As a neighborly gesture, Cicero-North Syracuse agreed to host Baldwinsville’s annual John Arcaro Classic while the Bees’ home track is replaced this spring.
Once the races started last Friday, though, the hospitality ended. With 100 points, the boys Northstars prevailed in the 18-team competition and B’ville, with 75 points, settled for second place. Liverpool, with far from a full roster on hand, earned 25 points.
Jeremiah Willis led C-NS with three individual titles, starting in the 100-meter dash, where he won in 11.20 seconds to edge Watertown’s Mikeal Teamer (11.23 seconds) at the line. Later, in the 200-meter dash, Willis again beat Teaner, 22.61 seconds to 22.76, and in the long jump Willis flew 21 feet 8 ½ inches to win once more.
Tyler Mosher went from helping Mike Whentling, Tyler Hughes and Dan Swackhamer win the unique 4×100 muscle relay in 53.73 seconds to winning the more conventional shot put with a toss of 50 feet 1 inch, a full five feet ahead of B’ville’s Gabe Horan (45’1”) in the runner-up spot.
George Reader was third behind Willis in the long jump, going 20’2”, and tied for fourth in the high jump, clearing 6 feet, while Nate Osborne topped 11 feet in the pole vault and also shared fourth place. Reader added a fourth-place finish in the triple jump by leaping 41’ ¼”.
C-NS didn’t have Ed Mahana for hurdles events, yet still earned valuable points. The Northstars’ Ryan Williams was second in the 400 hurdles in 1:02.29 to Indian River’s Patrick Leonard (1:01.68) as Liverpool’s Tyler Goss took third place in 1:03.90, while in the 110 hurdles C-NS’s Joe Williams went 15.11 seconds and was runner-up to East Syracuse Minoa’s Jeremy McGrath, who got the victory in 14.93 seconds.
Liverpool’s Steven Schulz won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:46.03, though C-NS’s Andrew Bearkland made it to third place in 9:57.75, with Schulz adding a second-place time of 2:03.74 in the 800-meter run behind Syracuse ITC’s Solomon Lawrence, who blazed to 1:57.28.
The Warriors were sixth in the 4×800 relay, where the Northstars’ quartet of David Ware, Noah Poirer, Brandon Martin and Zach Wagner were second in 8:29.98 to Indian River’s 8;19.70. Ware also got third place in the 800 in 2:04.25 behind Lawrence and Schulz.
Elsewhere, Matt Williams was fifth in the 400-meter dash in 53.38 seconds, with A.J. Wells seventh. Wells, Bearkland, Matt Williams and Ryan Williams rose to fourth place in the 4×400 relay in 3:35.77, with the Northstars also fifth (45.67 seconds) in the 4×100.
Meanwhile in the girls John Arcaro Classic, C-NS had 93 points and Liverpool gained 64 points, but they were in the second and third spots, respectively, behind Fayetteville-Manlius, who won with 131 points.
But it was the Warriors’ Kierra Richarson providing a clean sweep of all three sprint races. It started in the 100 as Richardson tore to a time of 12.71 seconds to get past Indian River’s Mikayla Jones (12.87 seconds) and the field.
Then, in the 400 sprint, Richardson went 1:00.46 to top F-M’s Susan Bansbach (1:01.46) by exactly one second, and was capped in the 200 when Richardson led a 1-2 sweep, winning in 25.96 seconds as teammate Marissa Baskin was second in 27.41 seconds.
As if all that wasn’t enough, Richardson earned a fourth title when she paired with Marissa Baskin, Marcia Baskin and Tionna Brown in the 4×100 relay and the Warriors, in 50.84 seconds, beat out Indian River (51.52 seconds) at the finish line.
Though it didn’t have anything close to Richardson’s dominance, C-NS still had plenty of success, especially in field events.
Kierrah Butler threw the shot put 36’4” to beat Indian River’s Angel Torres (31’3”) by a bigger margin than Mosher’s boys shot put title. Then Butler threw the discus 100’9” as no one else even reached 91 feet, though Kiana Garcia was third, going 86’9”.
Shayla Webb won twice, too, as her top long jump of 17’5 ½” topped Brown, who gave Liverpool a second-place finish with 16’8 ¼”. The triple jump saw Webb uncork a top attempt of 37’3”, well clear of Watertown’s Janiesia Crockett (35’11”) as the Warriors’ Marissa Baskin (33’1”) was sixth.
Liliana Klemanski topped 5’1” in the high jump for third place, while Brittany House topped 5 feet for fourth place and Brown tied for eighth, clearing 4’10”.
In the 4×800 relay, Jilliann Norris, Megan Trubia, Sarah Davis and Headen Wilson put C-NS in second place in 10:28.81, though far from F-M’s 9:44.20 as Liverpool finished seventh in 11:57.57. Norris went from there to finish second in the 800 in 2:23.40 behind F-M’s Rebecca Walters, who won in 2:21.74, and also helped the Northstars take fifth place in the 4×400 in 4:20.79.
C-NS’s Annina Marullo finished second in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7:35.87 behind Cazenovia’s Meggie Hart (7:28.30) as Emily Dembowski got fifth place in 8:17.63. House, in 16.30 seconds, was second to F-M’s Gwenn Shepardson (16.17 seconds) in the 100 hurdles as Trubia finished sixth in the 3,000-meter run in 11:23.04.
Liverpool’s Madison Neuner was fifth in the 400 hurdles in 1:12.42, an event Shepardson also won. Kristina Moore got fourth place in the 800 in 2:31.58 and sixth place in the 1,500-meter run in 5:23.40, ahead of the C-NS tandem of Haley Pestle (seventh) and Headen Wilson (eighth).
