Each of Chittenango’s track and field teams would make their way to Fulton for Monday’s Onondaga High School League Freedom division championship meet, where girls Bears managed a fifth-place finish.
Picking up 54 points, Chittenango’s girls were right in the middle of an 11-team field where Jamesville-DeWitt, the regular-season league champions, reinforced that effort by scoring 171 points to pull away from runner-up East Syracuse Minoa (106 points).
Kaitlyn Swain put the Bears into the win column in the 400-meter dash. With a time of 59.69 seconds, Swain was the lone competitor to break the one-minute mark ahead of J-D’s Elena Haarer, who was second in 1:01.78, more than two seconds behind.
Swain also was second in the 200-meter dash in 27.11 seconds to J-D star Alexandria Payne, who won in 26.33 seconds and also prevailed in the 100 hurdles while finishing second in the 200-meter dash.
McKenzie Dombroski contended in the 800-meter run, her time of 2:31.97 putting her in second place behind J-D’s Hannah Butler, who won in 2:28.91. Later, Dombroski paired with Swain, Alex Rheaume and Krissy Roberts to finish third in the 4×400 relay in 4:19.58.
Contending in the triple jump, Krissy Roberts went 33 feet 1 ½ inches to rise to second place as ESM’s Mia Montgomery won with a leap of 35’11 ½”. Roberts went 14’11” to get fifth place in the long jump.
Also, Devin Gordon made it to third place in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in a clocking of 8:54.1. Mia Morgillo was fourth in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:19.37, while Hayley Foran got sixth place in the 1,500-meter run in 5:25.01.
Dombroski, Eryn Thompson, Alyssa Crystal and Jada Sowich were sixth in the 4×800 relay in 11:29.38. Kendria Moore (18.32 seconds) and Lindsay Kent (19.49 seconds) were seventh and eighth, respectively, in the 100 hurdles, and the Bears were ninth in the 4×100 relay in 55.98 seconds. Kai Lee Brayton was 11th in the shot put and 15th in the discus.
Meanwhile, the Chittenango boys track team picked up 33 points in its OHSL Freedom meet, ending up in ninth place, far from the battle at the top where ESM (106.5 points) edged Central Square (104 points) to prevail,
Ten of those points came from Akira Gatewood, who triumphed in the 200, going 23.25 seconds to win by a comfortable margin over Homer’s Matt Guerrera (23.49 seconds).
‘Nick Stanton, who was seventh in the 200, went 52.71 seconds to get third place in the 400 sprint, not far from the winning 52.04 posted by Central Square’s Will Gordon. Stanton, Gatewood, Dylan Davie and Jacobi Dwyer had a fourth-place time of 3:35.45 in the 4×400.
Tyler Howard got fourth place in the 110 high hurdles in 16.43 seconds, while Davie was eighth in 18.07 seconds. Davie did better in the 400 hurdles, getting to fourth place in 1:00.95 . Phillip Abell needed 4:47.02 for a fifth-place finish in the mile.
Willy Blanding was fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:22.8. Jacob Blaszkow joined Dylan Price, Caleb Reale and Caleb Prenoveau for a sixth-place time of 8:58.87 in the 4×800, which was better than Chittenango’s 10th-place effort in the 4×100 in 56.18 seconds.
Davie, going 19’1 ½”, beat out Gatewood (19’ ¼”) for eighth place in the long jump, Gatewood also taking 10th place in the triple jump. Ersilio Cerminero and Dave Gratien were eighth and ninth, respectively, in the 3,200-meter run.
