Before they all faced each other this week, track and field teams from Cicero-North Syracuse, Liverpool and Baldwinsville all had various amounts of success at large-scale meets last Friday night.
It was the C-NS girls prevailing at the East Syracuse Minoa Invitational, amassing 125 points to pull away from runner-up Liverpool’s 76 points. B’ville made its way to fourth place with 45 points.
One big C-NS-Liverpool battle came in the long jump, where the Warriors’ Marissa Baskin set a meet record with a leap of 17 feet 10 ½ inches as the Northstars’ Brooke Blaisdell was second with 17’4” and Julianna Hutt was fifth. Baskin also won the 100-meter dash in 12.81 seconds.
But it was Blaisdell winning the triple jump, her best attempt of 38’11 ¼” more than five feet ahead of the field, which included a third-place 33 6’1/2” from Hutt. And Blaisdell won the 100 hurdles in 16.10 seconds, with Liverpool’s Kali Hayes third in 16.44 seconds.
The Northstars were also victorious in the 4×400 relay, where Hannah Boyle, Jamie Wagner, Sarah Davis and Allison Newton went 4:14.18 to beat runner-up South Jefferson (4:17.20) as Liverpool finished sixth.
Boyle, just an eighth-grader, went 1:01.06 to edge South Jefferson’s Kaylee Haynes (1:01.18) and win the 400-meter dash, with Wagner getting fifth place.
Newton also pulled away to win the 3,000-meter run in 10:33.52, with Maria Marullo fifth, and C-NS was second in the 4×800 relay in 10:14.48, while the Warriors were fourth. Savannah Kuhr, who was fourth in the 100 hurdles, got second place in the 400 hurdles in 1:10.60.
Liliana Klemanski was second in the five-event pentathlon, clearing 5’3” in the high jump on her way to 2,075 points, just behind the 2,139 from Cazenovia’s Lili Gavitt. Lilly Capria was second in the high jump, clearing 5 feet.
Baskin joined Anne Gullo, Amina Sinclair and Riley Norris to post a season-best 50.78 seconds and win the 4×100 relay, with C-NS fourth in 53.46 seconds. Gullo got fourth place in the 200-meter dash.
Windsor Ardner, in 2:20.06, beat the field in the 800-meter run, with Davis third for C-NS in 2:23.55. Imahni Sinclair was victorious in the shot put thanks to a throw of 34’11 ½”, nearly a foot ahead of the field.
Baldwinsville’s Karen Ekure, third in the 100, won the 200-meter dash in 26.37 seconds. Vivian Holden-Betts won the 2,000-meter steeplechase, her time of 8:03.1 well clear of C-NS’s Emily Dembowski, who was second in 8:10 flat.
Justus Holden-Betts got second place in the 1,500-meter run in 5:06.13, with the Northstars’ Marissa Navarra sixth. Anna Conklin managed sixth place in the 800.. B’ville also had Jenna Wallace finish second in the discus, throwing it 94’6”.
While all this was going on, B’ville, Liverpool and C-NS had its boys teams at the New Hartford Invitational, where the Bees finished second (59 points) to Utica Proctor (80), with the Northstars third and the Warriors sixth.
B’ville had Michael Lawrence, Jon Formoza, Jack Michaels and Sam Kellner win the 4×800 in 8:10.72 to beat out Liverpool (8:15.78) in second place as C-NS got fifth place.
Mike Letizia went through two rounds of the 100 to reach the finals and then was second in that race in 11.44 seconds. Kellner finished second in the 400 hurdles in 59.92 seconds, while Lawrence went 24.43 seconds in the 200 to take fourth place
Lawrence, Formoza, Nick Kruger and Connor Waldron were victorious in the 4×400 in 3:32.86, edging out Jamesville-DeWitt (3:33.24) by less than a second. Michaels gained fourth place in the 3,200-meter run in 10:02.12, with Waldron fourth in the 400.
Liverpool did go 1-2 in the discus, Jacob Barnes throwing it 137’1”to edge Antwan Kelly (136’7”) as B’ville’s Steven Miller was fourth. C-NS had Andrew Culver unleash a winning shot put toss of 47’8 ¾”as Barnes finished third.
In the relays, the Northstars were second in the distance medley in 11:23.86 behind Chittenango (11:12.10), with Liverpool fourth and B’ville fifth, and C-NS got second place in the sprint medley in 3:59.01, with the Bees in fourth place.
Also for C-NS, Christian Carlin got second place in the 800 in 2:04.06 and was fourth in the 400 sprint, while Nathan Poirier finished fourth in the mile in 4:32.23.
Some Liverpool runners went to the Runnin’ Cadet Showdown Saturday at Hilton, near Rochester, where Jenna Schulz won the featured 3,000-meter girls race in 9:55.80, with Madison Neuner second in 10:06.75 and Sydney Carlson fifth.
In the featured boys 3,200-meter race at Hilton, Liverpool’s Nathan Reeves went 9:18.06, second only to Pittsford Mendon’s Sam Lawler (9:16.44), with Carter Rodriguez 11th, Jake McGowan 17th and Nick Brancato 19th.
