With a regular-season league championship in sight, the Cazenovia boys track and field team spent the first Saturday in May earning another important title.

The Lakers beat 11 other teams to take top honors in the Don Howard Invitational at Cooperstown High School, earning 137 points to beat out Tri-Valley (117 points) for first place.

Going 1-2 in the triple jump, the Lakers had Slater DeLeon prevail, going 40 feet 8 inches, with Ray Satchwell second by going 40 1 1/2″. In the long jump, DeLeon finished second with a leap of 20’5 1/4″, again ahead of Satchwell, whose 19’5 1/2″ put him in third place.

Justin Gagnon won the 110 high hurdles, his time of 15.52 seconds edging out Tri Valley’s Thomas VanSanders (15.55) as Satchwell finished sixth in 16.82 seconds .Also Gagnon made it to fourth place in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:00.40, with Connor Wilson (1:05.25) sixth.

DeLeon also got second place in the 200-meter dash in 23.54 seconds as the Lakers dominated the 4×100 relay, its time of 45.89 seconds more than two seconds clear of Little Falls (48.19), with Cazenovia also sixth in the 4×800 relay in 9:30.26.

In the 3,200-meter run, the Lakers’ Noah DeRochie finished second in 10;36.66, with Jared Smith third in 10:39.28 as Smith also finished third in the mile in 4:46.27, ahead of DeRochie (4:53.21) in fifth place. Smith was sixth in the 800-meter run in 2:19.10.

Dalton Seviver cleared 6 feet in the high jump to finish second, with Kyler Hathaway third by topping 5’8″. Angelo Annotto threw the shot put 41’8″ and the discus 122’3″, taking third place in each event. Sam DeLeon was third in the 100-meter dash in 11.84 seconds, with Charles Kubiniec sixth in 12.91 seconds.