Onondaga — The weekly Central New York Indoor Track Association meets that take place at SRC Arena are a large enterprise, so much so that, for the season-opening Jack Morse Kickoff Meet on Saturday, it was split up into two parts, a morning and afternoon shift.
Skaneateles got the morning CNYITA assignment, and did quite well with it, the girls Lakers picking up 65 points to finish second out of 11 sides, trailing only the much larger team from Cicero-North Syracuse, who won with 96 points.
Julia Willcox put Sknaeateles in the winner’s column during the 1,500-meter run, making her way to first place in four minutes, 56.09 seconds, the only sub-five-minute total as C-NS’s Annina Marullo was second in 5:00.51.
Then the Lakers went 1-2 in the 300-meter dash, where Mia Grasso, in 44.30 seconds, held off teammate Angela Krause (44.39 seconds) by nine-hundredths of a second to finish in front. Krause later got fourth place in the long jump by going 14 feet 6 inches as Amanda Wetmore (13’11 ½”) finished seventh.
Willcox returned with Katelyn Ellison, Mikaela Terhune and Brady Iles to go 4:22.17 in the 4×400 relay, exactly one second ahead of C-NS (4:23.17) to begin a late relay sweep. Right after, in the 4×200, Grasso, Olivia Gage, Amanda Wetmore and Maddie Peterson went 1:50.21 to rout C-NS (1:57.69) and the field by more than seven seconds.
Natalie Condon was fourth in the 1,000-meter run in 3:30.87. Terhune took fourth place in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.71 seconds, while Melissa Biver, clearing 6 feet, was fourth in the pole vault.
Aubreah Lynn rose to sixth place in the high jump, clearing 4’6”. Cecilia Marrinan was seventh in the 55-meter dash in 7.87 seconds and Finan Malcolm was seventh (1:52.18) in the 600-meter run. Anna Neuenschwander was 10th in the shot put.
continued — In the boys morning Jack Morse Kickoff Meet, Skaneateles gained 23 points, finishing alone in eighth place, far from C-NS’s top total of 119 points.
Like their female counterparts, the boys Lakers won the 4×200, seeing Tommy Hagen, Jack Kimm, Kai Soderberg and Noah Cliff post a time of 1:39.56 and beat out C-NS (1:40.38) to earn that victory.
On his own, Hagen, in the 55 hurdles, posted 8.27 seconds, second only to C-NS’s Ed Mahana (8.10 seconds) in the standings, and got sixth (19’1”) in the long jump, where Kimm was ninth. Soderberg took fifth place in the 300 sprint in exactly 40 seconds.
Luke Rathgeb got fifth in the 1,000 in 2:54.18 as Rathgeb, Steve Ciaccio, Sam McClintic and Graham McCarthy were eighth in the 4×800 relay in 9:54.58, with Ciaccio taking 11th in the 600 and helping McClintic, Chris Corona and Brahm Malcolm get eighth place in the 4×400.
Luke Palmer tied for seventh in the high jump, clearing 5’4”, while Kevin Danaher took 12th place in the shot put.
