In between the CNY Counties League National Division and Section III Class AA championship meets, the Cicero-North Syracuse track and field teams managed to squeeze in its own invitational meet last Saturday at Bragman Stadium.
Here, much the same thing happened as in the league meet, in that C-NS won the boys division, doing so with 150 points, while Liverpool retaliated by taking the girls title, 126 points to the Northstars’ 111, this after a second-place 94-point effort in the boys meet.
To get going on the boys side, C-NS swept the top two spots in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as Andrew Bearkland won in 10 minutes, 13.73 seconds and Nate Poirer got second place in 10;24.66.
Freshman Brandon Martin landed a victory for the Northstars in the 3,200-meter run, his time of 10:07.12 just enough to hold off Liverpool’s Dan Hunt (10:07.35) for that top spot, while Joe Tricarico finished third in 10:12.11.
Then the Northstars swept all three relay titles. Noah Poirer, David Ware, Eric Bowen and Sam Barber put C-NS on top in the 4×800 relay in 8:27.16, while Liverpool was fourth in 9:05.69. In the 4×100,
Joe Williams, Anthony Pauli, Landry Rogers and Matt Kilian won in 44.80 seconds to keep Liverpool’s quartet of Brandon Mayfield, Donald Frost, Nazir Murray and Khalil Wales second in 45.22 seconds. Finally, in the 4×400, Matt Williams, Ed Mahana, Zach Kennedy and Allen Garnes went 3:28.83.
Tyler Mosher won the shot put, his top throw of 46 feet 10 inches well clear of Liverpool’s Arthur Bittel, who was second with a toss of 42’6 ¼”. In the discus, Bittel threw it 120’9” to finish ahead of Mosher (117 feet) in fourth place.
George Reader, with a triple jump of 42’2 ½”, beat Mexico’s Hunter Hellinger (40’5”) by nearly two feet. Reader cleared 6 feet in the high jump, second behind Hellinger (6’2), and was fourth in the long jump, going 20’3”, just ahead of Rogers’ 20’2 ¼” in fifth place.
Joe Williams was second in the 110 high hurdles in 16.01, beating out Liverpool’s Nazir Murray (16.09 second), who was third. In the 400-meter hurdles, the Northstars’ Ryan Williams finished third in 1:00.71. Matt Kilian, in 22.97 seconds, was second to CBA’s Tom SanGiacomo (22.46 seconds) in the 200-meter dash.
Matt Williams needed 51.96 seconds for second place behind Corcoran’s Naseem Fielder (51.52) in the 400-meter dash, where Murray took fourth place in 53.33 seconds and the Northstars’ A.J. Wells (53.62 seconds) was fifth.
Liverpool got a win from Mayfield in the 100-meter dash as he went 11.33 seconds to hold off Mexico’s Logan Burrows (11.41 seconds) for that top spot.
Stephen Schulz claimed a dramatic 800-meter run as he and West Genesee’s David Leff crossed the finish line in 1:58.48, but Schulz had the edge by three-thousandths of a second as Collin Gwilt was third in 1:59.46 and C-NS put Eric Bowen (2:01.68) in fourth place. Gwilt, Murray, Paul Dewan and Dontra Miller were fourth (3:43.91) in the 4×400.
James Gaffney, clearing 11 feet, was second in the pole vault, while the Northstars’ Nate Osborne was third, though he cleared that same height as Fulton’s Garet Roik (13 feet) won.
Ryan Comstock got third place in the mile in 4:30.13, beating out C-NS’s Zach Wagner (4:37.42), who was fourth. Dewan (38’7 ½”) and Alex Rusten (38’1 ½”) were fourth and fifth, respectively, in the triple jump behind Reader.
In order to win the girls title, Liverpool needed Kierra Richardson to sweep the sprints. Richardson first claimed the 100 sprint in 12.65 seconds, with teammate Marissa Baskin getting to third place in 13.15 seconds.
Then Richardson won the 200-meter dash in 26.17 seconds, nearly a second better than West Genesee’s Kelsey Fox (26.89 seconds) and the field. To cap it off, Richardson, Marissa Baskin, Marcia Baskin and Tymaiah Harper won the 4×100 relay in 50.13 seconds, more than three seconds ahead of the field.
Also winning in field events, the Warriors had Kelley Townley clear 9 feet 6 inches for first place in the pole vault as C-NS’s Hayley Schwartz (7’6”) tied for fourth. Sarah Lavalley beat the field in the discus, her throw of 111 feet well clear of Niskayuna’s Karen Leap, who topped out at 100’8”.
Natalie Kurz, in 1:08.30, was second, close behind West Canada Valley’s Cora Maxwell (1:07.88), in the 400 hurdles, with Amelia Johnson fourth in 1:09.9. Tionna Brown got third place in the 100-meter hurdles in 16.80 seconds, and also was third in the high jump, clearing 4’6”. Windsor Ardner was fourth (5:02.84) and Mallory Woytowicz sixth (5:10.44) in the 1,500-meter run, with Vanessa Eberhard fifth in the 800 in 2:25.99.
C-NS won in field events, going 1-2 in the shot put with Kierrah Butler getting the win thanks to a throw of 35’9” that was two inches better than Destiny Monica’s 35’9”, while Liverpool’s Trinity Gray (29 feet) was third. Butler later finished fourth in the discus (92’11”) behind Lavalley, with Monica (86’7”) sixth.
Shayla Webb went to the top in the long jump, unleashing a season-best 17’3 ¾” that no one else got close to. Then Webb won a second time in the triple jump, going 36’ ¼” to pull clear of a field that included Marissa Baskin, who was third by going 32’11”.
Brittany House cleared 4’10” to win the high jump and top Meghan Milazzo, who was second (4’8”) as Brown and Cassie Baldwin shared third place. In the 100 hurdles, House, in 16.37 seconds, took second place, just behind Maxwell (16.28 seconds), Sarah Davis was third (2:22.78) and Annina Marullo fourth (2:23.57) in the 800.
Mia Pestle made it to third place in the 3,000-meter run in 11:03.38. Emily Dembowski was fourth in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 8:04.85 and Abbey Szumloz was fifth (1:10.37) in the 400 hurdles.
Marullo, Dembowski, Haley Pestle and Headen Wilson went 10:18.85 in the 4×800 relay for second place as Woytowicz, Kurz, Kristina Moore and Abby Haley got Liverpool third place in 10:45.94. Donia Alizadeh, Asia Couillard, Amanda Reilly and Amber Malone were third in the 4×100 in 54.09 seconds for C-NS.
