Even though it was competing in familiar surroundings at Pelcher-Arcaro Stadium, each of Baldwinsville’s track and field team still found themselves chasing Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse during Thursday’s CNY Counties League National division championship meet.
The girls Bees picked up 112 points and the boys Bees had 111 points. Each time, that meant a third-place finish, with C-NS second and Liverpool managing to sweep the league titles.
B’ville’s girls team won three different events. One came in the 400 sprint, where Rachael Miller, in 59.43 seconds, held off Liverpool’s Yasmeen Griffin (1:00.16) as Katie Wicks (1:02.12) finished sixth. Haleigh Jaquint dominated the triple jump, going 34’11 ¾”, a full two feet ahead of Liverpool’s Alexis Bittel by the time that event was done.
Then Miller paired with Anna Demer, Marissa Lathrop and Tina Bartelli to post 4:06.13 in the 4×400 relay and win that event, too, beating Liverpool (4:11.92) by more than five seconds.
Marissa Lathrop ran the 800 in 2:23.67, the same time as C-NS’s Jilliann Norris, but Norris took second place by fractions over Lathrop as Sarah Rodman finished seventh. Kelley Hull took fourth place in the 1,500-meter run (5:10.25) and Emily McComb was sixth.
Hailey Couchman, Anna Demer, Brittany LaRock and Lauren Brushingham were second in the 4×100 in 52.51 seconds to Liverpool’s 51.50 seconds, with LaRock clearing 9 feet in the pole vault, second to Liverpool’s Kelley Townley as Amber White got sixth place.
Couchman, with a long jump of 16’4 ¼”, was second to C-NS’s Javielle Fanizzi (16’7 ¾”) as Jordyn Boutilier was fifth. Also, Couchman got third place in the high jump, clearing 4’8” as Kourtnee Allen (4’6”) got to fifth place, while Demer was fourth (28.01 seconds) and Laura Kick sixth (28.64 seconds) in the 200.
Claire McMahan went 11:18.85 in the 3,000-meter run to get fifth place, also joining Mia Bolton, Patricia Conlan and Nadine Dickter to finish fourth in the 4×800 relay.
Dickter was third (8:04.9) and Elizabetth Fawwaz fourth (8:05.7) in the 2,000-meter steeplechase as Adrianna Straughter took sixth place in the 100-meter hurdles and Anna Miller was sixth in the shot put, throwing it 28’1 ¼”,and Kaitlynn Adsitt was sixth (75’1”) in the discus.
Moving to the boys side, B’ville did not win any events, but got close several times.
Evan Donhauser went 15.41 seconds in the 110 high hurdles, second to C-NS’s Ed Mahana (15.24 seconds). Sam Smith, in the 400 hurdles, went 59.72 seconds, and also was second to Mahana (58.14 seconds) as Kenny Stehle was third in 1:01.81. Donhauser, Martin Sak, Tyler Luciano and Calvin Tanguay took second place (46.01 seconds) behind Liverpool (44.93 seconds) in the 4×100 relay.
Sak, on his own, got to third place in the long jump, going 18 feet 8 ¼ inches, with Austin Catalano sixth (16’7 ¾”) as Sak also took fourth in the 200-meter dash in 24.07 seconds, with Tanguay (24.29 seconds) sixth. With a triple jump of 37’11 ¾”, Sak beat out Catalano (37’8”) to finish fourth again.
Brennan LaQue, Evan Vannatta, Denis Keegan and Joey Frink were second in the 4×800 relay in 8:15.80 behind Liverpool’s 8:11.20, with LaQue, Vannatta, Andrew Carter and Kieran Sheridan to go 3:33.63 in the 4×400 and finish third. Dan Conlan took third place in the mile in 4:31.25, where Renny Simone (4:55.24) was sixth.
Frink was third in the 3,200-meter run in 10:08.18 and Colin Spaulding (10:39.41) was fifth, while Vannatta took third in the 400-meter dash in 53.34 seconds. LaQue was third (2:02.15) and Keegan fifth (2:05.48) in the 800-meter run. Ryan Delola (10:33.8) and Mike Boyce (10:38.9) were fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Dan Shorney got to fourth place in the pole vault, clearing 10 feet with fewer misses than teammate Brad Krahl in fifth place.
Alex Anselement and Nate Guarente tied for fifth in the high jump, each clearing 5’4”. Jake Wicks was fifth (37’ ½”) and Caleb Carter sixth (36’6 ¼”) in the shot put, while Ethan Plouffe threw the discus 98’7” for his own sixth-place finish.
There wasn’t much time for rest, since on Wednesday both B’ville sides would head to C-NS’s Bragman Stadium to compete in the Section III Class AA championship meets.
