Each of the Christian Brothers Academy track and field teams would make strong moves during Thursday’s Section III Class B-1 championships at Westhill, and the boys would nearly get to the top.
With 125 points, the boys Brothers beat everyone in the nine-team field except host Westhill-Bishop Ludden, who won with 144 points. Meanwhile, the CBA girls had a strong showing, too, earning 85 points to get fourth place, not far from the winning total of 144 points posted by Skaneateles.
To lead the boys effort, Tom SanGiacomo won two sprints and helped win two relays, while Dominic Morganti nearly swept the three longest distance runs.
In the 100-meter dash, SanGiacomo went 11.25 seconds, with the chasing pack including Zach Walsh, who took third place in 11.56 seconds as Gavin Collins (11.96 seconds) was sixth.
SanGiacomo rolled to a win in the 200-meter dash in 22.75 seconds, and CBA claimed six of the top 13 spots, though only Walsh, in fifth place (23.90 seconds) earned points as Collins took seventh place in 24.55 seconds.
In the 400-meter dash, SanGiacomo nearly made it three wins, but settled for second place in 52.07 seconds behind Marcellus’ Patrick McGuane (51.76 seconds) as Walsh was fourth in 53.01 seconds, with Brendan Keeney seventh (53.54 seconds) and James Pavelchak ninth in 54.53 seconds.
To continue that control of sprints, CBA won the 4×100 relay as Collins, paired with Jaden Mitchell, Jake Vanpatten and Brett Vanpatten, went 45.73 seconds to fend off Westhill-Ludden (45.82 seconds) and Cazenovia (46.19 seconds) at the line.
Another relay win came in the 4×400, where SanGiacomo, joining Walsh, Pat Carey and Brendan Keeney, roared to a time of 3:30.74, leaving South Jefferson (3:38.12) and the rest of the field more than seven seconds behind.
Morganti was victorious in the 3,200-meter run in 10:18.72, nearly 16 seconds ahead of the field, and maintained that dominance in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, where he went 10:41.70 to hold off Holland Patent’s Chris Celecki (10:46.21)as Nihkill Reddy was eighth in 11:55.64.
Morganti also ran the mile in 4:34.51 to earn second place behind Syracuse ITC’s Solomon Lawrence, who won in 4:31.50. Reddy got to third place in the 800-meter run in 2:00.84, with Brendan Keeney fifth in 2:09.06 and Tim Schmitt (2:11.75) in seventh place.
Carey made it to third place in the 110 high hurdles in 16.06 seconds and finished fourth in the 400 hurdles in 1:01.04, also taking fourth place in the high jump by clearing 5’6”. Shawn Moreth earned 2,084 points in the five-event pentathlon for third place behind Solvay’s Nick Ferri (2,403) and Westhill-Ludden’s Owen Hoyne (2,388).
Schmitt, Dan Melvin, Zach Kinnally and Josh Pucci earned fourth place in the 4×800 relay in 9:20.56. Mitchell would record a fourth-place long jump of 19’10” as Tyler Leonard took 10th place in the triple jump.
Moving to the girls meet, CBA’s Anna Schug broke up the Skaneateles monopoly on sprints when she won the 200 in 25.75 seconds, nearly a full second ahead of the Lakers’ Cecilia Marrinan (26.55 seconds) in the runner-up spot.
Also getting a win in the distance races, the Brothers saw eighth-grader Olivia Morganti go 4:48.87 in the 1,500-meter run to beat Cazenovia’s Clara Rowles (4:54.02) by more than five seconds as Lea Kyle was seventh in 5;26.12.
Nafysa Williams, to win the high jump, had to clear 5 feet 3 inches to finish one inch better than Skaneateles’ Mia Grasso. Meanwhile, Elissa Kempisty claimed a victory in the triple jump where she went exactly 34 feet, and no one else broke the 33-foot mark. Kempisty also was third in the long jump, going 15’5 ½”.
Kate Lacasse was second in the 400 sprint in 1:00.50, just behind Skaneateles’ Maddie Peterson (1:00.18) as Claire Bargabos got third place in 1:00.69. Bargabos also took fourth place in the 100 sprint in 13.28 seconds.
Schug, Anna Langlois, Kiana Ferguson and Ryleigh Peterson went 50.51 seconds in the 4×100 relay, getting second place behind Skaneateles (50.24), who won all three relay events. Ferguson then unleashed a long jump of 15’7 ½” to finish second behind Cazenovia’s Maddy Gavitt (15’10”).
In the 4×800, Lucy Person, Kat Fletcher, Bri Pucci and Grace O’Connor got fourth place in 10:57.81. Cory Knox was sixth in the 400 hurdles in 1:15.89, while Pucci got eighth place in the 800 in 2:35.88.
