While Christian Brothers Academy has a long and rich tradition of claiming titles, it had never won boys and girls league titles in outdoor track and field – until 2019, anyway.
The Brothers secured those league championships last Wednesday afternoon during an impressive sweep over Phoenix, with the CBA boys and girls both defeating the Firebirds by similar 101-39 margins.
In the boys meet, CBA’s depth was on display in the sprints as Jaden Buckingham, in 11.6 seconds, edged David Kenney (11.8) in the 100-meter dash, with Aiden Schimpff (24.5 second) and Sean Smith (25.3) 1-2 in the 200-meter dash. Joel Gaffney won the 400-meter dash in 54.6 seconds.
Riley Nash, in 11:49.3, held off Zach Medicis (11:49.7) in the 3,200-meter run, with Nash second in the mile to Adam Kantor, who won in 5:06 flat as Dan Melvin, in 2:20.6, beat out Mike McMahon (2:20.9) in the 800-meter run.
Medicis did win the 400 hurdles in 1:09 flat, while Noah Slifka was first in the 110 hurdles in 17.6 seconds. To cap it off, the Brothers got a clean sweep of the 4×100 (48.2 seconds), 4×400 (3:52.6) and 4×800 (9:43.0) relays.
CBA also won three of the six field events. Jared Mitchell went 16 feet 5 inches in the long jump, just ahead of Marcus Howard (16’1”), who did take the triple jump with 36’2” as Phillip Tam threw the discus 92’6”.
Meanwhile, Fayetteville-Manlius was at home, having little trouble with Corcoran and Nottingham in a three-team SCAC Metro division meet.
The girls Hornets prevailed 105-34 over the Bulldogs and 100-38 over the Cougars as Susan Bansbach ducked under the one-minute mark in the 400 sprint in 59.3 seconds, also winning the 200 in 26.8 seconds.
Phoebe White went 2:23.3 in the 800 to beat Grace Kaercher (2:30.1) as Hannah Kaercher ran the 1,500 in 5:06 flat ahead of Adrianna Sydorowych (5:07.6) and Chloe Bullough (5:07.8), with Emily Cook taking the 3,000-meter run in 10:59.3.
Samantha Pynn claimed first in the long jump by going 14’7” and the triple jump with 35’5 ¼”. Harper Stoppacher cleared 5 feet in the high jump, with Wren Usiatynski topping 7’6” in the pole vault.
Fiona Mejico, who won the 400 hurdles in 1:08.6, paired with Phoebe White, Claire Walters and Brennan Jolly to win the 4×400 relay in 4:14 flat after the Hornets ran the 4×800 in 10:28.8 and also won the 4×100 relay in 54.1 seconds.
The boys meet had F-M defeating Nottingham 102-33 and Corcoran 99-40, with Ryan Serp going 1:02 flat to win the 400 hurdles and also prevailing in the 110 high hurdles in 16.2 seconds. Corey Gallagher won the 100 sprint in 11.7 seconds.
Nolan Chiles was first in the mile in 4:37.7 to beat out Sam Otis (4:37.9) and Peyton Geehrer (4:38.3), with Otis first in the 3,200-meter run in 9:55 flat and Evan Krukin going to first place in the 800 in 2:12.0.
F-M also swept the 4×100 (46.7 seconds) and 4×400 (9:45.0) relays as Sawyer Dereszynski threw the discus 122’3” and Dan Sokolovic won the shot put with a throw of 42’11”. Alex Williamson went 37’2” in the triple jump and Francesco Tibaldo topped 8’6” in the pole vault.
