Now it was time for the Cazenovia boys indoor track and field team to enter the post-season fray, and it did so with a strong performance in Wednesday night’s Onondaga High School League Division I championships at Onondaga Community College’s SRC Arena.
With a total of 91 points, the Lakers beat everyone in the 10-team field except Westhill, who won with 134.5 points. Homer was third with 72 points as Chittenango could only manage 17 points for ninth place.
Ray Satchwell personally accounted for 22 points in field events, including the high jump, where he cleared 5 feet 8 inches and won because he had fewer misses than teammate Dalton Sevier, who cleared the same distance.
Satchwell rose to second place in the triple jump with a best attempt of 39’5 ¼” behind Westhill’sBen Eassa (40’8”) as Aiden Emhoff was fourth, going 37’3 ¾”. Satchwell also got fifth place in the long jump, going 18’1 ¼”a Slater D eLeone (17’10 ½”) finished sixth.
Zach Wendel, Justin Ossont, Cormac Race and Jack McDonald got second place in the 4×400 relay in 4:01.90 behind Westhill’s 3:55.57. Wendel finished eighth in the 600-meter run.
James McPherson needed 10:04.98 to finish second behind Homer’s Teddy Mercer (10:03.99) in the 3,200-meter run, with Noah DeRoche seventh. McPherson got a fourth-place time of 4:51.84 in the mile and, with Race, DeRoche and Wendel, took third in the 4×800 relay in 9:49.44.
Cazenovia contended in the 4×200 relay, seeing the quartet of McDonald, DeLeone, James Pavelchak and Jacob Olkowski post1:40.50, trailing only Westhill’s winning 1:39.44. Collin Killiany was third in the pole vault, clearing 10 feet.
Pavelchak went 39.51 seconds in the 300-meter dash, taking third place as Olkowski (39.74 seconds) was fourth. In the 55-meter dash, Pavelchak finished fourth in 7.05 seconds, with Olkowski fourth in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.25 seconds.
Chittenango’s lone victory came in the weight throw, where Joe Mosack, with a personal-best toss of 40’4”, beat out Westhill’s Evan Ballard (39’4 ½”) by nearly a foot.
Also for the Bears, Ersilio Cerminaro finished fifth in the 3,200 in 10:28.52, and took sixth place in the mile (4:53.69) behind McPherson. Wes Stanton was seventh in the 55 hurdles.
As for the Chittenango girls team, it gained 33 points for fifth place in its OHSL Division I meet, winning the 4×800 as Piper Beckwith, McKenzie Dombroski, McKayla Capeling and Lailah Emad posted 10:50.85 to beat runner-up Westhill (10:58.65) by nearly eight seconds.
On her own, Dombroski took second place in the 3,000-meter run in 11:28.34 as Maddy Heller (13:12.27) was sixth. Dombroski also was fourth in the 1,000-meter run in 3:22.78.
McKayla Capeling got sixth place in the 1,000 (3:23.56), but improved to third place in the 1,500-meter run in 5:27.06. Brooke Price, Piper Beckwith, Tamia Williams and Taylor Glazier were sixth in the 4×400, with the Bears seventh in the 4×200. Marilla Bongiovanni had a fifth-place long jump of 13’2 ½”.
