Onondaga — With first-place finishes on both sides, the Baldwinsville indoor track and field teams found some measure of success when they went to SRC Arena for Wednesday night’s CNY Counties League National division championships.
On the boys end, the Bees had 89 points, third behind Cicero-North Syracuse (153 points) and Liverpool (118 points), while on the girls end B’ville had 78 points and settled for fourth place behind the Northstars (who won here, too), Warriors and West Genesee Wildcats.
Claiming the boys 4×400 relay, Evan Vannatta, Greg Porceng, Kieran Sheriden and Tyler Luciano went three minutes, 34.55 seconds, and held off C-NS (3:35.11) to prevail. Then, on his own, Vannatta was victorious in the 600-meter run in 1:27.17 as Denis Keegan (1:30.96) got seventh place.
Evan Donhauser again beat the field in the 55-meter hurdles, going 7.98 seconds to edge C-NS’s Ed Mahana (8.04 seconds) as Nate Cutie (9.12 seconds) took fifth place. Moving to the high jump, Nate Jaquint prevailed when he cleared 5 feet 6 inches with fewer misses than the Northstars’ Zack Kennedy.
Sheriden nearly won the 300-meter dash, going 38.07 seconds, one-hundredth of a second behind Liverpool’s Donald Frost (38.06 seconds), as Luciano (38.73 seconds) got fourth place.
Contending in the 4×800 relay, B’ville had Ethan Craig, Ryan Delola, Denis Keegan and Adam Davis finish second in 8:40.46 behind Liverpool’s swift 8:12.11. And in the 4×200, Donhauser, Sheriden, Brandon Brown and Austin Catalano got second place in 1:37.96 as C-NS won in 1:36.66.
Catalano, in the triple jump, had a top attempt of 39’8” to finish third as Nick Krugar (34’3 ¼”) got eighth place. Judson Fletcher was fourth in the shot put, heaving it 38’6” as Anthony Sellers (32’9”) was seventh. Luciano got fifth place in the long jump (17’7”) as Brown gained eighth place.
Craig finished fourth in the 1,000-meter run in 2:42.36, with Andrew Vanslyke sixth in 2:55.77. Delola was sixth (10:20.42), ahead of Ben Timmons (11:05.23), in the 3,200-meter run, while Davis took sixth in the mile in 4:51.75 and Connor McManus (4:58.33) finished seventh. Donhauser was seventh (7.08 seconds) and Brown eighth (7.13 seconds) in the 55-meter dash.
continued — B’ville’s girls team would also win their 4×400 relay as Tina Bartelli, Anna Demer, Katie Wicks and Kelley Hull finished in 4:12.19 and claimed a thriller over C-NS (4:12.32), who was just 0.13 seconds behind.
Later, in the 4×200, Bartelli, Demer, Katherine Siddall and Katie Weaver posted 1:54.66, just behind West Genesee’s 1:53.94 in the runner-up spot. Hull, Leah Carpenter, Madison Dickter and Patricia Conlan were fourth in the 4×800 relay in 11:05.80.
On the individual side, Hailey Couchman was victorious in the long jump, going16 feet 7 ¾ inches to beat out C-NS’s Shayla Webb (16’4 ¾”), while Marina Blasi was eighth. Then, in the high jump, Adriana Straughter cleared 4’10” and won by two inches over the Northstars’ Brittany House.
Hull gained third place in the 600 in 1:45.18, with Wicks eighth in 1:55.50. Bartelli was third in the 300 in 44.49 seconds, with Demer (45.51 seconds) seventh. Adriana Straughter, in 9.85 seconds, grabbed fourth place in the 55 hurdles as Abby Scherfling (10.79 seconds) earned eighth place. Anna Miller, in the shot put, threw it 29’10 ½”, beating out teammate Brina Edmonds (27’11”) for third place.
Sarah Rodman was fourth in the 1,000 in 3:19.19, with Mia Bolton fifth in 3:22.33. Weaver was fifth in the 55 sprint in 7.94 seconds, while Hannah Klaben was eighth in 8.16 seconds.
Sophie Simone, in 11:40.97, beat out Carpenter (11:42.34) for sixth place in the 3,000-meter run. Bolton was seventh (5;33.42) and Rodman eighth (5:34.74) in the 1,500, with Klaben eighth and Sydney Molinet ninth in the triple jump.
B’ville would be back at SRC Arena next Wednesday, this time with the Section III Class AA championships on the line.