In between all of the raindrops last weekend, Christian Brothers Academy still managed to host its annual track and field Brother Basilian Invitaional, with East Syracuse Minoa and Bishop Grimes also part of the field.
With 54 points, the CBA girls finished third, not far behind runner-up Vernon-Verona-Sherrill (58 points) as Skaneateles won with 107 points. ESM made it to fifth place with 44 points.
Deja Jones put the Brothers in the win column by running 3,000 meters in 11 minutes, 10.26 seconds, the chasing pack including Lea Kyle, who finished third in 11;25.26. In the 1,500-meter run, Kyle was second in 5:06.52 as Skaneateles star Julia Willcox won in 4:58.49 and the Brothers’ Bri Pucci was fifth in 5:19.98.
Skylar Decker, in 17.21 seconds, beat everyone in the 100-meter hurdles except Raenah Campbell (Skaneateles), who won in 16.04 seconds. Cory Knox took third place in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:10.37, where Campbell won with a Skaneateles school-record 1:04.89.
Elissa Kempisty was third in the long jump with a leap of 14’2”, and also got fourth place in the triple jump by going 32’1 ½”. Marni Rathbun made it to fourth place in the 800-meter run in 2:38.44, just behind ESM’s Sage Almstead, who was third in 2:36.72.
ESM also saw Mia Montgomery have a second-place triple jump of 33’5”, trailing only VVS’s Katja Meyer (33’10 ½”), while Jennah Ferrari took second in the high jump, clearing 5 feet, but having Mia Grasso (Skaneateles) clear that height with fewer misses.
Lindsey Crego finished second in the discus, tossing it 91’7”, with Sara Bourdon getting fourth place in the shot put, going 28’6 ¾” to edge Crego (28’1 ½”) in fifth place. Mackenzie Bourdon was sixth in both the 100-meter hurdles (17.83 seconds) and 400 hurdles (1:13.46).
Kassandra Burr, Melanie DeFeo, Katherine Jacobs and Sage Almstead were fourth in the 4×800 relay in 10;47.04, with Montgomery, Sami Wysocki (who was seventh in the 100 sprint), Marissa Greiner and Kaylee DeLucia fifth in the 4×100 relay in 54.09 seconds.
More modest totals were found in the boys Basilian meet as ESM had 26 points for seventh place in a 21-team field (Nottingham won with 66 points) and host CBA gained 14 points and finished 13th overall, most of those points from Dominic Morganti’s victory in the 3,200-meter run in 9:48.24 over VVS’s Owen Walker (9:50.61).
ESM’s boys team was victorious in the 4×800 as Dan Barry, Nate Castor, Jared Henry and Tyler Hodge finished in 8:45.57, beating out Tully (8:49.27) for top honors as CBA’s quarter of Adam Kantor, Joel Gaffney, Zach Medicis and Dan Melvin were fourth in 8:54.26. Henry added a sixth-place finish in the 800 in 2:09.71.
The Spartans also had Isaiah Brooks nearly win the 110 high hurdles, going 15.67 seconds to finish just behind Carthage’s Justin Runge (15.65) as Runge also won the 400 hurdles and 400 sprint. Cody Laroche unleashed a fourth-place long jump of 18’ ½” Emir Karic finish fifth in the shot put with a throw of 39’3 ¾”.
Grimes got half of its points from Nigel Duffus, who finished third in the discus with a throw of 104’7” and added a fourth-place shot put toss of 39’8 ½”. Eight more came from Nate Gay, who cleared 5’8” in the high jump to finish second behind Tully’s Jason Phelps, also the winner in the pole vault by clearing 13 feet. The Cobras’ Chris Larson sped to fifth place in the mile in 4:44.78.
Meanwhile, Jamesville-DeWitt saw its teams compete in two big meets, starting with the boys getting to fourth place in the New Hartford Invitational with 57 points, trailing only Cicero-North Syracuse, West Genesee and the host Spartans.
Mike Potamianos won the 400 sprint in 51.52 seconds, nearly two full seconds ahead of the field. Also, Potamianos, David Fikhman, Murad Amurlayev and Fidel Martinez won the 1,600 sprint medley relay in 3:41.14.
Patrick Dye was victorious in the 3,200, going 9:38.81 to beat New Hartford’s Josh Farmer (9:43.42) and the field as Dye, Fikhman, Martinez and Sam Glisson were second in the distance medley relay in 11:10.35. Trey Greene got fifth place in the long jump with a 20-foot leap as Amurlayev finished seventh.
Alex Carbacio got fifth place in the 110 hurdles in 16.77 seconds and Boykins fifth (2:10.34) in the 800. The Rams were third in the 4×100 in 45.55 seconds and also third in the 4×200 relay in 1:38.28 as Middleton took seventh place in the discus and Sabri Hafizuddin was eighth in the 400 hurdles. Chris Blust and Alex Le were sixth and seventh, respectively, in the pole vault, while Markos Petkopoulos was seventh and Donovan Coughlin eighth in the triple jump.
During Saturday’s Cooper City Classic at Camden High School (moved from Rome Free Academy Stadium), J-D’s girls earned 51 points, just behind West Genesee (52 points) in fourth place as RFA took the top spot with 106.33 points.
Again, Alexandria Payne stood out for the Red Rams, edging RFA’s Tekitha Posey-Barry, 13.08 seconds to 13.14, in the 100 sprint and unleashing a winning long jump of 17 feet. Payne, Hannah Butler, Sarah Hildreth and Ailish McDevitt were second in the 1,600 sprint medley relay in 4:29.47, and Payne, Hildreth, McDevitt and Emma Clardy helped J-D take fifth (52.75 seconds) in the 4×100.
On her own, Butler had a second-place finish in the 800 in 2:22.52 behind West Genesee’s Carly Benson (2:20.31). Gabrielle Tanksley was second in the pole vault, clearing 8’6”, while Sophia Vinciguerra was fourth in the 1,500 in 5:11.83. the Rams finished sixth (11;10.85) in the 4×800.
