By a scant two-point margin, Westhill-Bishop Ludden’s boys indoor track and field team edged Solvay and won the Division I portion of Wednesday night’s Onondaga High School League championship meet at SRC Arena.
The Warriors finished with 79 points, while the Bearcats took second place with 77 points. Marcellus (36 points) finished seventh as Jordan-Elbridge, in Division II, earned 43 points to finish fourth behind Cazenovia, Skaneateles and Tully.
Xavier Fleurinor helped the Warriors, winning the 600-meter run in 1:32.37 as Solvay’s Jordan Devereaux was third in 1:33.30 and Fleurinor’s teammate, Chris Coates, was fourth in 1:33.83. Fleurinor also was third in the 55-meter hurdles in 8.71 seconds, where Solvay teammates Isaiah Lee and Dan Blanchard were fifth and sixth, respectively.
Westhill-Ludden won the 4×800 as Garnet Remillard, Dan DeMaruro, Adam French and Liam Rodgers posted 9:04.48, pulling away from Fulton (9:07.38) in second place. Remillard also was second in the 3,200-meter run in 10:23.91.
Coates, Tom Howard, Matt McAnaney and Donovan Whipple went 1:40.05 in the 4×200 relay, a close second to Oswego (1:39.27), with Solvay’s Dan Blanchard, Owen Ryan, Lucas Campbell and Josh Chrysler fourth in 1:44.23.
French, McAnaney, Howard and Cody Badman, Tom Howard and put Westhill-Ludden second (3:55.41) to Chittenango (3:49.99) in the 4×400 relay, with Solvay’s Chrysler, Campbell, Nate Kosecki, and Tony Matysuk third in 3:58.33.
Solvay won four field events, two of them by Isaiah Lee. The long jump was a 1-2 Bearcats effort as Isaiah Lee went 19 feet 9 inches, while Garrett Lee was second with 19’7 ½” and Westhill-Ludden’s Alex Kiley was fourth with 19’1 ½”. In the triple jump, Lee went 41’6 ½”, just ahead of Kiley (41’5 ¼”), while Fleurinor (38’3 ¾”) was fifth.
Also, Jacob Hook won the shot put, heaving it 44’8” as Westhill-Ludden teammates Whipple (41’1”) and Jimmy Kernan (39’7”) were third and fourth, respectively.
The Bearcats’ Dan Hatch and Marcellus’ Noah Townsend both cleared 10’6” in the pole vault, but Hatch won because he had fewer misses as Mike Tomoroska (9 feet) finished fourth. Owen Ryan got to fourth place in the triple jump (40’1 ½”) and was fifth in the 55-meter dash in 7.11 seconds.
Not only did Townsend finish second in the pole vault, he also took the runner-up spot in the high jump, clearing 6 feet, topped only by Oswego’s Kyle Crossman (6’1”). Sean Raymond (5’6”) was sixth.
Pat McGuane had the Mustangs’ best finish on the oval, taking third place in the 1,000-meter run in 2:52.02, with Will Coon getting to fourth place in the 300-meter dash in 39.92 seconds after a sixth in the 55 sprint (7.19 seconds).
In the 4×800, McGuane, Joe Riccard, Alex Stopen and Ethan Mosure rose to third place in 9:09.08. Andy Marsh was sixth in the 3,200, with Steve Larison sixth in the mile.
J-E won the OHSL Division II portion of the 4×800, seeing Tyler Jackson, Austin Milton, Ethan Kinney and Zach Rink post a winning time of 9:00.55 to edge Skaneateles (9:01.44) at the wire.
Jackson, in 2:51.74, was second to Cazenovia’s Sean Satchwell (2:44.70) in the 1,000 for the Eagles, and later finished third in the triple jump, going 37’8 ¼”. Brad Marshall threw the shot put 41’8 ½”, second to Skaneateles’ Zach Schneider (43’6 ¼”).
Milton was fourth (1:31.07) in the 600 and Kinney took sixth place. Rink, in 8.89 seconds, took fourth in the 55 hurdles. Hunter Brunelle got to fourth place in the mile (4:57.69). J-E added a fourth-place effort in the 4×400 relay (1:50.89) and a fifth-place finish in the 4×400.
Up in the CNY Counties League National division meet, West Genesee’s Jackson Powell finished third in the 55-meter hurdles in 8.85 seconds, while Sean Relyea was third (39’6 ½”) in the shot put.
Chris Petosa, Mark Dellefave, Russ Graziano and Hunter Buza were fourth (3:49.97) in the 4×400, with Logan McAnulty, Ryan Dunning, Sean Byrnes and Andy Wells fourth in the 4×800. McAnulty finished sixth in the 1,000 (2:46.89) as Dunning was sixth in the 3,200 in 10:51.48.
Javier Monserrate, who paired with Dellefave, Petosa and Sean Relyea to finish fourth in the 4×200 relay (1:41.78), needed 38.80 seconds to finish fifth in the 300. Byrnes ran to seventh in the mile, while Graziano took seventh in the 600 as Sean Relyea was seventh in the 55 sprint.
