Onondaga — Once more, the Fayetteville-Manlius indoor track and field teams found winning form as the calendar turned to 2016.
With the transition from cross country complete, the Hornets went out in last Saturday’s George Constantino Memorial Invitational and swept the team titles in the morning session, earning 101.33 points on the girls side as Christian Brothers Academy, with 60 points, was just behind Skaneateles (62 points) for the runner-up spot.
F-M’s boys, with 84 points, prevailed, too, but CBA rose to second place with 49 points, holding off Central Square (46 points) and Oswego (43 points), as Bishop Grimes got 14 points on the boys side East Syracuse Minoa also competed in the morning sessions.
To get F-M’s girls going, Sophie Ryan won the 1,500-meter run in four minutes, 52.49 seconds, pulling away from Palmer Madsen, who was second in 5:07.38. Then, in the 600-meter run, Phoebe White won in 1;42.66 and Rebecca Walters got second place in 1:45.52.
Yet another sweep took place in the 3,000-meter run as Kaitlyn Neal blazed to a time of 9:40.03 and Claire Walters, in 11:11.34, was a distant second. Jenna Farrell made it to second place in the 1,000-meter run in 3:08.88 and Samantha Levy was fourth in 3:11.69.
Ryan, paired with Cady Barns, Christy Berge’ and Phoebe Lindabury, pulled away and won the 4×400 relay in 4:19.66. Madsen, White, Neal and Walters went 10:01.72 to dominate the 4×800 relay, beating the field by more than a minute.
In a 1-2 sweep of the 55-meter dash, CBA’s Anna Schug won in 7.54 seconds and Kiana Ferguson was second in 7.68 seconds. Together, Schug and Ferguson, along with Claire Bargabos and Anna Langlois, won the 4×200 relay in 1:52.55 to beat out Skaneateles (1:53.01) at the line, and Ferguson also won the long jump, going 16 feet 4 inches as F-M’s Febe Oley (14’10 ½”) was sixth following a third-place pole vault clearance of 6 feet.
continued — Skylar Decker was third in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.62 seconds, with the Hornets’ Sydney O’Dell fifth before Barns got sixth in the 55 sprint. CBA also had Lucy Person get fourth place in the 3,000 in 11:44.26, while O’Dell cleared 4’6” in the high jump for fourth place.
Bargabos was fourth in the 300-meter dash in 44.74 seconds, where O’Dell (46.44 seconds) took fifth place. Olivia Morganti earned third place in the 1,000 in 3:10.65 as Kat Fletcher (3:35.37) finished sixth. ESM’s Lindsey Crego was third in the shot put, tossing it 28’9 ¼”, while F-M’s Sophia Jones (27’3”) was fifth.
To win on the boys end, F-M needed Bryan Geehrer (9:37.37) and Patrick Perry (9:45.82) to go 1-2 in the 3,200-meter run where CBA’s Dominic Morganti (10:10.08) finished third. Max Perry added a victory in the 1,000 in 2:49.75 over Bishop Grimes’ Chris Larson (2:50.65) in second place. Eli Capri was fifth for the Hornets in 2:56.93.
Later, in the 4×800, Geehrer, Perry, Jack Boltman and Stefan Mina finished in 8:50.81, well clear of Auburn (9:42.96) and the field. Peyton Burnett, Jack Grifo, Armondo Adrian and Connor Florcyzk were second (1:40.04), just behind Homer (1:39.84), in the 4×200, with CBA sixth in 1:44.76.
F-M also got key points in field events from Chibu Ezidiegwu, who cleared 6 feet in the high jump to finish second to Oswego’s Kyle Crossman (6’2”), and Vincent Perry, who was fourth in the pole vault, clearing 10’6”.
Tom SanGiacomo led the CBA boys side, winning the 55 sprint in 6.86 seconds as Grifo was third (6.99 seconds) and Burnett sixth. Brendan Keeney won, too, covering the 600 in 1:29.34 as the Hornets saw Sean Donlon finish third (1:31.14) and Boltman (1;31.48) get fifth place.
CBA also had Nikhil Reddy finish second in the mile in 4:48.57 behind Onondaga’s Connor Oakman (4:46.25), with F-M’s Stefan Mina and Matt Tripp fifth and sixth, respectively. Pat Carey got third place in the 55 hurdles in 8.71 seconds before helping SanGiacomo, Reddy and Keeney take second place in the 4×400 in 3:59.57 to Homer’s 3:49.89.
continued — During the afternoon session at the Constantino meet, Jamesville-DeWitt finished fourth on the girls side with 59 points and tied for fifth with Nottingham with 27 points, each time with Cicero-North Syracuse (120 points for the boys, 107 points for the girls) getting first place.
The Red Rams did not have Alexandria Payne for the girls meet, but still had Hannah Butler, who in 3:09.86 pulled away from C-NS’s Annina Marullo (3:15.33) and the field to win the 1,000, and then helped Casey Keane, Sophia Vinciguerra and Katie Lutz win the 4×800 in 10:30.05 over West Genesee (10:38.06) in second place.
Alexia Carr was second (7.85 seconds), just behind Marcellus’ Mary-Catherine Coon (7.82 seconds), in the 55 sprint, and then finished second in the 300 in 44.92 seconds behind West Genesee’s Megan Delia (43.16 seconds). Sara Signorelli took third in the pole vault, clearing 8’6”, with Gabrielle Tanksley (8 feet) in fifth place.
Keane rose to third place in the 600 in 1:44.38, with Vinciguerra sixth in 1:48.35 as Mariah Williams threw the shot put 29’9 ¾” for third place. Ally Street, in 12:03.15, beat out Abigail Leavitt (12:24.13) for sixth place in the 3,000 as the Rams got sixth place in the 4×400 in 4:59.13 and seventh in the 4×200.
On the boys end, J-D’s Jan Ramirez had the best finish, in the high jump, where he cleared 5’10” to finish second behind C-NS’s George Reader, who won with 6 feet. Jesse Johnson was fifth, clearing 5’6”, while Alex Le was sixth (9 feet) in the pole vault.
Ramirez also needed 6.90 seconds to gain third place in the 55 sprint and added a fourth in the long jump (19’5”), while Alex Carbacio was fourth in the 55 hurdles in 8.84 seconds. Evan Baxter got fifth in the shot put (40’1 ¾”) as J-D had seventh-place finishes in the 4×800 and 4×200, plus a ninth in the 4×400.