey Couchman, Rebecca Lawrence and Marissa Lathrop went four minutes, 11.71 seconds to pull away from runner-up Liverpool (4:18.16) and the rest of the field.
B’ville also finished ninth in the 4×800 (11:54.38) and third in the 4×200, where the same quartet of Wicks, Couchman, Lawrence and Lathrop got a time of 1:52.52, just behind Liverpool (1:51.47) and Skaneateles (1:52.31) at the finish line. Couchman added a 10th-place finish in the high jump.
Maizy Ludden fared best in the distance races, going 10:57.32 in the 3,000-meter run to rise to fourth place. Haleigh Jaquint matched that fourth-place finish in the triple jump, going 31’11 ¼”. Maria Diamond, clearing 7 feet, tied for ninth in the pole vault. Destinee Luciano was 10th in the 55 hurdles in 9.90 seconds.
Claire McMahon (5:30.42) and Emily McComb (5:31.28) were 10th and 11th, respectively, in the 1,500-meter run, while Sarah Rodman was 13th in the 1,000, Anna Demer took 13th in the 300 and Mia Bolton finished 15th in the 600. Marina Blasi got 17th place in the long jump.
Another Central New York Indoor Track Association boys meet took place at OCC Friday and B’ville’s boys team beat a field of 17 others by scoring 116.33 points.
Kellner went 1:26.42 to hold off West Genesee’s Logan McAnulty (1:27.46) in the 600 before Adam Davis won the mile in 4:45.24, beating Conlon, who was second in 4:46.31.
Donhauser went 8.11 seconds, well clear of Westhill-Bishop Ludden’s Xavier Fleurinor (8.50 seconds), to win the 55 hurdles. Austin Catalano unleashed a winning triple jump of 38’9 3/4″ as Mahar, in 6.86 seconds, dashed to second place in the 55 sprint.
Delola (10:28.85) and Keegan (10:57.43) were second and third, respectively, in the 3,200, with Spaudling fifth in the 1,000. The Bees finished second in the 4×400 in 3:40.02 and second in the 4×800 (9:01.76), too.
LaQue, who was in the 4×400, got third place in the 300 (38.95 seconds) and Tyler Luciano was fourth (39.12 seconds). B’ville added a third-place effort in the 4×200 in 1:43.13 as Sak was fifth and Mahar sixth in the long jump. Anselment tied for fourth in the high jump and Mike Lagana was sixth in the pole vault.
