Christian Brothers Academy’s track and field teams took part in the Onondaga High School League Liberty division championship meet Wednesday night at Fulton, where it finished third in the girls meet with 84 points behind Skaneatles and Westhill-Bishop Ludden, and took fourth place on the boys side with 59 points.
Anna Schug, winning the girls 100-meter dash in 12.59 seconds, went 1-2 with Kiana Ferguson (12.84 points) to account for 18 points in a single event, and then won again in the 200-meter dash in a school-record 25.76 seconds, more than a second ahead of Skaneateles’ Maddie Peterson (26.81 seconds) at the line.
Then Schug, Ferguson, Ryleigh Peterson and Kate LaCasse set another school mark in the 4×100 relay, winning that race in 50.96 seconds. Another relay win came in the 4×400 as that same CBA quartet posted 4:13.17 to hold off Skaneateles (4:13.53) at the wire.
Freshman Elissa Kempisty surprised many by winning the triple jump, her top attempt of 33 feet 4 ¾ inches well clear of Cazenovia’s Ashley Kent (32’10”) in second place.
Nafysa Williams, who was sixth in the triple jump, rose to second place in the high jump, clearing 5 feet 1 inch, just behind Altmar-Parish-Williamstown’s Kylee Bartlett, who won with 5’2”. Ferguson was fifth (15’4 ¾”) in the long jump, just ahead of Kempisty (15’1 ¾”) in sixth place.
Lucy Person was fourth in the 2,000-meter steeplechase (8:19.8) and Skylar Decker took fifth place in the 100 hurdles in 17.20 seconds, with Kempstey seventh as Decker took eighth in the 400 hurdles and Kat Fletcher was seventh in the 800-meter run. CBA also was fifth in the 4×800 relay in 10:59.64.
In the boys 200, CBA’s Tom SanGiacomo was victorious in 23.27 seconds over Cazenovia’s Alex Devine (23.68 seconds) and the field. SanGiacomo paired with Brett VanPatten, Jaden Mitchell and Jake VanPatten to get to third place in the 4×100 relay in 47.14 seconds.
John Frasier earned a first-place finish in the discus, throwing it 126’2” to beat out Jordan-Elbridge’s Justin Quinn (124’2”) by exactly two feet as Stephen Predmore was sixth (110’5”) following a seventh-place effort in the shot put.
Moving to the 3,200-meter run, Dominic Morganti went 10:22.42 to get second place behind Hannibal’s Jason McFarland (10:22.42). Morganti got to fifth place in the mile in 4:51.31, with Lou Moran (4:53.25) sixth as Moran later took fifth (11:39.2) in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
In the 4×800, Morganti, Nikhil Reddy, Malachi Emanuel and Brendan Keeney finished third in a time of 8:50.56, with Keeney, Reddy, Emmanuel and Jack Carey fourth (3:46.20) in the 4×400. Carey, in 54.54 seconds, made it to fourth place in the 400 sprint.
Pat Carey was fifth in the high jump (5’6”) and sixth in the 110 high hurdles in 17.48 seconds, while Keeney was sixth (2:08.82) and Reddy seventh in the 800. Dan O’Connor (37’6 ½”) and Pat Carey were seventh and eighth, respectively, in the triple jump.
