The Cazenovia boys indoor track and field team’s improvement continued to show in the Jan. 14 afternoon session of the John Arcaro Memorial Invitational held at Onondaga Community College’s SRC Arena.
With 47 points, the Lakers edged out Nottingham (46 points) for that top-five spot as Liverpool, with 125.5 points, held off Fayetteville-Manlius (109.5 points) to finish in front.
In the 4×200 relay, Cazenovia went to the top spot as Alec Boone, Sean McPherson, James Pavelchak and Ray Satchwell posted one minute, 38.64 seconds, just enough to get ahead of runner-up F-M, who was second in 1:38.90.
Boone went on to take third place in the long jump, going 19 feet 1 ¾ inches, while Satchwell had a sixth-place triple jump of 36’9 ¾” and McPherson gained sixth place in the 300-meter dash in 38.50 seconds.
Noah DeRochie, Cormac Race, Jacob Olkowski and Zach Wendel went 9:44.34 in the 4×800 relay to get fourth place. Justin Gagnon took fifth place in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.13 seconds, while Olkowski was sixth in 9.41 seconds before an eighth-place pole vault clearance of 9 feet.
In the throwing events, Angelo Annotto climbed to fourth place in the weight throw, heaving it 38’3 ½”. Will Kmetz got seventh place in the shot put with a throw of 38’10 ¼” as Collin Killany cleared 5’3” to tie for sixth in the high jump.
Cazenovia fared even better a week later in the morning session of the Fred Kirschenheiter Memorial Invitational, moving to fourth place with 54 points, trailing only Liverpool, Baldwinsville and Marcellus.
Yet another Lakers relay win came in the 4×400, where Boone, McPherson, Pavelchak and Angelo Annotto went 3:43.69 to top Homer (3:45.86) and prevail. Satchwell joined McPherson, Boone and Pavelchak to help Cazenovia improve to 1:38.31 in the 4×200, but settle for third place.
Satchwell had a third-place triple jump of 37’4 ½” as Aiden Emhoff finished sixth (34’6”), Satchwell also taking seventh place in the long jump. Kmetz improved to 39’4” in the shot put and finished fourth, with Nate Spangler (37’2 ½”) in seventh place, but improving to fourth in the weight throw (43’9 ½”) ahead of Annotto (40’1 ½”) in sixth place.
Pavelchak was fourth in the 55 sprint in exactly seven seconds. Boone was sixth in the 300 (38.23 seconds) and Gagnon got seventh place in the 55 hurdles. The Lakers finished eighth in the 4×800 in 9:58 flat.
Chittenango took part in the morning session of the Jan. 14 Arcaro meet and earned 32 points on the boys side to finish eighth in a 13-team field. Mike Capeling provided the big highlight when he won the 1,000 in 2:41.22, more than a second ahead of Baldwinsville’s Adam Davis (2:42.22).
Nick Stanton also contended, in the long jump, going 19’4 ½” to finish second behind Weedsport’s Steven Gilfus, who went 20’1 ½”. Brady Lewis got eighth place in the weight throw with a toss of 37’2 ½”, while Joe Mosack was 10th in the weight throw.
Ersilio Cerminero, who was eighth in the 1,000 in 2:54.42, made his way to sixth place in the 3,200-meter run in 10:40.03, with Matt Morak ninth and Dave Gratien 10th. Jacob Blaszkow finished 10th in the 600 in 1;34.89 as Morak, Nick Stanton, Jacobi Dwyer and Caleb Prenoveau got fifth place in the 4×200 in 1:43.07.
The girls Bears had just one point from McKayla Capeling, Sarah Gratien, Lailah Emad and Alex Rheaume, who were eighth in the 4×400 relay in 5:13.18.. Mia Morgillo was ninth in the long jump (13’1 ½”) and 10th in the 55 hurdles as Capeling took 11th place in the 1,000.
A week later, in the afternoon session of the Kirschenheiter Invitational, Chittenango’s boys earned 51 points and a sixth-place finish in a 14-team field.
Cerminero went 10:47.19 in the 3,200-meter run, making it to third place as Dave Gratien (10:56.16) was sixth. This was before Blaszkow, Capeling, Prenoveau and Dylan Price got third place in the 4×400 in 3;55.98. Price, Blaszkow, Prenoveau and Morak went 9:04.16 in the 4×800 and landed in third place.
In the long jump, Stanton went 19’7” to finish in third place. Dwyer took third place in the 300 in 39.16 seconds, edging Stanton (39.28 seconds) in fourth place. Capeling took fifth place in the 600 in 1:33.21, with Prenoveau in eighth place. Stanton was sixth (6.96 seconds) and Dwyer seventh (7.06 seconds) in the 55 sprint. Lewis was sixth (34’3”) in the weight throw.
