Participation in the Central New York Indoor Track Association is large enough that, for the season-opening Jack Morse Kickoff Meet held Saturday at SRC Arena, the event was split into two sessions – one in the morning, one in the afternoon.

Assigned to the morning session, Cicero-North Syracuse won on both sides, piling up 119 points to lap the boys field with Tully (37 points) far back in second place, and needing 96 points to prevail by a more modest margin over Skaneateles (65 points) and other challengers in the girls event.

Andrew Bearkland led the C-NS boys, culminating in his victory in the 1,000-meter run in 2:47.44, more than four seconds ahead of East Syracuse Minoa’s Jim Kenyon (2:49.18), while also making it to second place in the 600-meter run in 1:28.95, just 0.03 seconds behind CBA’s Nikhil Reddy (1:28.92) as Zach Kennedy finished third in 1;29.25.

Ed Mahana won the 55-meter hurdles, needing 8.10 seconds to top Skaneatleles’ Tommy Hagen (8:27 seconds) and the field as Jason Hughes took seventh place. Mahana, teaming with Kennedy, Allen Garnes and Matt Williams, dominated the 4×400 relay in 3:37.92, with runner-up CBA (3:49.42) more than 11 seconds back.

Zach Wagner went 4:41.56 in the mile, second to East Syracuse Minoa’s Matt Young (4:48.38), while Sam Barber was fifth in 4:57.34. Garnes was a close second (38.69 seconds) to Marcellus’ Mike Provvidenti (38.60 seconds) in the 300-meter dash, where Williams was fourth in 38.85 seconds,

Nate Poirier needed exactly 10:07 to finish third in the 3,200-meter run, with Joe Tricarico fourth in 10:27.04. Noah Poirier joined Brandon Martin, Lucas Sharron and David Ware to get fourth place in the 4×800 relay in 9:21.12. Matt Kilian was fourth (6.97 seconds) and Tyler Days (7.02 seconds) sixth in the 55-meter dash.

Kilian, Days, Ryan Massena and George Reader got second place in the 4×200 relay in 1:40.38, with Skaneateles first in 1:39.56.

But Reader did win the high jump, clearing 5 feet 10 inches with fewer misses than Jamesville-DeWitt’s Nolan Roosa as he also took fifth in the long jump, going 19’3” before Tyler Mosher (44’10 ¾”) and Elijah Weiss (38’7 ¾”) took second and third, respectively, in the shot put.

On the girls side for C-NS, Annina Marullo earned 18 points by herself, winning the 1,000 in 3:11.77 as her teammate, Emily Dembkowski, got third place in 3:27.40. Also, Marullo needed 5:00.51 to finish second behind Skaneateles’ Julia Willcox (4:56.09) in the 1,500-meter run.

Jilliann Norris was victorious in the 600, needing 1:45.64 to top a field that included teammate Jamie Wagner (1:50.76) in fourth place.

Norris also paired with Lauren Witek, Marie Leroy and Sarah Davis for second place in the 4×400 in 4:23.17, exactly one second behind Skaneateles’ 4:22.17, while Sasha Pulaski, Shayla Webb, Syndey Florczyk and McKenna Bradford were second (1:57.69), again to Skaneateles (1:50.21), in the 4×200.

Destiny Monica dominated the shot put, throwing it 34’10”, more than five feet ahead of anyone else. Emily Dembkowski was second in the 3,000-meter run in 11:27.78, with Julia Rupp third in 11:18.68.

Megan Trubia, Sarah Davis, Jamie Wagner and Haley Pestle were third in the 4×800 relay in 10:45.77. Leroy was fifth in the 300 in 45.23 seconds as Pulaski got to sixth place in the 55 sprint in 7.81 seconds, Cassie Baldwin was fifth in the high jump, clearing 5’6”.

When all this was done, Liverpool took over in the afternoon session – and nearly swept it.

The boys Warriors, with 77 points, fended off Baldwinsville (67 points) to prevail, while the girls had 68 points, second by a single point to West Genesee’s 69 points and just ahead of Homer (66 points) in third place.

Brandon Mayfield gave the Warriors a first-place finish in the 55 sprint in 6.85 seconds to hold off Syracuse Academy of Science’s Jailan Harrison (6.92 seconds) for that top spot, with Khalil Wailes seventh, just out of the points. Mayfield also went 20’5” in the long jump to finish second to Oswego’s Dawson Izyk (20’8 ½”) as Peter Gonzalez finished sixth, going 18’7 ½”.

Donald Frost got second place in the 300 in 39.07 seconds to Mexico’s Logan Burrows (37.99 seconds), with Collin Gwilt second in the 1,000 in 2:47.18, inches behind West Genesee’s David Leff (2:47.11). McLaughlin, Frost, Gwilt and Omari Odom were fifth (3:58.18) in the 4×400 relay, with Frost, Mayfield, Wailes and Paul Dewan third in the 4×200 in 1:42.24.

Also in the field events, James Gaffney tied for third in the pole vault (8 feet) and Nate Guarante took fifth in the high jump, clearing 5’6”. Cameron Goodson (37’11”) and Andrew Stonebarger (37’3 ¾”) were fifth and sixth, respectively, in the shot put.

Eli Barbour, Shawn Markowsky, Josh Hickmott and Gaganjot Sekhon were second in the 4×800 in 9:33.78 to B’ville’s 9:22.06. Cullen McLaughlin gained second place in the 3,200 in 10:54.05, while Julio Roman was third in the mile in 5:03.22 and Ben Rivers was seventh. Justin Rivera went 9.13 seconds in the 55 hurdles and claimed fifth place.

For the girls Warriors, Juliana Basla won the 1,000 in 3:11.29, getting away from West Genesee’s Maria Matkoski (3:12.06) in the final strides.

Alexis Bittel, in 9.60 seconds, was a close second to Homer’s Keiana Adkins (9.56 seconds) in the 55 hurdles. Megan Milazzo cleared 5 feet in the high jump and was second, just one inch behind Faith Heritage’s Charlotte Matzal, who won with 5’1”.

Kelley Townley claimed second place in the pole vault, topping 9’6”, with Central Square’s Bethany Cripps prevailing with 11 feet and the Warriors’ Mackenzie Case third by clearing 8 feet. Townley also took fifth (14’10”) in the long jump.

Jillian Stagnitta was fourth in the 3,000 in 11:31.46, edging out Vanessa Eberhard (11:31.64) for that top spot, while Stagnitta also helped Basla, Colleen Tifft and Mallory Woytowicz to third place in the 4×800 relay in 10:58.49.

Bittel, Tymaiah Harper, Erin Straub and Julia Nguyen were second (2:00.41) to Homer (1:57.15) in the 4×200. In the 4×400, Basla, Tifft, Natalie Tauro and Amelia Johnson were third in 4:33.91, a race West Genesee won to get 10 points to Liverpool’s six, which made a difference in the final outcome.