Two days before going to the Chittenango Invitational, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls track and field team barely won a head-to-head meet with Baldwinsville. But it proved a lot different once other powers, including Jamesville-DeWitt, got involved.
The Hornets earned 139 points to pull away from the rest of a 14-team field, including B’ville, who finished third as Liverpool was second with 98 points. J-D, boosted by Alexandria Payne’s victory in the pentathlon, was eighth with 37 points as East Syracuse Minoa got seven points.
In the featured Fleet Feet mile, F-M’s girls won again as Sophie Ryan, in a time of four minutes, 53.97 seconds, earned the victory over J-D’s Hannah Butler, who finished second in 4:59.08. The Hornets’ Phoebe White was third in 5:01.33 as Claire Walters (5:05.07) got fifth place and the Red Rams’ Sophia Vinciguerra was 10th.
Later, in the 3,000-meter run, the Hornets got 18 more points as Ryan prevailed in 9:52.88, chased by Walters, who was second in 10:12.97. To cap her big day, Ryan, joining Walters, Palmer Madsen and Christy Berge’, won the 4×800 relay in 9:43.18.
Madsen would go 59.03 seconds to win the 400-meter dash as Berge’ (1:01.75) completed a 1-2 sweep. In the 800-meter run, Rebecca Walters, in 2:20.59, was second to Liverpool’s Windsor Ardner (2:16.60) as Grace Perry was third in 2:28.86.
Cady Barns would win the long jump, going 16 feet 1 ¾ inches to edge Liverpool’s Meghan Milazzo (16’1 ½”) by a quarter of an inch as Barns also finished second (35’1 ¾”) to Cicero-North Syracuse’s Shayla Webb (36’1 ½”) in the triple jump. Barns also helped win the 4×400 relay, joining Madsen, Berge’ and Susan Bansbach as F-M posted 4:07.84, more than 10 seconds ahead of the field.
Gwenn Shepardson dominated the 100-meter hurdles, her time of 16.36 seconds the only one under the 17-second mark. In the 400-meter hurdles, Shepardson got third place in 1:08.60, with Sydney O’Dell fourth in 1:11.97.
Alex Villalba was fourth in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7:50.73, with Haleigh Pascual eighth. Bansach took ninth in the 100-meter dash, but helped Barns, Shepardson and O’Dell get fourth place in the 4×100 relay in 51.96 seconds. O’Dell was sixth in the high jump behind ESM’s Jennah Ferrari, who took fifth place by clearing 4’8”.
As for J-D, Payne had the best point totals in three events (800, long jump, high jump) and was second in the other two (100 hurdles, shot put) to finish with 2,982 points, well clear of a field that included F-M’s Grace Hausladen, who was fourth with 2,117 points.
Gabrielle Tanksley made it to second place in the pole vault, clearing 9 feet, but with more misses than South Jefferson’s Marlena Jacobs. Grace Bridge was sixth in the traditional mile race in 5:40.40, with Abby Palin (5:41.03) seventh. ESM’s Lindsey Crego was fourth in the discus with a throw of 95’2” and got sixth place in the shot put, tossing it 29’11”. J-D’s Lauren Nandal was seventh in the discus.
In the boys edition of the Chittenango Invitational, J-D, with 47 points, finished fifth, just ahead of F-M’s total of 44 points. Both were in the top half of a 23-team field paced by Cicero-North Syracuse, who won with 107 points.
David Fikhman won for J-D in the 400 sprint, going 50.51 seconds to beat Liverpool’s Khalil Wailes (50.98) by nearly half a second. Not content with that, Fikhman joined Mike Potamianos, Tyler Gabriel and Liam McFadden to win the 4×400 in 3:33.23 ahead of C-NS (3:34.85) and the field as F-M was fourth in 3:40.02.
Also for J-D, Ryan Bradford finished third in the 110 high hurdles in 16.20 seconds and ninth in the triple jump. Trey Greene, Seth Blair, Mike Potamianos and Murad Amurlayev were fourth in the 4×100 relay in 45.10 seconds.
On his own, Greene was fourth in the high jump, clearing 5’6”, while Chris Blust was fifth and Alex Le seventh in the pole vault, each of them clearing 11 feet. Greene added a sixth-place long jump of 19’ ½”.
F-M’s Romello Mitchell had 2,490 points to finish second in the pentathlon, with J-D’s Alex Carbacio third as he earned 2,391 points. Mitchell was just 64 points behind C-NS’s Jason Hughes (2,554 points) at the top.
Patrick Perry posted a time of 4:20.80 in the Fleet Feet Mile and was second behind Niskayuna’s Donovan Tucker (4:19.23)as Joe Walters (4:29.26) was sixth and J-D’s Patrick Dye was between them, getting fourth place in 4:27.79.
Elsewhere, Perry finished second in the 3,200-meter run in 9:39.70, with Ben Otis fourth in 9:55.04. Perry, Jack Boltman, Jack Duncanson and Garrett Brennan got third place in the 4×800 in 8:29.19. Brennan needed 2:00.80 to finish fourth in the 800.
Deion Travis was sixth in the discus with a heave of 112’7”. Stefan Mina took eighth place in the 400 hurdles, while Boltman was eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and Armando Adrian ninth in the 100 sprint.
