Already, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls track and field team finds itself atop the Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division standings.
The Hornets, who won at Cicero-North Syracuse on April 11, had its home opener against Henninger a week later and had little trouble defeating the Black Knights 106.5-25.5.
Palmer Madsen and Phoebe White each won two individual races. Madsen went 1:00.8 in the 400-meter dash and claimed the 200-meter dash in 27.8 seconds, while White, victorious in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:11 flat, had a time of 11:20 in the 3,000-meter run.
Elsewhere on the oval, Sophia Ryan tore to a time of 4:38.2 in the 1,500-meter run, best in Section III this season. Gwen Shepardson took the 100-meter hurdles in 16.8 seconds, with Cady Barns going 13.7 seconds in the 100-meter dash and Rebecca Walters victorious in the 800-meter run in 2:32.0.
Isabel Zuber won twice in field events, going 15 feet 11 ¾ inches in the triple jump and 31’8” in the triple jump as Samantha Pynn cleared 4’6” in the high jump.
To start a relay sweep, Alex Villalba, Susan Bansbach, Rebecca Walters and Lindsay Kilpatrick went 10:19.9 in the 4×800 relay. Pynn, Barns, Bansbach and Fiona Mejico took the 4×100 in 52.4 seconds and also paired in the 4×400 to win in 4:21.3.
F-M’s boys team would defeat Henninger 86-46, with Romello Mitchell standing out as he cleared 5’10” in the high jump and went 39’1” for first place in the triple jump as Sawyer Dereszynski threw the discus 106’5”.
On the track, Sam Otis ran 3,200 meters in 10:09, with Geoff Howles claiming the mile in 4:35.7. Garrett Brennan needed 2:06.9 to prevail in the 800 as Ryan Serp was first in the 400 hurdles in 1:04.6.
Brennan joined Armando Adrian, Kobe Oley and Jon Nethercott to win the 4×400 relay in 3:50.3. Oley, Alex Williamson, Ben Hutz and Ethan Bird won the 4×100 in 49.7 seconds as Otis, Matt Tripp, Nolan Chiles and Yakob Kelley ran the 4×800 in 8:56.7.
Manlius-Pebble Hill saw its girls track team beat Fabius-Pompey 68-52, though the boys Trojans lost 101-23 to the Falcons while also dropping a 64-43 decision to Cincinnatus.
Other meets got postponed, including Jamesville-DeWitt taking on Fulton, East Syracuse Minoa facing Oswego and Christian Brothers Academy against Chittenango.
But both of J-D’s teams went to Johnson City’s Square Deal Invitational, where the boys Red Rams finished second (64 points) to Union-Endicott (75 points) in the standings.
Mike Potamianos, Haberle Conlon, Fidel Martinez and David Fikhman were victorious in the 4×400 in 3:36.04, with Fikhman (50.15 seconds) pulling away from Potamianos (51.60) as part of a 1-2 finish in the 400 sprint..
That followed a 4×100 where Fikhman, Potamianos, Conlon and Marcus Johnson roared to first place in 44.72 seconds. Johnson also was second in the triple jump, going 40’11 ¼”, while Nick Mannion was third in the miles in 4:42.55.
In the girls event at Johnson City, J-D’s Alexandria Payne won twice, dominating the 100 hurdles in 15.02 seconds and clearing 5’4” to prevail in the high jump.
Payne also took second in the 200 sprint in 25.87 seconds, inches behind Vestal’s Tia Jones (25.85) as the Red Rams took fourth in the 4×100 relay in 55.26 seconds and Eva Wisniewski was fifth in the pole vault, with Janna VanVranken sixth in the 400 sprint.
ESM competed in Saturday’s Tully Girls Invitational, where Mackenzie Bourdon was victorious for the Spartans in the 100 hurdles with a time of 17.45 seconds, the only time under 18 seconds.
Mia Montgomery had a winning triple jump of 34’7” as teammate Julia Perrotta took fifth place. Jennah Ferrari cleared 4’8” in the high jump, second to Cortland’s Malana Booker, who won with 4’10” as Mia DePietro was sixth. Ferrari was fifth in the pole vault, topping 7 feet.
Bourdon, Montgomery, Lashae Benjamin and Sophie Hartz were second (54.53 seconds) to Tully (53.70) in the 4×100. Benjamin, Hartz, Kat Boland and Melanie DeFeo got second place in the sprint medley relay in 4:52.08 as Hartz was third in the long jump, going 15’9”, and Benjamin was fourth in the 100 sprint in 13.90 seconds. Margaret Bandarenko finished sixth in the shot put.
