Jamesville-DeWitt and East Syracuse Minoa were supposed to go up against each other last Thursday night for the Salt City Athletic Conference Empire division championships at SRC Arena, with Fayetteville-Manlius taking part in the SCAC Metro meet.
None of that happened, though, as the bitter cold forced a postponement until this Sunday, three days after F-M, J-D and ESM all vie for Section III honors, the Hornets in Class AA, the Red Rams and Spartans in Class A.
J-D got a jump on all this by making up the snowed-out Jan. 19 afternoon session of the Bob Grieve Memorial Invitational five days earlier, winning the girls division with 159 points to Baldwinsville’s 156 while finishing second to the Bees in the boys division.
Monica Hernandez-Olivera beat the field in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.53 seconds, with Sofie Brutsaert fifth. Later, in the 4×200 relay, Hernandez-Olivera, Isabella Ferlenda, Laetticia Bazile and Denise Yaeger prevailed in 1:54.81, with Hernandez-Olivera third in the shot put.
On her own, Yaeger won the long jump, going 16 feet 4 inches as Julia Antoine (15’1 ½”) was third. Bazile again dazzled in the high jump, clearing 5’3” to win, while Antoine took fifth place.
Madeline Carter, Kyra Schultz, Amanda Semmel and Janna VanVraken won the 4×400 relay in 4:37.47, with VanVraken later third in the 300-meter dash in 46.18 seconds and Eva Wisniewski fourth. Wisniewski added a fourth in the pole vault as Lucy Heflin (8’6”) finished third.
Sophia Vinciguerra got second place in the 1,000-meter run in 3:16.20, with Kathryn Sizing fifth. Anna Sofia Hege finished second in the 3,000-meter run as Yaeger was fourth in the 55-meter dash. Madeline Foss got third place and Jillian Kordas fifth in the 1,500-meter run.
The J-D boys won the 4×800 as Dylan Sweeney, Alan Gao, Ben Catania and Brian Hulbert went 9:23.41 to pull away from the field.
Sweeney went 2:50.73 to finish second in the 1,000, with Michael Sizing third and Gao fourth. Nate Rindfuss was third in the 3,200-meter run in 11:25.24, with Anthony Cawley fifth.
Joe Staples, in 6.87 seconds, was a close second to B’ville’s Garrett Selover (6.85) in the 55 sprint with Catania second (1:34.85) and Nico Stella third (1:37.16) in the 600. Staples took third place in the 300 in 39.29 seconds and was third (17’8 ½”) in the long jump.
Nick Dekaney landed in second place in the 55 hurdles in 8.46 seconds and had a second-place triple jump of 37’9 ¼” as Aniket Maini was third. Seth Zurbregg finished fourth in the shot put, heaving it 38’5 ¼”, with Jason Pritts fourth (34’11”) in the weight throw.
