Each of the West Genesee track and field teams, plus boys sides from Westhill-Bishop Ludden and Marcellus, were part of the action during last Friday’s Chittenango Invitational.
In the girls meet, West Genesee amassed 42 points and rose to fourth place, though far from the winning total of 147 points posted by Fayetteville-Manlius as Liverpool (68 points) and Cicero-North Syracuse (60 points) were second and third, respectively.
On the oval, West Genesee won the 4×400 relay, seeing Megan Delia, Kelsey Fox, Emily Young and Kendall Dombroske gain victory in four minutes, 10.69 seconds, more than eight seconds clear of runner-up F-M (4:18.78) and the field.
Contending in the 4×100 relay, Fox, Delia, Aubrey Trett and Krista Barniewicz make it to second place in 54.38 seconds, trailing only Liverpool, who pulled way to win in 51.66 seconds. In the 800-meter run, Emily Young went 2:22.39, making it to second place, though far back of Hamilton’s Sage Hurta, who won in 2:14.36.
Kendall Dombroske, competing in the regulation mile, finished third in 5:33.87, with Sara Ferranti getting fifth place in 5:43.60. Madalyn Benson needed 1:13.01 to rise to fourth place in the 400-meter hurdles and was sixth in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.86 seconds, just before Kelsey Fox took sixth (13.49 seconds) in the 100-meter dash.
Carly Benson took part in the featured Fleet Feet Mile, and made it to fifth place in 5:12.34, though F-M’s Kaitlyn Neal won in 4:56.51 as Liverpool’s Ben Petrella won the boys Fleet Feet Mile in 4;19.10. WG’s J’Nazia Anderson was eighth in the discus with a throw of 79 feet.
Fresh off its win at its own Spring Break Invitational, Westhill-Bishop Ludden’s boys got a sixth-place finish in the Chittenango Invitational with 31 points, just ahead of West Genesee (27 points) in eighth place and Marcellus (22 points), who tied for ninth. Liverpool won over C-NS, 113 points to 83.
And that included Sean Raymond giving Marcellus a victory in the five-event pentathlon. Winning both the high jump (5 feet 11 ½ inches) and 1,500-meter run (4;35.04) helped Raymond get to 2,847 points, beating out C-NS’s Ed Mahana (2,747 points) for the top spot as Westhill-Ludden’s Will Ringwood finished eighth. Patrick McGuane finished third for Marcellus in the 800 in 2:04 flat, with Matt Strempel (2:04.59) close behind in fifth place.
Bryan King was victorious for Westhill-Ludden in the pole vault, clearing 12 feet with fewer misses than Fulton’s Garet Roik, who cleared the same height. WG’s Peter Bowman was third, topping 11 feet. King also finished fifth in the 110 high hurdles in 16.44 seconds.
Another field event win for the Warriors came in the shot put, thanks to Will Swartwood, who tossed it 42 feet 10 inches to beat out South Lewis’ Tom Randall (40’7”) by nearly two feet. Keandre Sanders rose to third place in the long jump, going exactly 20 feet, and added a fifth-place triple jump of 39’3 ¼”.
On West Genesee’s side, it was David Leff victorious in the 3,200-meter run, his time of 9:29.06 well clear of another Liverpool athlete, Ryan Comstock, who was second in 9:37.38. No one else broke the 10-minute mark as the Wildcats’ Ryan Dunning finished seventh. Leff, Mark Dellefave, Mark Kopp and Griffin Dombroske took fifth place in the 4×800 relay in 3:40.18.
Dellefave was second (53.26 seconds) to Liverpool’s Mike Mahan (52.35 seconds) in the 400 sprint, while Marcellus saw Mike Provvidenti finish fourth in 53.71 seconds and Westhill-Ludden’s Cody Badman (54.02 seconds) was sixth. The Wildcats also saw Tim Huppman get sixth place in the 400 hurdles in 1:02.98 as Sean Byrnes was eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
