Fresh off their combined victory in the May 1 CBA-Brother Basilian Invitational, the Skaneateles track and field teams found more success when league action resumed.
Hosting Hannibal last Wednesday afternoon at Hyatt Stadium, the Lakers claimed both sides of the meet, prevailing 96-44 on the girls side and beating the Warriors 78-63 on the boys side.
During that girls meet, Angela Krause won twice to ignite a sweep of the field events, going 15 feet 4 inches in the long jump and 32’6” in the triple jump.
Mia Grasso cleared 4’8” in the high jump, with Keely Gregg topping 7 feet in the pole vault. Katherine Carlile threw the shot put 83’9” and Makayla Dickensen won the shot put, tossing it 24’ ½”.
On the oval, Kaitlyn Neal was victorious in the 1,500-meter run in 5:18.3 and the 3,000-meter run in 12:10.1, with Nicole Bonocore first in the 400 hurdles in 1:15.3.
Grasso, Olivia Gage, Juila Willcox and Cecilia Marrinan took the 4×400 relay in 4:27 flat after Willcox won the 800-meter run in 2:28.5 and Gage took the 200-meter dash in 26.9 seconds. In the 4×100, Gage, Grasso, Marrinan and Maddie Peterson roared to a time of 50.3 seconds.
A glorious weekend would follow, capped by the boys Lakers winning the Weedsport Invitational with 101 points, blowing away 17 other teams as Jordan-Elbridge was second with 61 points.
So much of the damage was done by Skaneateles in relay events. Connor Hill, Kai Soderberg, Tommy Hagen and Griffin Lawson were victorious in the 4×800 in 3:45.12, well clear of J-E (3:49.39) and the field, as Soderberg, Zach Blair, Jon Metz and James Hackler won the 4×400 in 3:53.48.
Blair and Soderberg, joined by Jake Peterson and Max Messie, were second (48.17 seconds) to Westmoreland (46.62 seconds in the 4×100 relay, with Joe Capozza, Stephen Ciaccio, Jon Metz and Sam McClintic going 9:40.29 to get second place behind Weedsport (9:16.85) in the 4×800.
Hill would speed to victory in 49.57 seconds in the 400 sprint as Griffin Lawson (50.93 seconds) made it 1-2 finish. Messie won the 400 hurdles in 1:01.50, nearly a second ahead of Port Byron’s Dante Benson (1:02.41).
Hagen went 16.74 seconds to win the 110 high hurdles, where none of his challengers broke the 17-second mark, and also was second the 200 in 24.23 seconds. Hackler was second in the 800 in 2:10.36.
Though mostly quiet in field events, Andrew Weiss changed that when he won the long jump, going 17’9 ¼”to finish half a foot ahead of the field. Chase Corcoran was seventh in the discus, throwing it 101’8”, with Dalton Carter seventh (9 feet) in the pole vault.
A day earlier, in the John Arcaro Invitational at Baldwinsville, the Skaneateles girls had 86 points and tied the host Bees for second place behind Tully, who finished on top with 94 points.
Skaneateles won two of three relays, starting in the 4×100, where Marrinan, Krause, Laurel Parker and Amanda Wetmore hit the finish line in 51.41 seconds to hold off B’ville (51.88 seconds) for the top spot.
Then, in the 4×800, Willcox, Neal, Liz Dwyer and Natalie Condon posted 10:13.36, well clear of runner-up Cazenovia (10:31.72) and the field. Willcox would, in the 800, nearly prevail, going 2:20.71, second to Tully’s Ashleigh Crawford, who won in 2:20.41.
Peterson, in the 200-meter final, got a time of 27.15 seconds, edging out Gage (27.19 seconds) for that runner-up spot as Indian River’s Lydia Torres won in 26.96 seconds. Wetmore was third (13.19 seconds) and Parker fourth (13.27 seconds) in the 100 sprint for 10 more points.
Finan Malcolm ran the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 8:31.19, claiming third place, with Grasso getting third place in the 400 hurdles in 1:10.76. Neal took third in the 1,500 in 4:54.11, while Roberts got fourth in the 400 sprint in 1:01.14.
Carlile rose to third place in the discus, heaving it 80’11”. Gregg , clearing 8 feet, made it to fourth place in the pole vault, while Krause finished fifth in the triple jump, going 31’7”. Aubreah Lynn tied for 10th in the high jump.
