More wins came for the Baldwinsville indoor track and field team in the form of a clean sweep of Saturday’s morning session of the Fred Kirschenheiter Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena.
The boys Bees finished with 167 points, nearly double the total by runner-up West Genesee (87 points), while the B’ville girls had 146.33 points to hold off Fayetteville-Manlius (109 points) for the top spot.
Nate Jaquint led the Bees as he was victorious in the 55-meter hurdles, edging Phoenix’s Jacob Marr, 8.21 seconds to Marr’s 8.24, with Josh Scholten taking eighth place in 8.92 seconds and also taking ninth in the 300-meter dash as DaPrano (39.02 seconds) finished fifth.
Connor McManus needed 2:41.77 to beat the field in the 1,000-meter run as Sam Kellner got third place in 2:48.19. B’ville also won the 4×400 relay as Cole Peters, Michael Lawrence, Evan DaPrano and Kieran Sheridan posted 3:37.34 to beat F-M (3:45.31) by nearly eight seconds. Then Sheridan, in the 600-meter run, won in 1:25.12 as Adam Davis (1:29.33) completed a 1-2 Bees sweep.
In the high jump, Jaquint earned a second individual title when he cleared 6 feet as no one else topped 5’10”. Jaquint was fourth (19’3 1/4″) and Scholten fifth (18’8 1/4″) in the long jump.
Later, in the 4×200 relay, the Bees won again as DaPrano, Sheridan, Peters and Zion Hayes got 1:38.21, well clear of Cazenovia’s 1:40.84. Lawrence, McManus, Sam Kellner and Joe Licameli were second in the 4×800 relay in 9:00.22 to F-M’s 8:30.89.
Alex Garcia claimed the shot put with a top throw of 46’3 1/4″, with Cameron Majchrzak (44’8 3/4″) claiming third place. Majchrzak took his turn at the top in the weight throw by heaving it 47’1 1/2″, with Judson Fletcher (36’5″) in fourth place. Jae Lee, who was eighth in in the triple jump, won the pole vault by clearing 11’6″ as Aidan Priest (9 feet) was sixth.
Hayes, in the 55-meter dash, was second in 6.86 seconds, just behind WG’s Esisas Brumfield (6.84). Ben Timmons got to third place in the 3,200-meter run in 10:03.22, with Adam Davis seventh in 10:23.13, and Timmons was third in the mile in 4:40.27 as Licameli (4:55.93) got fifth place.
The B’ville girls featured Adrianna Straughter, who in 8.77 seconds was the only competitor in the 55 hurdles to break the nine-second mark as Allyson Surowick was fourth in 9.42 seconds. Then, in the high jump, Straughter cleared 5’1″ to beat Corcoran’s Kiari Hameed by one inch.
Karen Ekure earned another 300-meter victory in 42.03 seconds, chased by Laureen Addario, who finished third in 43.71 seconds, Ekure also taking sixth place in the high jump. In the triple jump, Addario rose to second place in 34’6″ behind East Syracuse Minoa’s Mia Montgomery (34’11”).
In the shot put, Anna Miller won with a toss of 30’11 1/4″, with Danielle Marsell getting third place (29’9 1/4″) and then winning the weight throw by going 37’4″, well clear of Miller (27’10”) in fifth place. Maya Hewitt tied for second in the pole vault, clearing 7’6″.
Anna Demer, Emme Foote, Brianna Natoli and Tina Bartelli gained second place (4:25.89) behind WG (4:18.02) in the 4×400, while in the 4×800 Patricia Conlan, Olivia Creelman, Makayla Spicer and Elizabeth Fawwaz were second in 10:44.16 to F-M’s winning 9:50.42.
A third runner-up finish in relays came in the 4×200, where Ekure, Addario, Peyton Fleming and Sara Goodwin posted 1:53.21, topped only by Corcoran’s 1:50.81. Fleming also finished sixth in the long jump (14’2″) as Maggie Walikis got ninth place after taking sixth (31’6 3/4″) in the triple jump.
Creelman, in 3:12.54, beat out Fawwaz (3:17.82) for third place in the 1,000 as Conlan got third place in the 600 in 1:47 flat and Demer finished seventh. Creelman got sixth place and Fawwaz seventh in the 1,500-meter run as Annabelle Horan was seventh in the 3,000-meter run.
