Onondaga — Contending in many different places, Baldwinsville’s indoor track and field teams managed just one victory during Wednesday’s Section III state qualifier at SRC Arena, though it nearly swept all of the boys relays.
The Bees did win in the boys 4×400, where the quartet of Evan Vannatta, Tyler Luciano, Greg Porceng and Kieran Sheriden got into a duel with Cicero-North Syracuse’s team of Zach Kennedy, Allen Garnes, Matt Williams and Ed Mahana.
In a time of three minutes, 29.99 seconds, B’ville held off the Northstars (3:30.96) by less than a second, the two of them well clear of the rest of the field as Liverpool finished third with a clocking of 3:40.13.
Nearly getting a second relay title, the Bees saw Ethan Craig, Ryan Delola, Adam Davis and Denis Keegan go 8:24.20 in the 4×800 relay, beating everyone except Liverpool, whose team of Ben Petrella, Terrell Coleman, Ty Brownlow and Stephen Schulz, won in 8:22.11.
And the Bees also had a second-place effort in the 4×200 relay, where Evan Donhauser, Tyler Luciano, Austin Catalano and Brandon Brown finished in 1:37.72, while C-NS saw Tyler Days, Jeremiah Willis, Anthony Pauli and Matt Kilian prevail in 1:35.24.
Donhauser qualified for the finals of the 55-meter hurdles in a relaxed 7.95 seconds. Then Donhauser improved to 7.91 seconds in the final, but got second place behind East Syracuse Minoa’s Jeremy McGrath, who won in 7.69 seconds.
Craig made it to third place in the 1,000-meter run in 2:43.47, trailing only Coleman (2:41.56) and Schulz (2:42.13). Vannatta got sixth place in the 600-meter run in 1:29.61 as Keegan finished seventh in 1:30.22. Sheriden needed 38.23 seconds for sixth place in the 300-meter dash.
B’ville’s girls 4×400 team of Kelley Hull, Tina Bartelli, Anna Demer and Katie Wicks got third place in 4:10.16 behind West Genesee (a school-record 4:02.77) and C-NS (4:08.74). Hull, on her own, got fifth place in the 600 in 1:41.60, while Bartelli was ninth in the 300 in 45.42 seconds.
In field events, Haleigh Jaquint made it to seventh place in the triple jump with a top leap of 33 feet 6 inches as ESM’s Mia Montgomery won with 37’1 ¼”. Adriana Straughter was 10th in the high jump, clearing 4’8”, where Jamesville-DeWitt’s Alexandria Payne prevailed with 5’1”.