Even though tougher meets lay ahead for the Cazenovia boys track and field team, it did not forget the task in front of them when it traveled to Altmar-Parish-Williamstown last Wednesday afternoon.
Nearly earning every possible point, the Lakers routed the Rebels 136-5 to improve to 3-0 on the season as five different individuals won two events apiece.
Ray Satchwell was first in the high jump, going 18 feet 4 inches before a top triple jump of 39’8”. Angelo Annotto’s domination of throwing events continued as he tossed the discus 110’10” and the shot put 37’4”.
On the track, Justin Gagnon prevailed twice, going 1:08.6 in the 400-meter hurdles after he won the 110 hurdles in 16.1 seconds. Sam Deleon chimed in by winning the 100-meter dash in 11.4 seconds and the 200-meter dash in 24.3 seconds.
Jared Smith ran the mile in 5:02.8 to beat out Noah DeRochie’s 5:09.8 and claimed the 800-meter run in 2:16.2, but it was DeRochie victorious in the 3,200-meter run in 11:41.1.
Cormac Race, in 56.6 seconds, edged Jack Aronson (56.8) in the 400-meter dash, and that pair joined James Pavelchak and Andrew Kent to win the 4×400 relay in 4:07.9.
Earlier, in the 4×800 relay, Kent, Smith, Hunter McCullough and Michael Senehi prevailed in 9:46.2, while in the 4×100 Gagnon, Pavelchak, Sam DeLeon and Justin Maxwell won in 46.9 seconds. Senehi was second in the 3,200 to DeRochie.
Austin Sanders and Kyler Hathaway tied for the top spot in the high jump, each clearing 5’8”, with Slater DeLeon, second in the long jump (17’10”) to Satchwell, winning the pole vault, topping 9 feet as Elijah Clement topped 8’6”.
Hathaway was second in the discus, throwing it 90 feet, with Christian Edelstein second in the shot put with 34’6”. Jack McNerney was second in the 200 in 23.8 seconds and Justin Wilson took second in the 400 hurdles in 1:11.8.
Great as all this was, what Cazenovia did two days later at the Chittenango Invitational proved more impressive as the Lakers worked through the rain to finish fourth with 57 points, while the host Bears got sixth place with 43 points.
Gagnon was victorious in the 110 hurdles, his time of 15.51 seconds nearly half a second ahead of Chittenango’s Devin Myers (15.97) in second place, with Maxwell sixth in 17.31 seconds. But it was Myers ending up victorious in the 400 hurdles, going 1:03.28 to beat out Gagnon, who was second in 1:04.53.
Satchwell nearly won the triple jump, his 40’6 ¼” only trailing Liverpool’s Paul Dewan (40’7”) by less than an inch. Satchwell also had a third-place long jump of 19’10 ¼”.
The Bears also had Nate Lampman, Jacobi Dwyer, Dave Gratien and Kenny Mathews get second in the 4×400 in 3:53.92, with Dylan Price, Caleb Prenoveau, Ersilio Cerminaro and Tristam LaFountaine second in the 4×800 in 9:01.49.
Gagnon, Maxwell, Pavelchak and Slater DeLeon were second (45.28) to Cicero-North Syracuse (45.10) in the 4×100. Smith ran in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and took third place in 10:39.32, while DeRochie was seventh.
Annotto concentrated on the discus and recorded a third-place throw of 131’2”, with Satchwell third in the long jump by going 19’10 ¼”. Hathaway took his turn in the five-event pentathlon and finished fifth with 1,665 points. Aronson was fifth in the 400 sprint in 54.16 seconds.
Also for Chittenango, Prenoveau finished fourth (2:04.86) and Price fifth (2:05.36) in the 800, while Lampman, in 4:51.47, beat out Gratien (4:53.04) for fifth place in the full-field mile.
In the girls Chittenango Invitational, the Bears had 26 points to tie for eighth place. Kiara Waite was second in the 800 in 2:34.21, but she also helped McKayla Capeling, Piper Beckwith and Emily Moon win the 4×800 in 11:29.78. as Chelsea Lamphere was third in the 3,000-meter run in 11:42.99.
