Merely 48 hours after they had a league championship showdown, the track and field teams from Baldwinsville and Cicero-North Syracuse reunited at the Bees’ annual John Arcaro Classic.
Not content to just host, B’ville’s boys team would earn 70 points to tie Fairport for top honors, just ahead of C-NS’s total of 63 points as, on the girls side, the Northstars had 69 points, second to Fayetteville-Manlius (87) as the Bees were third with 59 points.
Sam Kellner won for the B’ville boys in the 400-meter hurdles, tearing to a time of 58.68 seconds to edge Fairport’s Mason Kozody (58.80), while Michael Lawrence was victorious in the 400-meter dash in 52.69 seconds.
The Bees also won the 4×400 relay as Lawrence, paired with Nick Kruger, Connor McManus and Connor Waldron, went 3:34.77 to hold off Fairport (3:35.33) at the line, with C-NS fourth in 3:42.05. B’ville took third place in the 4×100 relay in 46.97 seconds.
Mike Letizia, in 11.53 seconds, was second to Spencerport’s Khalize Beaman (11.44) in the 100-meter dash, while Steven Miller had a discus throw of 121 feet which put him in second place.
Kruger had a fourth-place triple jump of 40 feet 2 inches. John Arvantides finished fifth in the 3,200-meter run, with Jon Formoza sixth in the 800-meter run. Aidan Priest was fifth in the pole vault, clearing 11 feet.
C-NS had Nathan Poirier win the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:02.21, more than 16 seconds ahead of the field. Andrew Culver was victorious in the shot put, his throw of 46’3” more than three feet farther than any other competitor.
Also, the Northstars’ 4×800 relay team of R.J. Davis, Lucas Sharron, Tyler Murray and Christian Carlin prevailed in 8:36.64 to edge Westhill (8:38.03), with B’ville in fifth place. Davis was sixth and Matt LeClair seventh in the mile.
Sam Nessel, in 53.60 seconds, was second to Lawrence in the 400 sprint, with Adron Pafford fourth in 54.08 seconds. Isaiah Wright was third in the 110 hurdles in 16.41 seconds and third in the long jump, going 20’ ½”,, with Carlton Garnes sixth in the 110 hurdles. Evan Breitbeck was fifth in the 800.
B’ville’s girls team had Karen Ekure win two sprints, going 12.70 seconds to top the field in the 100 and then, in the 200-meter dash, going 26.08 seconds to beat out Spencerport’s Emily Sugar (26.32).
The Bees’ Justus Holden-Betts went 7:08.19 in the 2,000-meter steeplechase to grab second place, with Vivian Holden-Betts fifth in 7:52.45. Jenna Wallace threw the discus 88’2” to finish second as Ella Smith cleared 8’6” in the pole vault to take fourth place.
C-NS had Liliana Klemanski win the girls high jump, clearing 5’3” to edge Corcoran’s Kiari Hameed (5’2”) as Lilly Capria was fourth with 5 feet. Klemanski also finished fifth in the 100 hurdles, just ahead of B’ville’s Allyson Surowick in sixth place.
Brooke Blaisdell’s long jump of 16’4” left her second to Hameed’s 17 feet. Also, the Northstars’ 4×800 relay side get second place in 10:10.25, adding a third in the 4×400 in 4:13.52.
Savannah Kuhr was second in the 400 hurdles in 1:10.06. Sarah Davis got third place in the 800 in 2:26.81, with Abbee Norris fifth, while Marissa Navarra was fourth in the 3,000-meter run. Capria (32’1 ½”) edged Julianna Hutt (32’ ¾”) for fourth place in the triple jump.
Liverpool had some athletes at the Arcaro meet, including Jenna Schulz, who in the 1,500-meter run tore to a time of 4:38.28, but still trailed her F-M rival, Claire Walters, who won in 4:34.96. C-NS’s Allison Newton was sixth.
The Warriors did win the 4×100, though, having the quartet of Havne Hicks, Anne Gullo, Riley Norris and Marissa Baskin tear to a time of 50.82 seconds, more than a full second ahead of the field as B’ville was third in 52.50. Madyson Oliveri finished fifth in the shot put.
But many other Liverpool stars made the trip last weekend to the Loucks Games at White Plains High School, where they competed against top talent from across the state.
On the girls side, Madison Neuner was superb in the 2,000-meter steeplechase, her time of 6:54.84 only topped by Tully’s Brooke Rauber, who won in 6:48.43.
Nathan Reeves made it to third place in the boys mile, tearing to a time of 4:18.19, not far from the winning 4:15.38 from Bronxville’s Matt Rizzo, while Spencer Ruediger broke two minutes in the 800, finishing in 1:59.34 ahead of Cameron O’Connell (2:01.81).
Gabby McCarthy was 14th in the steeplechase in 7:48.35 and Emily Neuner posted 7:58.40. Windsor Ardner ran the 800 in 2:15.87 to take 15th place, while Imahni Sinclair was 14th in the shot put and discus.
Nick Brancato ran to seventh place in the boys 3,000 steeplechase in 10:01.99, with Jake McGowan 12th in 10:10.27. Jacob Barnes had a ninth-place discus throw of 136’11” ahead of Antwan Kelly’s 128’8”.
