Indoor track and field teams from Jamesville-DeWitt and Fayetteville-Manlius would battle for position at the top of the standings during last Saturday’s afternoon session of the Jack Morse Kickoff Meet at SRC Arena.
In the girls event, J-D had 73 points, second only to Cicero-North Syracuse’s 78 points, while F-M had 65 points for third place. The boys meet had the Hornets (57 points) edge the Red Rams (54.5 points) for third place, just behind Central Square’s 58 points as East Syracuse Minoa was seventh with 34 points.
Again, Alexandria Payne led the J-D girls, winning the 55-meter hurdles in 8.55 seconds as no one else broke the nine-second park. Payne and Monica Hernandez-Olivera won the team portion in 18.52 seconds.
When Payne cleared 5 feet 2 inches in the high jump, she won that event, too, and with Laetticia Bazile topping 4’8” J-D claimed that event with 9’10” combined as ESM’s Jennah Ferrari and Allison Stefanovich was third, topping 8’8”.
J-D’s Marianah Williams won the individual shot put with a throw of 28’9 ¾” as she and Rachel Setek were fifth in the team standings. Amber Hamernik had a top long jump of 14’5 ½” as she and Anna Ferrick were second (28’2 ¾”) to C-NS (28’7 ¼”) and F-M was fourth with 26’7” and ESM eighth.
F-M’s Gwen Shepardson and Fiona Mejico were third in 19.93 seconds and ESM (22.00 seconds) got seventh place. Shepardson, Mejico, Cady Barns and Samantha Pynn were second in the 4×200 relay in 1:54.51 to Corcoran’s 1:54.10 as ESM was sixth in 2:01.82.
Fresh off yet another title won at the Nike Cross Nationals, Sophie Ryan, Phoebe White, Rebecca Walters and Palmer Madsen claimed the 4×400 relay in 4:08.11 as J-D’s had Payne, Ana Dieroff, Katie Lutz and Ali Durkin finish second in 4:15.79.
Madsen, Ryan, Walters and White returned to win the distance medley relay in 4:21.37, chased by J-D as Evan Wisiniewski, Sophia Vinciguerra, Denise Yaeger and Keely Whipple were third in 4:46.59.
Claire Walters won the 1,500-meter run in 4:45.62, joining Alex Villalba, Grace Kaercher and Emily Cook for a win in the relay in 20:25.58 as J-D (21:47.52) got third place.Susan Bansbach, Lejla Borcilo, Chloe Bullough and Rory Pfohl put F-M in third place in the 4×800 relay in 10:51.76, with J-D fifth in 10:59.94.
ESM’s Mia Montgomery and Lashae Benjamin got to second place in the 55-meter dash in 15.82 seconds to Syracuse ITC’s winning 15.46 as J-D (16.31 seconds) slid into fifth place. Ferrari and Maria Markert cleared 15 feet in the pole vault for second place behind Westhill’s 17-foot effort.
Montgomery, with a triple jump of 35’11 ¼”, was a quarter of an inch behind C-NS’s Shayla Webb (35’11 ½”), but it was F-M winning as Barns and Pynn went 66’7 ¼” ahead of J-D’s duo of Yaeger and Allison Virgo, who went 63’7 ¼”.
On the boys side, J-D claimed the distance medley, where Haberle Conlon, Mike Potamianos, Joey Armenta and Fidel Martinez got a time of 3:50.56 to beat everyone, including F-M, who settled for fourth place in 4:02.93.
Alex Carbacio and Jack Underhill were second (18.70 seconds) to C-NS (16.47) in the 55 hurdles. Brendan Sharon cleared 10 feet in the pole vault and got third place.
Parker Cote, Josh Hillers, Sam Glisson and Logan Mimaroglu were third in the 4×800 in 8:55.79, just ahead of F-M (8:56.71) in fourth place as ESM was seventh in 10:08.86.Murad Amurlayev and Haberle Conlon were fourth in the 55 sprint in 15.11 seconds.
F-M completed a 4×400 boys-girls sweep as Geoff Howles, Casey Coleman, Jack Duncanson and Garrett Brennan won in 3:48.49, edging Corcoran (3:49.71) as J-D was sixth and ESM got eighth place.
Nolan Chiles, Max Perry, Mark Hanlon and Peyton Geehrer gained second place in the mile relay in 19:53.77 to C-NS’s 19:21.51, with J-D’s Nick Mannion, Alan Gao, Joe DiDomenico and Ahviere Reese third in 20:10.08. The Hornets were fourth (1:39.83) and the Rams fifth (1:44.41) in the 4×200.
Romello Mitchell won the individual high jump, clearing 5’8”, as he and Aaron Costanza got second place in the team event with 10’6” to C-NS’s 10’8” and Carbacio was fifth for J-D.
Before that, Mitchell and Ryan Serp were third in the long jump, going 36’9 ¼” between them as Serp and Coleman were third in the triple jump with 73’9 ¾”. ESM featured Gavin Stevens and Devin Harrigan rising to fourth place in the shot put with combined throws of 72’4 ½”.
Christian Brothers Academy competed in the morning session, earning 14 points. More than half of them came from Deja Jones, Olivia Morganti, Cori Knox and Marni Rathbun taking second place in the 4×400 in 4:26.23, with Knox, Rathbun, Morganti and Julia Sullivan third in the distance medley in 4:37.11.
