Now all the preliminaries are done, and it’s time for area indoor track and field teams to gear up for next week’s Section III championships, to take place Wednesday (Class AA and A) and Thursday (Class B and C/D) at SRC Arena.
Before that, though, the girls teams had one more regular-season meet, the George Constantino Invitational, and saw West Genesee earn 33 points to finish fifth and Westhill-Bishop Ludden get 31 points to take sixth place. Fayetteville-Manlius (102 points) again took the top spot.
Carly Benson struck again for WG, the freshman covering 1,000 meters in three minutes, 0.64 seconds, pulling away from the field as Westhill-Ludden’s Annibel Coolican finished third in 3:08.56, later adding a sixth-place finish in the high jump.
Megan Delia gave the Wildcats a third-place time of 1:41.66 in the 600-meter run, with Westhill-Ludden’s Genny Corcoran 10th, also pairing with Maria Matkoski, Valerie Pirro and Carly Benson to get third place in the 4×200 relay in 1:52.23.
WG’s Maria Matkoski took fourth in the 300-meter dash in exactly 45 seconds, while Lindsay Weaver was sixth (11:43.97) in the 3,000-meter run, an event where Marcellus’ Lillianna Cushman got 10th place.
Westhill-Ludden’s Katherine Doherty won the pole vault by clearing 8 feet 9 inches with fewer misses than F-M’s Savannah Pidkaminy, with Doherty’s teammate, Noelle Coolican, gaining third place when she topped 8’6”.
Also for Westhill-Ludden, Jayanna Monds was sixth in the 55-meter dash in 7.74 seconds and helped the Warriors take sixth in the 4×200. Noelle Coolican, Carmella Carr, Kendra MacCaull and Maura McNaney got to fourth place in the 4×800 relay in 10:58.17, with Jordan-Elbridge sixth (11 minutes flat) and WG eighth, as Westhill-Ludden added a ninth-place finish in the 4×400 relay.
Solvay’s Katie Harrington earned third place in the high jump, clearing 4’10”, and was ninth in the triple jump. The Bearcats’ Samantha Waters was fourth in the shot put, heaving it 31’1 ¼”, with WG’s J’Nazia Anderson (30’10 ¼”) close behind in fifth place.
J-E’s best finish came in the 1,500-meter run, where Abby Gugel was third in 4:51.22, ahead of WG’s Kendall Dombroske in fourth place (5:06.45) and Westhill-Ludden’s Alaina Kenny (5:09.31) in fifth place. Julie Hines placed seventh for the Eagles in the 300, with Madi Hart ninth.
Back on Jan. 23, the boys indoor track teams had an invitational meet at SRC Arena, just two days after the Fred Kirschenheiter Memorial, and without a lot of the large-school powers on hand, there was plenty of top finishes.
Marcellus’ Noah Townsend took the high jump, clearing 5 feet 10 inches with fewer misses than Mexico’s Justin Gardner, while teammate Sean Raymond (5’6”) tied for fourth place.
The Mustangs also won the 4×800, seeing Alex Stopen, Joe Riccardi, Ethan Mosure and Pat McGuane post 9:01.73 to edge Baldwinsville (9:01.76) by inches at the line. Jordan-Elbridge’s quartet of Austin Milton, Tyler Jackson, Ethan Kinney and Zach Rink was third in 9:08.34, with West Genesee fourth in 9:19.19.
WG’s Logan McAnulty took second place in the 600-meter run in 1:27.46, trailing only B’ville’s Arden Kellner (1:26.42). Sean Byrnes was fourth in the 3,200-meter run in 10:57.43, with Marcellus teammate Michael Brown (11:36.15) and Steve Larison (11:36.70) fifth and sixth, respectively.
J-E’s best finish came in the triple jump, where Jackson was second with a top leap of 37 feet 5 inches behind B’ville’s Austin Catalano (38’9 ¾”). Solvay’s Lucas Campbell was sixth.
Also for the Eagles, Hunter Brunelle was third in the 1,000-meter run in 2:56.41, just ahead of WG’s Ryan Dunning (2:57.46) in fourth place and Westhill-Ludden’s Adam French in sixth.
Jackson, Milton, Brendan Bourque and Ethan Kinney took third place in the 4×400 relay in 3:49.57, with WG getting fifth place in 3:55.12. Milton was fifth in the 300-meter dash in 39.28 seconds, ahead of Xavier Fleurinor (39.51 seconds) in sixth place.
Westhill-Ludden saw Fleurinor finish second (8.50 seconds) to B’ville’s Evan Donhauser (8.11 seconds) in the 55 hurdles, with J-E’s Zach Rink third in 8.74 seconds and WG’s Jackson Powell (8.91 seconds), and Solvay’s Josh Chrysler getting sixth place. The Warriors’ Garnet Remillard finish third in the mile in 4:47.43, with teammate Dan DeMauro seventh.
Solvay’s Jacob Hook threw the shot put 42’3 ½”, finishing second place. Westhill-Ludden’s Donovan Whipple was third, heaving it 40’5 ½”, with teammate Jimmy Kernan (39’4 ½”) fifth and J-E’s Brad Marshall (39’8 ½”) between them in fourth place.
In the pole vault, the Bearcats’ Dan Hatch cleared 10’6”, tied with Phoenix’s Chris Fisk on top, but with more misses, Hatch took second place as Westhill-Ludden’s Bryan King was third, topping 10 feet, with Marcellus’ Tom Dailey (9’6”) and Mike Abbott (9 feet) fourth and fifth, respectively.
The Mustangs’ Kerin Linder was sixth in the shot put, while Will Coon was eighth in the 55 sprint and ninth in the 300, with Whipple taking ninth place in the 55 and helping Tom Howard, Chris Pullano and Cody Badman get fourth place in the 4×200 relay (1:44.46) ahead of WG in fifth place.
