In between all the wet stretches of weather, it warmed up, and dried up, long enough for the East Syracuse Minoa and Jamesville-DeWitt track and field teams to open their respective spring campaigns on the first Monday of April.
ESM’s activity involved a three-team meet against Fowler and Auburn, one where the Spartans dominated on the girls end, prevailing 123-17 over the Falcons and 114-27 over the Maroons.
Sweeping the field events, the ESM girls had Mia Montgomery go 14 feet 10 inches to tie Sophie Hartz in the long jump and, on her own, with the triple jump with a top attempt of 34’1 ½”. Lindsey Crego threw the discus 105’9” and claimed the shot put with a toss of 30’6 ½”.
Jennah Ferrari cleared 5’1” to win the high jump, while Alexis Garn topped 7’6” in the pole vault to beat Amanda Szatanek (7 feet) and Ferrari, who was third.
Mackenzie Bourdon, who was second in the shot put, won twice on the oval, claiming the 100-meter hurdles in 16.9 seconds and the 400 hurdles in 1:16 flat. Sarah Tingley and Marina Lopez each ran 3,000 meters in 13:08.0, with Lopez second in the 1,500-meter run as Kat Boland (1:06.4) edged Jacinta Hensinger (1:06.5) in the 400-meter dash.
Together, Hensinger and Bourdon, along with Boland and Sami Wysocki, were victorious in the 4×400 relay in 4:25.3, while Montgomery and Wysocki joined Marissa Greiner and Kaylee DeLucia to help ESM take the 4×100 relay in 52.7 seconds.
Though it was a bit closer in the boys meet, ESM beat Auburn 88-52 while taking out Fowler 125-15. Jesse Hodge claimed a pair of events, clearing 9’6” to win the pole vault and going 55.9 seconds to finish first in the 400 sprint. Hunter Bruner edged Greg Buck, 18’5” to 18’4 ¼”, in the long jump and then had a top triple jump of 37’2”.
Isaiah Brooks roared to first place in the 110 hurdles in 15.9 seconds, with Nick Berg going 10:54.6 in the 3,200-meter run. In the discus, Ladd won with a top throw of 117’3 ¾”, just ahead of Brendan Reed’s 112’1 ¾’.
J-D’s girls team smashed Fulton 129-10, with Alexandria Payne leading the way. Payne ran the 100 sprint in 13.1 seconds and claimed the 200 in 26.5 seconds, going from there to the high jump, where she won a third event by clearing 5 feet.
Lauren Nandal swept the shot put (30’ ½”) and discus (73’10”), while Ailish McDevitt had a top triple jump of 29’ ½”. Gabrielle Tanksley set an early-season standard in the pole vault by clearing 8 feet.
Back on the oval, Sophia Vinciguerra ran the 1,500 in 5:06.8, while Abigail Levitt (2:41.4) beat Kathryn Arendt (2:44.6) in the 800. Ayla Erwin (11:42.4) and Abby Palin (11:50.6) went 1-2 in the 3,000 as Megan Brown won the 400 hurdles in 1:24.3 and Monica Hernandez took the 100 hurdles in 18.5 seconds.
Vinciguerra was part of J-D’s successful 4×400 relay team that finished in 4:41.40, while Hernandez and McDevitt ran legs in the 4×100 relay (54 seconds flat) and J-D covered the 4×800 in 11:09.1.
It was pretty much the same in the boys meet, J-D getting a 117-24 win over Fulton. David Fikhman set the tone with wins in the 200 (23.2 seconds) and 400 (54.9 seconds) sprints, with Mike Potamianos going 11.6 seconds to take the 100.
Patrick Dye roared to a time of 9:49.4 in the 3,200, with Alex Carbacio edging Ryan Bradford, 16.9 seconds to 17.2, in the 110 high hurdles. Potamianos and Fikhman ran legs in the 4×100 that J-D claimed in 46 seconds flat as the Rams also took the 4×400 in 3:46.9.
Sweeping the field, J-D got Henry Middleton to throw the shot put 38’2” and the discus 117’4”, with Joe Esposito second in both events. Bradford had a top triple jump of 39’11”, with Murad Amurlayev going 20 feet in the long jump as Alex Le and Chris Blust both cleared 11 feet in the pole vault. Trey Greene had a winning high jump of 5’6”.
Both J-D and ESM had another meet on Wednesday, and the Red Rams swept Cortland as the Spartans doing the same to Homer.
When the J-D girls routed Cortland 117-20, Payne went 15.5 seconds in the 100 hurdles, won the 200 in 26.6 seconds and flew 17’10” in the long jump. Tanksley took the pole vault (7’6”) and Lauren Saletsky cleared 4’8” in the high jump as Nandal took the shot put (30’6”) and Mariah Williams threw the discus 75’3”.
Elsewhere, Allison Virgo broke through with a top triple jump of 30’2 ¼” as, on the oval, Leavitt ran 3,000 meters in 11:32.6. Grace Bridge joined in by taking the 800 in 2:31.5.
In the boys meet, J-D beat Cortland 115-26, again with Fikhman getting multiple wins as he edged Amurlayev, 11.3 seconds to 11.4, in the 100 and then won the 400 in 51.4 seconds as he, along with Potamianos and Joey Armenta, all went 22.9 seconds in the 200.
Dye ran the mile in 4:33.5 and then won the 800 in 2:06 flat. Carbacio would claim the 110 hurdles (16.8 seconds), just ahead of Markos Perkopoulos, who rebounded by winning the 400 hurdles in 1:06.5.
Greene was victorious in the long jump, going 20’5” as Le cleared 11 feet in the pole vault. Takuya LeClair joined Greene in topping 5’6” in the high jump as Bradford had a top triple jump of 40’2 ¼”and Middleton threw the discus 116’5”.
ESM’s girls topped Homer 97-44, with Mackenzie Bourdon getting first place in the 100 hurdles (18.1 seconds) and 400 hurdles (1:22.4). Wysocki claimed the 100 sprint in 13.2 seconds, with Boland and Hensinger both going 1:06.2 in the 400 sprint.
The Spartans won five of six field events, two of them by Montgomery, who went 36’6 ¼” in the triple jump and 14’9 ¾” in the long jump. Crego threw the discus 67’7” as Sara Bourdon had a winning shot put toss of 30’5”. Ferrari cleared 4’6” to claim the high jump as ESM swept the 4×100 (53.7 seconds), 4×400 (4:50.4) and 4×800 (11;15.0) relays.
At the same time, ESM’s boys fell to Homer 81-60, claiming just one race on the oval from Brooks, who won the 110 hurdles in 15.7 seconds and also cleared 5’4” in the high jump.
Hodge topped 10 feet in the pole vault as Ny’zhier Jefferson threw the shot put 40’5” to edge Buck (39’10”) and Gavin Stevens had a winning discus toss of 110’2” to beat Emir Karic (105’6 ½”) and Berg (104’9”). Bruner won the triple jump by going 37’4”.
