Nothing was settled when the Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse girls track and field teams battled to a 70-70 tie in their regular-season meeting on April 13 at Bragman Stadium.
More than a month later, when the venue switched to LHS Stadium and three others teams (Baldwinsville, West Genesee and Henninger) joined in for Thursday’s CNY Counties League National division championships, the Warriors got the best of it, earning 196 points to beat the Northstars’ total of 163 points.
Kierra Richardson won the 200-meter dash in 26.27 seconds, with Tymaiah Harper (26.99 seconds) making it a 1-2 finish as Richardson would later get third place in the 400-meter dash in 1:02.26.
Harper would join Marcia Baskin, Marissa Baskin and Tionna Brown as Liverpool pulled away in the 4×100 relay in 50.40 seconds, nearly two seconds ahead of runner-up West Genese (52.31) as C-NS had Sasha Pulaski, Sydney Florczyk, McKenna Bradford and Amanda Reilly finish third in 52.53 seconds.
Brown’s victory came in the long jump, where her top leap of 16 feet 7 ½ inches beat out C-NS star Shayla Webb, who went 16’3 ½” as Alexis Bittel gave the Warriors a third-place leap of 15’3 ¼”.
Morgan Chewning-Kulick pulled out a close victory in the 800-meter run, edging B’ville’s Kelley Hull, 2:21.25 to 2:21.69, while Vanessa Eberhard went 2:29.97 for fourth place, in between C-NS runners Sarah Davis in third place (2;26.59) and Jilliann Norris in fifth place (2:31.30).
Juilana Basla followed in the 1,500-meter run by prevailing in 4:50.54 over two C-NS runners, Annina Marullo (4:56.33) and Mia Pestle (4;57.48), while Jillian Stagnitta got fifth place in 5:07.04. In the 3,000-meter run, Basla was second in 10:50.73, with Stagnitta third in 11;13.15 as the Northstars’ Megan Trubia was fourth in 11;14.64 and Juila Rupp (12:16.16) finished seventh.
Kelley Townley cleared 10 feet in the pole vault, earning the victory as Mackenzie Case topped 8 feet to finish second, with C-NS teammates Hayley Schwarz (8 feet) and McKenna LaPorte (7’6”) third and fourth, respectively.
Sarah LaValley pulled out a victory in the discus by unleashing a throw of 114’8”, something that C-NS’s Kierrah Butler could not quite match, though she was second by going 101’3”, ahead of teammate Kiana Garcia in fifth place (73’10”) as Mackenzie Stonebarger was ninth for the Warriors.
Chewning-Kulick, Eberhard, Windsor Ardner, Kristina Moore and Vanessa Eberhard went 10:10.51 to finish second to West Genesee in the 4×800 relay, while the C-NS quartet of Norris, Davis, Trubia and Haley Pestle was third in 10:20.64.
In the 400-meter hurdles, Abby Haley was second in 1:09.34 to B’ville’s Shylea Dukat (1:08.31), while Natalie Kurz was third in 1:10.22. C-NS watched Abby Szumloz take fifth place in 1:11.66.
Megan Milazzo, clearing 5’1”, was second in the high jump behind B’ville’s Adrianna Straughter (5’1”), with Brown fourth as she and C-NS’s Liliana Klemanski, who was third, both cleared 5 feet.
C-NS did win its share of events, too, including a 1-2 effort in the 100-meter hurdles where Cassie Baldwin, who was fifth in the long jump, needed 16.31 seconds to hold off Brittany House, who was second in 16.44 seconds before finishing sixth in the 400 hurdles and high jump. Bittel was third in 16.95 seconds and Amelia Johnson (17.65 seconds) got sixth place.
Pulaski went 12.63 seconds in the 100-meter dash to beat out Harper (12.68 seconds) and Richarson (12.72 seconds) in the next two spots. Bradford was fifth in 13.61 seconds, also taking fifth in the 200 in 29.49 seconds. Ashlyn Slate (1:03.55) edged Marie LeRoy (1:03.56) for fifth place in the 400 sprint.
Webb, beaten by Brown in the long jump, avenged it by winning the triple jump with a top leap of 36’5 ¼”, and no one got close to it, though Bittel did finish third by going 33’10 ½” and Marissa Baskin (32’9 ¾”) added a fifth-place finish ahead of Baldwin in seventh place.
Also, in a 1-2 finish in the shot put, C-NS had Destiny Monica throw it 36’6” to beat out Kierrah Butler’s best throw of 35’2 ¼”, with the Warriors’ Trinity Gray fifth (28’11 ½”) and Madyson Oliveri eighth.
In the 4×400 relay, C-NS got second place as Davis, LeRoy, Szumloz and Lauren Witek went 4:13.49 behind B’ville’s 4:11.62, with Moore, Ardner, Haley and Sophia Prince putting Liverpool in fourth place in 4:22.59.
Marullo, second in the 1,500, had no one in front of her in the 2,000-meter steeplechase as she won that race in 7:45.11, beating out Kurz, who was second in 7:51.34 for the Warriors. Emily Dembowski was fourth in 8:05.61 and Kurz’s teammate, Mallory Woytowicz, was sixth in 8:07.81.
