Just before the post-season meets got underway, indoor track and field teams from Solvay and Westhill-Bishop Ludden went to Utica College’s Hutton Dome to compete in last Friday’s Utica Challenge Invitational – and Bearcats throwing star Ashley Bosco made it memorable.
In one of her specialties, the shot put, Bosco unleashed a top throw of 38 feet 10 inches that broke the Solvay school record. It also beat the field at this even by four feet as South Lewis’ Kara Schindler (34’11”) finished second.
While Bosco couldn’t match that effort in the weight throw, she still finished third with a heave of 33’4 ¼”, not far from the winning 35’5” posted by Lansing’s Ashley Smith.
All told, the Bearcats earned 26 points, all of it from Bosco and Katie Harrington, who beat a large field in the high jump because she was the only athlete to clear 5 feet 1 inch. Four others cleared 5 feet, including Elizabeth Lemire (New Hartford) and Megan Milazzo (Liverpool), who tied for second.
Westhill-Ludden had just eight points in the boys meet and one point in the girls meet from Bella Lavigne’s eighth-place finish (8’6”) in the pole vault.
Warriors teammates Ben Eassa and Evan Watt both cleared 11 feet in the boys pole vault and tied for fifth place, splitting seven points between them. Tom Howard, Evan Watt, Cade Van Ornam and Cal Niezabytowski finished eighth in the 4×200 relay in one minute, 38.50 seconds.
