Finding success in many different disciplines but doing especially well in field events, the combined Westhill-Bishop Ludden boys track and field team was able to hold off Solvay to win Friday’s Section III Class B-1 championship meet at Canastota High School.
With 118 points, the Warriors finished ahead of the Bearcats’ 92 points in second place, while Jordan-Elbridge, in the B-2 portion, took third place with 75 points as Clinton (149.5 points) edged Adirondack (146 points) for the top spot.
Jordan Roland won one more time for Westhill-Ludden, clearing 6 feet to prevail in the high jump, where Donovan Whipple was fourth (5’4”) and Solvay’s Nate Gardner (5’2”) was sixth. Contending in the triple jump, Roland went 39’7 ½”, but was second to the Bearcats’ Isaiah Lee, who won with 42’4 ¾” as his teammate, Owen Ryan, was third with 38’11”.
Whipple got his own victory in the shot put, heaving it 43’8” to beat a field that included Solvay’s John Dippold, who was fourth with 41’7 ½”, and teammate Jimmy Kernan (39’11 ½”) in fifth place.
Garnet Remillard took third in the mile in 4:39.08, but improved to second in the 3,200-meter run in 10:41.88, ahead of teammates Alex Ladstatter (10:46.36) and Dan DeMauro (10:50.86) in the next two spots, and Remillard rose to second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:48.59, with Ladstatter fifth and Solvay’s Tony Matysuk fourth in 11:04.99.
Also for the Warriors, Xavier Fleurinor, sixth in the triple jump, was second (16.49 seconds) in the 110 high hurdles, ahead of Roland (16.66 seconds) in third place as Solvay’s Isaiah Lee was sixth. Roland got third place in the long jump, going 18’8 ¾”.
Will Ringwood, with 2,308 points, was second, just behind South Jefferson’s Luke Gaede (2,339 points), in the pentathlon, with Solvay’s Nick Ferri (1,874 points) in fifth. Bryan King got fourth place in the pole vault, clearing 11’6”, with the Bearcats’ Dan Hatch (11 feet) fifth.
Mike Robinson, Cody Badman, Adam French and Steven Bailey put Westhill-Ludden second (8:46.68) in the 4×800 relay ahead of Solvay’s quartet of Matysuk, Jonah Cavallo, Colton Francemone and Jordan Devereaux, who were third in 8:58.59.
Francemone did prevail, though, in the 400-meter hurdles, going 1:00.72 to hold off Skaneateles’ Tommy Hagen (1:01.7.4) as Matsyuk (1:02.57) was fourth. Cavallo, who was seventh in the pole vault, took third place in the 800-meter run in 2:03.95, with Bailey fourth (2:05.09) for the Warriors.
Cavallo, Francemone, Devereaux and Matsyuk were third in the 4×400 relay in 3:36.84, again with Westhill-Ludden (3:47.31) trailing in fifth place.
Solvay saw Jadin Jackson throw the discus 119’11” to get third place and Robert Stafford heave it 115’1” to finish fourth. In the long jump, Owen Ryan went 19’2” to finish third, with Garrett Lee and Isaiah Lee both going 18 7 ¼” to earn fifth and sixth, respectively.
Devereaux, Lee, Mark Carpenter and Logan Kelly were third in the 4×100 in 46.39 seconds, beating out the Warriors (47.77 seconds) in fourth place. Ryan added a fourth-place time of 11.82 seconds in the 100-meter dash and a sixth (24.11 seconds) in the 200-meter dash.
Meanwhile, in the Class B-2 sectional meet, Jordan-Elbridge had a winner in its pentathlon – Tyler Jackson, whose 2,340 points edged Clinton’s Matt Orlando (2,321 points) as Jackson made up 182 points in the final event, the 1,500-meter run, to snatch the title.
Also, Nathan Hollis beat the field in the 800, his time of 2:02.47 enough to get away from Adirondack’s Ryan O’Rourke (2:04.69) and the field.
The Eagles swept the throwing events as Justin Quinn, sixth in the shot put, had a top discus toss of 122’3” to edge Adirondack’s Tyler Chase (121’6”). Brad Marshall prevailed in the shot put, heaving it 42’5 ¼” to beat Chase (41’5 ½”), by nearly a foot.
In the high jump, Hollis cleared 5’8” and got third place as he, along with Ethan Kinney, Austin Milton and Pat Fordyce, were second (3:36.98), inches behind Clinton (3:36.94), in a tight 4×400 relay.
Kinney rose to third place in the 400 sprint in 54.04 seconds. Zach Rink was fourth in the 110 high hurdles in 17.21 seconds and sixth in the 400 hurdles, with Yuya Ota seventh.
Kinney, Milton, Dan Weichert and Anthony Ortiz went 47.01 seconds in the 4×100 to finish third. J-E also was fifth in the 4×800 relay as Hugh Schader, Brett Siddle, Jared Alpha and Brendan Bourque posted 9:44.12. Bourque finished eighth in the 3,000 steeplechase in 11:52.75.
