Track and field teams from Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool all gathered at Bragman Stadium Wednesday with the rest of the Section III Class AA sides for a pair of sectional meets that would produce plenty of strong results from the local sides.
In the boys meet, C-NS was second (116.16 points) and Liverpool third (91.33 points) third, with the girls Warriors also third with 74 points, just ahead of the Northstars (70 points) as Fayetteville-Manlius claimed both sectional team titles.
Jason Hughes won the boys pentathlon for C-NS, with 2,505 points to hold off Liverpool’s Jacob Rowell, who was second with 2,392 points. Brittany House made it a pentathlon sweep for the Northstars by getting 2,293 points as the Warriors’ Alexis Bittel (2,107 points) was fourth.
Among C-NS’s individuals, Ed Mahana was the lone double winner, going 15.60 seconds to prevail in the 110 high hurdles and pulling away to win the 400 hurdles in 58.27 seconds, where no one else broke the one-minute mark and Ryan Williams (1:04.04) was sixth.
In the pole vault, Mark Hentges topped 13 feet 6 inches to beat the Warriors’ David Lewis (12 feet) as three other C-NS athletes – Mitchell Brown (12 feet), Ryan Bristow (11’6”) and James Dwyer (11 feet) – rounded out the top five.
George Reader was second in the high jump, clearing 6 feet behind Auburn’s Kavon Hunt (6’2”) as Nick Antonello, Joe Antonello and Liverpool’s Nate Guarente tied for fourth. Reader went 40’9 ½” in the triple jump to finish second behind Central Square’s Erich Metz (42’10 ½”), with Mahana in sixth place, and Reader took fourth place in the long jump, going 19’7 ½”.
Ben Petrella finished second to F-M’s Bryce Millar in the mile, 4:25.93 to Millar’s 4:24.65 as Dylan McCarthy was third (4:27.98) and C-NS’s Andrew Bearkland fourth (4:28.07).
It happened again in the 3,200-meter run, where Petrella posted 9:30.66 and Millar 9:28.84 ahead of Connor Buck (9:51.07) in fifth place. Bearkland also took second (10:04.87) to another F-M runner, Riley Hughes (10:01.84), in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Stephen Schulz, Dan Muldoon, Nick LeClair and Dylan McCarthy were second (8:10.04) to F-M (8:03.59) in the 4×800 relay, with C-NS getting fourth place in 8:40.95. It was closer in the 4×400, with LeClair, Muldoon, Peter Gonzalez and Mike Mahan went 3:24.28, but F-M won in 3:24.08 as C-NS had Mahana, Zach Kennedy, Jared George and Matt Williams finish third in 3:33.44.
Muldoon finished fourth in the 400-meter dash (50.96 seconds), edged out by Mahan (50.85 seconds) in third place, while LeClair was fourth in the 800-meter run in 1:59.63 and McCarthy (2:01.95) got to sixth place.
Donald Frost, Khalil Wailes, Brandon Mayfield and Nazir Murray were third in the 4×100 relay in 44.97 seconds, with C-NS sixth. Murray, on his own, was fourth in the 110 high hurdles in 17 seconds flat, while Mayfield was third in the 100-meter dash in 11.65 seconds and sixth in the 200-meter dash. C-NS’s Matt Kilian and Ryan Massena were fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 100.
Tyler Mosher threw the shot put 46 feet to finish fourth, with Ross Mathewson sixth (43’3 ½”), as Logan Lickfield was fourth (121’3”) and Mathewson sixth (117’8”) in the discus.
During the girls AA meet, C-NS won two field events. Nicole Herringshaw cleared 5’1” and claimed the high jump, where Liverpool’s Megan Milazzo was fifth (4’10”), while Javielle Fanizzi beat the field in the long jump by going 18’3 ¾” before finishing fourth (34’8 ½”) in the triple jump. Destiny Monica added a fourth-place shot put toss of 33’10 ¾”.
C-NS saw its 4×800 relay team of Jilliann Norris, Annina Marullo, Madison Gross and Taylor Parry get second place in 9:53.10, two spots ahead of Liverpool’s 10:04 flat as F-M (9:41.83) won.
Marullo got to fourth place in the 3,000-meter run in 11:22.07, beating out Warrior teammates Abby McNamara (11:23.32) and Juliana Basla (11:31.37), while Parry was third in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7:55.39 and Liverpool’s Jillian Stagnitta was sixth.
Liverpool’s 4×100 quartet of Ore Akinpelu, Danelle Sims, Amelia Johnson and Tymaiah Harper was second in 50.73 seconds, just behind Rome Free Academy (50.14 seconds) at the line. The Warriors also were fourth (4:07.69) in the 4×400 relay.
Basla, in the 800, earned second place in 2:22.31, with Morgan Chewning-Kulick (2:29.30) edging Kristina Moore (2:29.43) for sixth place. Yasmeen Griffin finished second in the 400 sprint in 1:00.16 behind Corcoran’s Patrice Wililams (56.73 seconds), also taking third place in the triple jump (35’4”) ahead of Fanizzi. Cheyanna Colin was fourth in the 100 hurdles in 17.28 seconds.
Kelly Townley finished fourth in the pole vault for the Warriors, clearing 9’3”, while Sarah Lavalley threw the discus 97’7” and also took fourth place.
