Since just four teams were involved, Thursday’s CNY Counties League National division track and field championship meets at Baldwinsville’s Pelcher-Arcaro Stadium turned into yet another neighborhood duel between Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse.
Both times, the Warriors prevailed, getting 192 points to edge the Northstars (189 points) in the boys meet and scoring 193 points in the girls meet to get away from C-NS (137 points) by a more comfortable margin.
Brandon Mayfield beat C-NS’s Matt Kilian, 11.41 seconds to 11.46, in the 100-meter dash, with Donald Frost third in 11.67 seconds and the Northstars’ Ryan Massena fourth. Moving to the 200-meter dash, Mayfield won again over Killian, 23.44 seconds to 23.67, with Peter Gonzalez (23.90 seconds) snatching third place.
Mayfield, Frost, Nazir Murray and Khalil Wales won the 4×100 relay in 44.93 seconds, with C-NS third in 46.06 seconds.
Dylan McCarthy (1:59.73) and Nick LeClair (2:01.30) went 1-2 in the 800-meter run, C-NS’s Evan Tracy (2:03.27) settling for fourth place, and the 3,200-meter run went the same, Connor Buck (10:05.39) edging Ben Petrella (10:05.51) as Sam Barber was fourth for C-NS.
Petrella, in 4:26.56, beat out West Genesee’s David Leff (4:28.89) in the mile as Buck was fourth in 4:32.30. Dan Muldoon, in 50.51 seconds, pulled away from C-NS’s Jared George (52.06 seconds) to win the 400-meter dash, with Mike Mahan third in 52.07 seconds.
Muldoon, McCarthy, LeClair and Steve Schulz went 8:11.20 to win the 4×800 relay, where C-NS was third, before a 4×400 relay where LeClair, Muldoon, Gonzalez and Mahan went 3:28.18 to hold off the Northstars’ quartet of George, Allen Garnes, Zach Kennedy and Ed Mahana (3:32.29) in second place.
As it had done before, C-NS did well in field events. George Reader won three of them, clearing 5’8” as Nick Antonello topped 5’6” for a 1-2 Northstars finish in the high jump, and Reader won the long jump, going 19’10 ¾” to beat Mayfield (18’7”) and teammate Billy Moore (17’7 ¾”) before a winning triple jump of 40’3 ¼” beat out Frost (38’9 ¾”) for the top spot as Mahana finished fourth.
C-NS also saw Mahana sweep to victories in the 110 high hurdles (15.24 seconds) and 400-meter hurdles (58.14 seconds), each time with B’ville’s Evan Donhauser in second place. Andrew Bearkland won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:01.7 over McCarthy (10:08.6) and Schulz (10:30.1).
Mark Hentges clearing 13 feet in the pole vault to beat Liverpool’s David Lewis and teammate Ryan Bristow, each of whom cleared 11’6”.
Tyler Mosher was second (44’10”) and Ross Mathewson third (43’9 ¼”) in the shot put, with Mathewson second (120’11”) and Logan Lickfield third (120’1”) in the discus.
Liverpool’s Ore Akinpelu won three races, starting with a top time of 12.77 seconds in the 100 sprint to beat Sasha Pulaski (13.17 seconds) as Tymaiah Harper (13.43 seconds) got fourth place.
Then, in the 400 hurdles, Akinpelu won in 1:04.97, with Amelia Johnson fifth and C-NS’s Brittany House fourth, and Akinpelu dominated the 200, winning in 26.62 seconds as Harper was fifth.
In between those races, Akinpelu, paired with Harper, Danelle Sims and Amelia Johnson, went 51.50 seconds to claim the 4×100 relay as the Northstars fell back to fourth place. Sims was third (1:00.16) behind Yasmeen Griffin (1:00.16) in the 400 sprint, with Griffin second and C-NS’s Marie LeRoy in fifth place.
Alexis Bittel won the 100-meter hurdles for the Warriors, going 16.64 seconds to beat House (17.54 seconds) and Cheyanna Colin (16.96 seconds), later adding a second-place triple jump of 32’11 ¾” and a third-place long jump of 15’2 ¼”.
In the 1,500-meter run, Juliana Basla (4:56.29) and Abby McNamara (5:01.24) went 1-2 for Liverool, with the Northstars’ Taylor Parry (5:14.19) in fifth place. The 3,000-meter run saw Basla, in 10:52.79, again hold off McNamara (10:56.73), but Parry would win the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7:51.8, with Jillian Stagnitta second in 8:02.7 for Liverpool
Javielle Fanizzi won the long jump for C-NS, going 16’ 7 ¾. Fanizzi also was second (13.17 seconds) to Akinpelu in the 100 sprint and third in the triple jump (32’6 ½”), beating out Shayla Webb (32’2”), while Jilliann Norris was second in the 800 in 2:23.67, with Liverpool’s Morgan Chewning-Kulick fourth and Kristina Moore in fifth place.
C-NS’s Nicole Herringshaw, by clearing 5’1”, edged out Liverpool’s Megan Milazzo (5 feet) to win the high jump, but the Warriors countered with Kelley Townley topping 9 feet to win the pole vault, leaving the Northstars’ Whitney Hotchkiss (7’6”) in third place.
Also, Sarah Lavalley gave the Warriors a victory in the discus, throwing it 96’8” to beat Herringshaw’s total of 91’3” as Erin Lavalley finished fourth. Destiny Monica had a second-place shot put toss of 32’8 ¼”, where the Warriors’ JeNiece Gallishaw (30’9”) was fourth and C-NS’s Kierrah Butler was fifth.
Parry, Norris, Annina Marullo, Taylor Parry and Madison Gross were second (9:55.82) to West Genesee (9:46.39) in the 4×800 relay, with Liverpool third. The Warriors had Chewning-Kulick, Griffin, Sims and Natalie Kurz get second place in the 4×400 in 4:11.92, with C-NS fourth.
