Another ambitious post-season gauntlet for the Fayetteville-Manlius indoor track and field teams got underway last Thursday night when it went to SRC Arena for the inaugural Salt City Athletic Conference championships.
And the girls Hornets would take the team title, earning 150 points to hold off Baldwinsville (130 points) for the top spot. Liverpool, with 81 points, was far back in third place.
An immediate 24 points came from a top-three sweep in the 3,000-meter run as Claire Walters prevailed in 10 minutes, 17.01 seconds, with Rebecca Walters (10:36.62) and Grace Kaercher (10:53.93) trailing.
Then it was Phoebe White taking the 1,000-meter run in 3:01.89, edging out Sophie Ryan (3:01.93) by inches. But Ryan won the 600-meter run in 1:39.18 to White’s 1:40.38 as Palmer Madsen (1:41.75) finished fourth.
Claire Walters got second place in the 1,500-meter run in 4:54.97, with Rebecca Walters third (4:56.70) and Alex Villalba fourth (4:57.86). But the Walters sisters paired with Ryan and Villalba to easily win the 4×800 relay in 9:48.08.
Cady Barns won the triple jump, her best leap going 36 feet 8 inches. Barns also got second place in the 300-meter dash in 43.14 seconds, with White third in 43.42 seconds. Gwen Shepardson was third in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.18 seconds.
F-M took the 4×400 relay as Madsen, Susan Bansbach, Samantha Pynn and Fiona Mejico posted 4:11.18 to beat out West Genesee (4:14.37) by more than two seconds. That same quartet needed 1:52.81 to finish third in the 4×200 relay.
Barns took third place in the long jump, going 16’5 ½” as Isabel Zuber was fourth with 16’1”. Sarah Vaccaro had a fifth-place shot put toss of 28’6 ½”.
Meanwhile, in the boys SCAC Metro meet, F-M earned 56 points, taking fourth place, with B’ville (163 points) pulling away to earn the team championship.
In the 3,200-meter run, the Hornets’ Geoff Howles won in 9:46.76, beating out teammate Garrett Brennan, who was second in 9:53.35. In the mile, Brennan went to the top in 4:36.12, holding off Howles, who was second in 4:38.86.
Armando Adrian, John Nethercott, Casey Coleman and Kobe Oley were second (3:43.57) to B’ville (3:38.76) in the 4×400. Nolan Chiles, Jack Duncanson, John Meskos and Matt Tripp were third in the 4×800 in 8:40.44, with the Hornets fifth (1:38.94) in the 4×200.
Nethercott, on his own, was fifth in the 300 in 38.68 seconds. Nolan Chiles was sixth in the 1,000, with Ryan Serp sixth in the 55 hurdles and Jacob Roberts eighth in the 55-meter dash.
Duncanson was ninth in the 600, with Serp eighth and Aaron Costanza ninth in the long jump as Serp took seventh place in the triple jump and Costanza again earned ninth place.
Christian Brothers Academy had competed the day before in the Onondaga High School League Division I championships, where it scored 32 points on the girls side to finish sixth in a 10-team field.
Olivia Morganti was victorious in the 600, her time of 1:43 flat nearly four seconds ahead of the field as Marni Rathbun was sixth in 1:53.11. In the 300, Morganti finished third in 46.26 seconds, while Cory Knox got eighth place.
Bri Pucci finished second in the 1,000 in 3:20.69, with Knox fifth in 3:23.22 as Pucci took fifth (5:35.21) in the 1,500 and Annie Toole was seventh. Julia Sullivan was fifth in the 55 sprint in 8.16 seconds and helped CBA take sixth place in the 4×200.
For the CBA boys, Zach Medicis had a fourth-place finish in the 1,000 in 2:49.16, with Adam Kantor ninth. Medicis also was eighth in the mile as Lewes Kunda was fifth in the 300 in 39.77 seconds and Francis Cannizzo eighth. Riley Nash was ninth in the 3,200.
