Capping off impressive spring campaigns, both of the East Syracuse Minoa track and field teams put together impressive second-place showings during Friday’s Section III Class A championships at Central Square.
With 95 points, the boys Spartans only trailed New Hartford’s winning total of 112 points. On the girls side, ESM had 91 points, holding off Jamesville-DeWitt (83 points) as host Central Square prevailed with 153 points.
Dominating the girls 4×100 relay, ESM had Lailani Carrion, Kaleigh Maloof, Rylie King and Sophie Hartz prevail in 50.77 seconds, more than a second ahead of Whitesboro (51.91) in second place.
Carrion went 1:02.61 to take the 400-meter dash over Central Square’s Sierra Fehrman (1:03.56) as J-D’s Janna VanVraken was fifth in 1:06.02. Hartz finished fourth in the long jump with 16 feet 2 inches.
In the pole vault, Julia Perrotta won for the Spartans, clearing 10 feet as Maria Markert was fourth by topping 9’6″. Jennah Ferrari cleared 5 feet in the high jump to finish second as Rhiannon Butchko (4’8″) took fifth place.
Sara Bourdon was second in the shot put, heaving it 31’5 3/4″ as Aryanna Finkelstein and Sophia Jackson both threw it 27’7 3/4″ for fifth and sixth place, respectively. In the discus, Bourdon’s 96’10” trailed only the 115’3″ from Whitesboro’s Madison Kozyra.
ESM also got 10 points out of the pentathlon, where Jessica Stevens was third with 2,009 points and Alyssa Woodruff got fourth place with 1,798 points. Rachael Ladd got third place in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7:51.47.
A direct duel in the boys shot put had the Spartans’ Elijah Buck throwing it 48’3 1/4″ to beat out the 44’3 1/4″ from J-D’s James Richer and 41’6 3/4″ from Richer’s teammate, Caleb Patterson.
Buck made it a sweep of the throwing events by heaving the discus 132’7″, again with Richer settling for second place as he threw it 127’1″ and Patterson (108’5″) was fourth.
Myles Riggins finished second in the 110 high hurdles in 15.75 seconds, while Rocky El was third in 16.18 seconds and Conner Hillman (16.81) was sixth.
Riggins then got second place in the 100-meter dash in 11.28 seconds, with Hillman fourth in the 400 hurdles in 1:01.70. In the 200-meter dash, Riggins had a third runner-up finish in 23.10 seconds.
El notched second place in the triple jump with 42’8 3/4″, while Ermin Alemic was third with 41’3 1/2″. Alemic had a second-place long jump of 20’7″ behind Indian River’s Troy Stephen (21’3″), with El sixth. Nick Berg finished third in the 800-meter run in 2:02.25.
The J-D boys finished fourth in Class A with 74 points, including a 4×400 relay where Mike Potamianos, Haberle Conlon, Nick Mannion and Fidel Martinez posted 3:30.39, just behind New Hartford’s 3:29.59 as ESM got fourth place in 3:38.88.
Mannion, Martinez, Michael Sizing and Josh Hillers were second in the 4×800 relay in 8:36.30, with ESM third in 8:42.06, and J-D was third in the 4×100 in 45.17 seconds.
Martinez also got second place in the 400 sprint in 51.28 seconds as Mike Potamianos (52.60) was fifth. Nick Dekaney was fourth in the pentathlon with 2,372 points.
Sizing, in 10:18.72, was fourth in the 3,200-meter run, with Ahviere Reese fifth in 10:39.15. Sam Smith took fifth place in the mile in 4:41.70, with Conlon fourth in the 200 in 23.48 seconds.
On the girls side, J-D had Laetticia Bazile prevail again in the high jump, clearing 5’3″ as Denise Yaeger unleashed a winning triple jump of 35’10 3/4″, more than two feet ahead of the field.
Yaeger was second in the long jump with 16’2 1/2″ and got third place in the 200 in 27.75 seconds as Eva Wisniewski (27.91) was fifth.
Sophia Vinciguerra gained second place in the 800 in 2:37.20 and went 5:01.50 for third place in the 1,500-meter run. Amelia Gilbert (5:10.32) finished fifth and ESM’s Rachael Ladd got sixth place in 5:15.21.
Monica Hernandez-Olivera took third place in the 400 hurdles in 1:13.25, adding a fourth place in the 100 hurdles in 17.48 seconds. Kyra Schultz was fifth (1:15.53) in the 400 hurdles.J-D was third in the 4×800 in 10:47.32 and also third in the 4×400 in 4:31.20.
A day earlier, Christian Brothers Academy took part in the sectional Class B-1 championships at Chittenango, where Zach Medicis gave the CBA boys a win in the mile, his time of 4:32.64 just enough to hold off Camden’s Simon Seidl (4:33.05).
Then the Brothers went 1-2 in the 800, Joel Gaffney tearing to the title in 1:57.27 as Caleb Krueger also broke the two-minute mark, finishing second in 1:59.73 as Dan Melvin was fifth in 2:04.36.
The CBA girls had Cory Knox victorious in the pentathlon, as her total of 2,525 points easily outdistanced South Jefferson’s Madison Neukrich (2,268) for the top spot.
Later, in the 1,500-meter run, Olivia Morganti went 4:41.30 to claim a duel with Camden’s Elizabeth Lucason (4:41.70) by less than a second. Beatrice Gurgol had a third-place triple jump of 33’10 ½”. Skye Ryan got fifth place in the shot put, heaving it 30’5 ½
