No small-school side could top what the Skaneateles girls indoor track and field team accomplished during last Saturday’s Jack Morse Kickoff Meet at SRC Arena.
During the morning session, the girls Lakers picked up 40 points and got fourth place in a 17-team field. Only large schools Baldwinsville, Liverpool and West Genesee fared better as the Skaneateles boys took seventh place with 27 points.
Skaneateles won the girls 4×400 relay as Melissa Biver, Maddie Peterson, Jessica Patalino and Mia Grosso went four minutes, 25.51 seconds to hold off CBA (4:26.23) by less than a second for the top spot.
Peterson and Grasso returned in the distance medley relay, joining Emme Conan and Natalie Condon as they went 4:33.11 to get second place behind West Genesee’s 4:25.05.
Conan was third in the individual 55-meter dash in 7.72 seconds, while Biver, Bella Capozza, Gianna Eidel and Evangelina Vitsaxaki were fourth in the 4×200 relay in 2:01.99.
Capozza, Condon, Nicole Derosa and Georgia McSwain were fourth in the 4×800 relay in 11:19.03. Capozza and Ellie Peterson were eighth in the 55-meter hurdles in a combined 25.05 seconds.
Nieve Morse and Edan Howard were fifth in the shot put with combined throws of 47’3 ¾”.Capozza and Biver got seventh place in the long jump, with Reagan Evans and Sarah Brennan sixth in the weight throw. Rylee Button and Sophia Casler finished seventh in the high jump.
A big highlight for the Skaneateles boys team came in the 55 hurdles, where Brahm Malcolm and Nicola Kunz had times of 17.93 seconds that gave them the victory over runner-up Liverpool, who had 18.21 seconds.
Caleb Bender, Cross Bianchi, Patrick Hackler and Jacob Nesbitt were fourth in the distance medley in 4:05.17. John Ryan and Tahjin Blackiston rose to fifth place in the long jump with total leaps of 32’8 ¾”.
Tyler Priest and Luke Peterson got to fourth place in the weight throw with total throws of 54’4 ¾”. Ryan Willcox, with a triple jump of 36’1 ¾”, earned sixth-place points by himself. The Lakers were also ninth in the 4×400 in 4:11.59 and ninth in the 4×200 in 1:49.11 as Kunz cleared 5 feet in the high jump.
