If everything worked out just as the Cazenovia girls track and field team wanted at Thursday’s Section III Class B-1 championships at Westhill,, it would put an end to the three-year reign of its fellow Lakers from Skaneateles.
That proved too tall of a task, though, and instead Cazenovia took third place with 101.33 points. Skaneateles, aided by a relay sweep and dominance in sprints, won with 144 points, holding off host Westhill-Bishop Ludden, who was second with 135 points.
Clara Rowles got Cazenovia into the win column on the oval, covering 3,000 meters in 10 minutes, 59.80 seconds, nearly half a minute ahead of Westhill-Ludden’s Genny Corcoran (11:23.62) at the finish line.
Meggie Hart won, too, going 7:25.89 to dominate the 2,000-meter steeplechase, with Westhill-Ludden’s Haylei Coolican (7:47.77) more than 21 seconds behind. Mya Walters was sixth, in 8:30.78, with Adrien Owens seventh in 8:37.78.
Before that, Rowles covered 1,500 meters in 4:54.02, but finished second to CBA eighth-grader Olivia Morganti (4:48.87) as Meggie Hart gained third place in 5:00.47. It was nearly the same in the 800-meter run, where Hart was second in 2:26.32 and Maria Stalder was third (2:27.59), both of them trailing Skaneateles’ Juila Willcox, who won in 2:23.66.
Maddy Gavitt nearly swept the jumping events. She went 15 feet 10 inches to take the long jump over CBA’s Kiana Ferguson (15’7 ½”),while Jess Macheda was fifth, going 15’ ¼”, and Katie Robbins was seventh, going 14’11 ½” as Tori Fischer was 10th.
In the triple jump, Gavitt went 32’9 ½”, beating everyone except CBA’s Elissa Kempisty, who won with 34 feet. Gavitt also got fifth place in the high jump, where he cleared 4’10” as Fischer tied for sixth, topping 4’8”. Robbins, seventh in the triple jump (29’7 ¼”), landed in fifth place in the pole vault, topping 8’6” as Gavitt (8 feet) had ninth place.
Jamie Joseph’s big push came in the shot put, where with a throw of 32’2 ¼” she finished second to Marcellus’ Johanna Sylcox, who won with 32’11 ½”. Joseph also got 11th place in the discus (69’7”) as Fischer was ninth, going 72’8”.
In the 4×400 relay, Stalder, Joseph, Mya Walters and Julia Barrett gained third place in a time of 10:24.56. Later, in the 4×100, Delaney Yates, Jess Macheda, Taylor Tilison and Paige Hunt snatched fourth place in 54.29 seconds, while Rowles, Stalder, Yates and Barrett were fourth (4:25.94) in the 4×400.
Jackie Gamlen took part in the five-event pentathlon, rising to fourth place by earning 1,754 points as Summer Steinhorst, with 1,290 points, took ninth place. Yates was fifth in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:14.92 and seventh in the 100-meter hurdles (17.86 seconds), while Katrina Wilson gained ninth place in the 400-meter dash in 1:07.68.
Cazenovia’s boys track team would pick up 41 points in its portion of the sectional B-1 meet, settling into sixth place in a nine-team field. Westhill-Ludden won it, needing 143 points to fend off a challenge from CBA, who got 125 points for second place.
Alec Boone contended in all of the sprints, going 11.53 seconds to finish second behind CBA’s Tom SanGiacomo in the 100, and then repeating that feat in the 200 by finishing in 23.53 seconds, well off SanGiacomo’s winning 22.75.
Boone paired with Jake Robbins, Elijah Wellington-Harper and Dan McKillop to get third place in the 4×100 relay in 46.19 seconds, just behind CBA (45.73 seconds) and Westhill-Ludden (45.82 seconds). Boone, Robbins, Brendan Coffey and Hunter Sattler were sixth in the 4×400 in 3:43.98.
Coffey had a great showing of his own in the mile, grabbing fourth place in 4:44.67 as Noah DeRochie (5:11.41) gained 10th place. In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, DeRochie finished fifth, rising to a time of 11:22.78. Sam DeLeon cleared 10’6” in the pole vault for his own fifth-place finish.
Nate Spangler, throwing the shot put 40’1”, made his way to fourth place, ahead of Will Kmetz (39 feet) in sixth place and Ben Nichols (37’11 ½”) as Chad Carges got 11th place with a 37-foot throw and Jacob Macheda earned 14th place (35’6 ½”). Christian Winkler was fifth in the discus, heaving it 111’8” as Spangler (110’2”) beat out Kmetz (109’11”) for seventh place.
Ray Satchwell made it to fifth place in the long jump, going 19’6”, while also taking seventh place (37’4 ¼”) in the triple jump. Jacob Olkowski was sixth in the pentathlon, earning 1,850 points. DeRochie, Elliott Hale, Saulo Ferreira and Justin Ossont were seventh in the 4×800 relay in 10:34.62. Robbins tied Satchwell for 11th in the high jump and was 16th in the 100.
