Strong efforts, especially in the relays, helped propel Baldwinsville’s boys indoor track and field team to a fourth-place finish in Wednesday night’s Section III Class AA championship meet at Onondaga Community College’s SRC Arena.
The Bees picked up 61 points, nearly catching Liverpool (65 points) for third place. Fayetteville-Manlius won with 117 points and Cicero-North Syracuse (75 points) was second.
B’ville won the first relay, the 4×400, by seeing Andrew Carter, Arden Kellner, Brennan LaQue and Kieran Sheriden go three minutes, 36.06 seconds to pull clear of F-M (3:39.22) and the field.
Later, in the 4×800 relay, Kellner, who was third in the 600-meter run in 1:27.22, joined Dan Conlon, Denis Keegan and eighth-grader Adam Davis to help B’ville take second place (8:28.58) behind Liverpool (8:21.28) in the 4×200 relay.
To cap off the night, B’ville was second in the 4×200 relay as LaQue, Sam Mahar, Evan Donhauser and Alex Anselment went 1:39.22 and only trailed Rome Free Academy’s time of 1:35.24.
On his own, Donhauser gained an individual title in the 55-meter dash, posting 8.09 seconds to pull away from C-NS’s Ed Mahana, who was second in 8.33 seconds. Anselment took third place in the high jump, clearing 5 feet 6 inches.
Austin Catalano contended in the triple jump for B’ville, going 39’7 ¼” to finish third as his teammate, Martin Sak, was fifth with 38’9 ¾”. Mahar got to fourth place in the 55-meter dash in 6.84 seconds, just behind Nottingham’s Shaheed Dickerson, who won in 6.77 seconds.
Dan Conlon was eighth in the 1,000-meter run as Sak (18’10 ¾”) and Sam Mahar (18’6”) were seventh and eighth, respectively, in the long jump, and Tyler Luciano finished 10th.
Meanwhile, in the girls Section III Class AA meet, also at SRC Arena, B’ville had 33 points and got to fifth place, far off the pace that F-M, with its winning total of 122.16 points, would establish.
Here, too, the Bees had a strong relay effort in the 4×400, where Hailey Couchman, Marissa Lathrop, Katie Wicks and Rebecca Lawrence gained second place in 4:10.32, just behind Liverpool, who prevailed in 4:08.39.
Individually, Couchman got to third place in the 300 in 43.35 seconds, and also was third in the long jump, going 16’7 ½” as C-NS’s Javielle Fanizzi won with 17’9 ¾”.
Wicks was fourth (1:43.16) and Lathrop sixth (1:43.43) in the 600. Lathrop, Wicks, Lawrence and Anna Demer were sixth in the 4×200 relay (1:56.32), while Emily McComb, Claire McMahon, Mia Bolton and Patricia Conlan were sixth (11:03.53) in the 4×800.
Maizy Ludden finished fifth in the 3,000-meter run in 10:54.81, while Lawrence made it to sixth place in the 55 sprint in 7.77 seconds. Destinee Luciano was sixth (9.74 seconds) and Haleigh Jaquint seventh (9.84 seconds) in the 55 hurdles, but Jaquint fared better in the triple jump, unleashing a top attempt of 32’6 ¾” to finish fifth.
