For the Mohawk Valley Indoor Track Association championships on Friday night, the venue shifted from Colgate University’s Barton Hall to the brand-new Hutton Dome on the campus of Utica College, but the result for the Cazenovia girls was familiar – first place.

The Lakers won the MVITA Division I championship, earning 174 points to pull away from runner-up Rome Free Academy, who had 136 points. Cazenovia also was third in the boys Division I meet with 85 points, while Chittenango was fourth (67 points) as RFA, with 167 points, finished on top here.

Cleaning up in distance races, the girls Lakers started with Meggie Hart going 10 minutes, 39.76 seconds to beat the field in the 3,000-meter run, with Adrien Owens (12:06.57) sixth.

Then Cazenovia swept the top three in the 1,000-meter run, where Clara Rowles won in 3:13.86, pulling away from Maddie Langey (3:33.83) and Hope King (3:38.24), who were second and third, respectively.

Megan Henderson emerged to win the 1,500-meter run in 5:22.73, with Zoe Shephard second in 5:23.28 and Faith King fifth as Chittenango’s Maggie Lowe was fourth in 5:49.61. To top it off, Hart, Rowles, Henderson and Maria Stalder won the 4×800 relay in 10:25.72 as no one else went under 11 minutes and Chittenango (11:44.85) finished fifth.

Moving to the sprints, Kirsten Underwood, in 7.69 seconds, edged RFA’s Tekitha Posey-Barry (7.71 seconds) to win the 55-meter dash, with Brenna Hughes fourth in 8.04 seconds.

In the 4×200 relay, Hughes, Olivia McEntee, Delaney Yates and Janie Kempf were second in 1:57.09, inches behind RFA’s 1:57.03, with Chittenango fourth. McEntee, Katrina Wilson, Sadie Coleman and Grace Rajkowski were fourth in the 4×400 relay in 4:35.87, with Chittenango (4:57.81) in fifth place.

Cazenovia also won in field events, where Tori Fischer claimed the weight throw with a heave of 30 feet 2 inches and Caeli Carroll (22’9″) was sixth.

In the high jump, Fischer cleared 4’10”, the same as New Hartford’s Elizabeth Lemire, but Lemire had fewer misses, so Fischer got second place and Jess Macheda, clearing 4’6″, finished fourth.

Ryleigh Tillison rose to second place in the shot put, heaving it 27’7″, half an inch behind RFA’s Jennifer Ivey (27’7″) as Fischer (24’8 1/2″) finished fourth. In the pole vault, Robbins, clearing 8 feet, was second to RFA’s Sydney Lewis (8’6″) as Maddy Gavitt was third, clearing 7’6″, and Jill Britton was sixth.

McEntee took third in the 300-meter dash in 45.38 seconds, while Yates was fourth in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.99 seconds, with Scout Mueller fifth and Maddie Meigs sixth.

The Bears did get a win, though, in the 600-meter run, where Kaitlyn Swain won in 1:46.66, ahead of the Lakers’ Maria Stalder in third (1:47.42) and Hart (1:49.71) in fifth place as Chittenango’s Mckenzie Dombroski was sixth.

Krissy Roberts contended twice for Chittenango, going 32’8″ in the triple jump to finish second, ahead of Gavitt (31’8 1/2″) and Robbins (31’3″) in the next two spots. Roberts took third place in the long jump, going 15’1″ as Gavitt (14’11 1/4″) gained fifth place.

Moving to the boys meet, Cazenovia flourished, for the most part, in field events, especially the pole vault, where it swept the top three positions. Will Huftalen won, clearing 9 feet 6 inches, with Dan McKillop second (9 feet) and Jake Robbins third, clearing 7’6″.

In the high jump, Satchwell cleared 5 feet 2 inches, getting second place behind Central Valley Academy star Zach Crim (5’10”) as Huftalen was third and Robbins fourth, each clearing 5 feet.

Huftalen earned second place in the triple jump, going 34’11”, while Satchwell was third with 34’1″ as Crim flew 43’2″ and won here, too. Satchwell went 16’11 1/4″ in the long jump, finishing fourth, while Dylan Hahn (16’2 1/4″) was sixth. Sawyer Hunt added a fifth-place shot put toss of 38’10”.

Chittenango gained a win in the boys 4×400, where Nick Stanton, Devin Myers, Deviln Cameron and Caleb Prenoveau prevailed in 4:07.74, whlie Cazenovia had Cooper Coleman, John-Henry Light-Olson, Sam Galasso and Angelo Annato was fourth in 4:15.54.

But the Lakers nearly countered in the 4×200, where Coleman, Hahn, McKillop and Jack Eldred posted 1:41.96 to finish second to RFA’s 1:38.31, with the Bears (2:01.02) settling for fourth place.

Mike Capeling gave the Bears a victory in the 1,000 in 2:48.68, with Jakob Blaszkow third in 2:53.91 as the Lakers’ Jimmy McPherson (3:02.79) finished fifth. McPherson also was fifth (5:12.41) in the mile.

Stanton earned a second-place finish in the 300 in 39.10 seconds behind New Hartford’s Josh Murray (38.86 seconds), and also was second (6.99 seconds) to RFA’s Bradley Dougherty (6.75 seconds) in the 55 sprint.

Pronoveau, Capeling, Blaszkow and Ward Beley finished second (9:17.77) to New Hartford (9:10.72) in the 4×800, where Cazenovia was fourth in 10:17 flat.

Individually, Beley was fourth in the 600 in 1:38.15, with Dylan Price fifth and Prenoveau sixth. Wesley Stanton took fourth place in the 55 hurdles. Matt Morak was sixth in the 3,200-meter run.