Even with strong contributions across the board and wins in two of the three relays, the Skaneateles girls track and field team still had to settle for at third-place finish when it went to Marcellus for last Wednesday’s Onondaga High School League Liberty division championship meet.
The Lakers had 95 points, but Westhill-Bishop Ludden, with 117 points, grabbed the runner-up spot, and both of them looked up at the Lakers from Cazenovia, who streaked to the team title with 146 points.
Prevailing in the 4×100, Skaneateles saw Amanda Wetmore, Cecilia Marrinan, Katelyn Ellison and Angela Krause go 50.54 seconds to blow past runner-up Jordan-Elbridge (51.92 seconds) and the field.
Moving to the 4×400, the Lakers prevailed again when Ellison, joining up with Olivia Gage, Shannon Roberts and Maddie Peterson, roared to a time of 4:09.29, which was comfortably ahead of second-place Christian Brothers Academy (4:13.98) and the field.
Skaneateles also had a strong finish in the 4×800 relay, where Julia Willcox, Lydia Parker, Natalie Condon and Finan Malcolm got third place in 10:24.21. But Willcox did better in the 800-meter run, winning in 2:23.48, more than six seconds ahead of Cazenovia’s Meggie Hart (2:29.62) at the line. Condon was fourth in the 3,000-meter run in 11:38.91.
The Lakers went 1-2 in the 400-meter dash when Shannon Roberts prevailed in 1:00.53, just ahead of Mia Grasso, who was second in 1:00.73. In the 200-meter dash, Maddie Peterson was second in 26.80 seconds to CBA’s Anna Schug (26.46) as Marrinan got third place in 26.92 seconds.
Wetmore took second place in the 100-meter dash in 12.97 seconds, inches behind Marcellus’ Mary-Catherine Coon (12.92 seconds) as Laurel Parker was seventh in 13.54 seconds. Brady Iles got second place in the 400 hurdles in 1:11.09, trailing only Hannibal’s Tayler Dence, who won in 1:09.50.
In field events, Katherine Carlile was fourth in the discus, throwing it 78’4” as Ali Grant (73’9”) finished seventh. Emma Bohrer threw the shot put 26’1 ½” for sixth place as Nieve Morse was 13th. Mia Grasso got a sixth-place triple jump of 14’11 ½”, with Krause (14’ ¾”) ninth as she also got seventh place in the triple jump with 30’10”, two spots ahead of Wetmore (29’2 ½”).
Lyda Buck cleared 7’6” for sixth place in the pole vault and was ninth in the high jump, topping 4’6” as Grant finished eighth in the pole vault. Malcolm was eighth in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 8:57.84.
On its way to 19 points and a 10th-place finish in the boys OHSL Liberty meet, Skaneateles did see Chase Corcoran win the discus, unleashing a top throw of 135 feet 9 inches to easily surpass runner-up Takota Jacobson (Altmar-Parish-Williamstown), who was second with 128’7”.
Brahm Malcolm contended in the pentathlon.
Winning the first event, the 110 high hurdles, and then adding a second in the long jump and third in the 800-meter run, Malcolm eventually earned 2,365 points, edging Westhill-Ludden’s Andrew Hoyne (2,364) by a single point for second place. Solvay’s Garrett Lee won with 2,647 points.
Zach Blair, Max Moss, Jon Metz and Matt Leveroni were sixth in the 4×100 in 47.76 seconds, while Calvin Blackwell, Alex Wulff and Joe Capozza joined Leveroni for an eighth-place time of 3:50.52 in the 4×400.
Individually, Sam McClintic (2:15.52) beat out Wulff (2:15.72) for seventh place in the 800, while Chris Niebuhr was seventh in the 3,200-meter run in exactly 11 minutes.
Alex Vanriper went 35’1 ¾” for ninth place in the triple jump after finishing 13th in the long jump. Capozza needed 24.73 seconds for 10th place in the 200 as Metz was 14th and Leveroni 15th in the 400 sprint. Ryan Willcox was 15th in the high jump.
Each of the Skaneateles sides go to Westhill this Thursday for the Section III Class B-1 championship meet – but only after it made some history at last Saturday’s Cicero-North Syracuse Invitational.
In the girls 4×400, the quartet of Grasso, Gage, Roberts and Peterson broke the four-minute mark and, with a time of three minutes, 58.81 seconds, set a Skaneateles school record, winning the event by nearly three seconds over runner-up CBA, who had 4:01.55.
Corcoran also won for the boys Lakers, unleashing a winning discus throw of135 feet 5 inches, nearly 10 feet ahead of West Genesee’s Jayson Body (125’8”) in the runner-up spot. Hagen, in the long jump, went 20’7 ¾” and landed in second place behind Cortland’s Ezra Engst-Mansilla, who won with 21’2 ½”.
Blair, Mett, Leveroni and Moss were sixth in the 4×100 relay in 47.71 seconds, while Metz and Leveroni joined Capozza and Cross Bianchi to finish fifth in the 4×400 in 3:50.36.
Iles was sixth in the girls 100 hurdles in 17.13 seconds. Willcox was ninth in the 200 and Brogan was ninth in the 3,000.
