Hamilton — Things are underway again for each of Cazenovia’s indoor track and field teams, who returned to Colgate University’s Sanford Field House Saturday to begin a string of Mohawk Valley Indoor Track Association meets.

In the first MVITA Relays, the girls Lakers finished second, with 76 points, edging out Clinton (74 points) for that runner-up spot and trailing only Rome Free Academy’s total of 83 points. Chittenango finished 10th with just eight points.

By clearing 4 feet 10 inches with fewer misses than New Hartford’s Elizabeth Lemire, the Lakers’ Tori Fischer won the individual high jump, and with Maddy Gavitt also took the team event with a combined 9’4” clearance. Fischer later helped Caeli Carroll as the pair finished sixth in the weight throw.

Cazenovia’s girls claimed the 4×200 relay when Delaney Yates, Kirsten Underwood, Olivia McEntee and Brenna Hughes went one minute, 54.31 seconds to edge out RFA (1:54.60) by 0.29 seconds.

Also, Yates won the individual 55-meter hurdles in 9.94 seconds and paired with Scout Mueller for second (20.37 seconds), just behind RFA’s 20.25 seconds. Underwood, a close second (7.80 seconds) to RFA’s Tekitha Posey-Barry (7.75 seconds) in the individual 55-meter dash, got second place on the team side, too, with Hughes as they posted 16.05 seconds to the Black Knights’ 15.75.

In the 4×800 relay, Megan Henderson, Zoe Shephard, Hope King and Meggie Hart were second in 10:51.43 to Clinton’s 10:24.41, with Chittenango (11:49.09) in sixth place. Hart, Shephard, Adrien Owens and Jackie Gamlen were second in the 1,500-meter relay in 22:55.25, trailing Clinton’s 22:07.16.

Gavitt and Katie Robbins were second (57 feet 9 ½ inches) to Vernon-Verona-Sherrill (59’4 ½”) in the triple jump, where Chittenango’s Krissy Roberts was third among individuals with a top attempt of 31’1”. Robbins and Jill Britton topped 14 feet in the pole vault, second to Clinton’s 15 feet, while Carroll and Sunday Kulang were sixth in the shot put with 48’3” between them.

continued — Meanwhile, in the boys MVITA event, Cazenovia had just 45 points, but that put them third, with RFA (63 points) second and Clinton, with 73 points, racing to the front. Chittenango fared better here, tying for seventh with 18 points.

Victorious in the 4×200, the Lakers’ quartet of Alec Boone, Dylan Hahn, Cooper Coleman and Dan McKillop finished in 1;42.31, well clear of RFA (1:45.72) and the field.

Boone and Ray Satchwell claimed second place in the long jump, going 35’10”, just three inches less than West Canada Valley’s 36’1”, with Satchwell tied for fourth in the individual high jump, clearing 5’2”.

Sawyer Hunt and Nick Kmetz pushed Cazenovia to second place in the shot put, their throws of 78’3 ¼” only trailing RFA’s 86’2 ½”, with Hunt and Nate Spangler third (74’1”) in the weight throw. Will Huftalen got fourth-place points in the pole vault, clearing 9’6”.

The Bears saw Nick Stanton finish second in the 55 sprint in 7.12 seconds, while the 4×800 relay team of Mike Capeling, Ward Beley, Jacob Blaszkow and Caleb Prenoveo took third place in 9:23.84. Capeling, Beley, Stanton and Devin Myers were third in the sprint medley in 4:01.73, as the Bears took sixth and the Lakers seventh in the mile relay.

A second MVITA meet takes place this Friday before a long holiday break.