Gearing up for the post-season, Jordan-Elbridge boys track and field standout Marion Quigley won two events and was runner-up in another against large fields during last Friday’s John Arcaro Classic at Baldwinsville.
Quigley needed 15.64 seconds to beat out Carthage’s Tom Albright (15.97) and 25 others in the 110-meter high hurdles, while in the long jump Quigley’s top leap of 20 feet 9 inches was six inches ahead of Indian River’s Troy Stephen (20’3”).
Elsewhere, Quigley cleared 5’10” in the high jump to get second place behind Fairport’s Mason Yusko, who won with 6 feet, and helped the Eagles’ 4×400 relay team take third place in three minutes, 40.72 seconds.
Overall, the J-E boys finished fifth with 45 points as host Baldwinsville and Fairport shared first place with 70 points. Westhill had 23 points for ninth place, while Skaneateles got eight points.
The Eagles’ Logan Kinney made it to fourth place in the 200-meter dash in 24 seconds flat, just ahead of Westhill’s Tom Howard (24.03) in fifth place, and Kinney was eighth in the 400-meter dash in 54.61 seconds.
Westhill’s 4×800 relay team of Brendan Rewakowski, Brian Kenny, Will Thornton and Dan Washburn were second in 8:38.03, just behind Cicero-North Syracuse (8:36.64) as J-E got third place here, too, in 8:57.31, to go with a sixth in the 4×100 relay.
Evan Ballard had a second-place shot put toss of 42’8 ½” for the Warriors, adding a fourth in the discus with 116’3” as teammate Charlie Doebert was sixth with 102’4”.
Skaneateles had Nicola Kunz take fourth place in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:01.72, while Matt Persampieri was fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:43.78 and Caleb Bender got fifth place in the mile in 4:36.92.
In the girls portion of the Arcaro Classic, Westhill tied South Jefferson for fourth place, earning 45 points just like the J-E boys did, with Skaneateles getting 10 points.
Lennah Abraham earned Westhill’s lone title in the discus, her throw of 92’8” in tough conditions the best of the field by more than four feet over Baldwinsville’s Jenna Wallace (88’2”), while Brigid Heinrich finished seventh.
Angie Mesa-Espinosa went 12.93 seconds in the 100-meter dash, second to Baldwinsville’s Karen Ekure (12.70), and in the 200 Mesa-Espinosa claimed third place in 26.63 seconds.
Ashley Heffernan, in 16.42 seconds, was second to Corcoran’s Kiari Hameed (16.11) in the 100 hurdles, while in the 400 sprint Ashley Bolesh got second place in 1:00.03 behind Fayetteville-Manlius’ Susan Bansbach (58.93). Heffernan had a fourth-place long jump of 15’5 and Bolesh was sixth (31’11 ¼”) in the triple jump.
Skaneateles saw Sharla Dart finish third in the shot put with a throw of 29’11 ½”, while Graeson Landsberg got fourth place in the 400 hurdles in 1:12.94.
The J-E girls’ lone six points were earned in the 4×800, where Vassianna Klock, Abby Burns, Hannah Fichter and Coral Uhle took third place in 10:27.25.
Solvay and Marcellus had its track teams venture to Friday’s Oneida Coed Invitational, where the Bearcats and Mustangs had a series of top performances.
The girls Mustangs earned 32 points to finish eighth out of 20 teams, and 10 of the points came from Julianna Szczech’s victory in the pole vault as she cleared 9’6”, which no one else could match.
Another Marcellus victory was earned by Sophia Shaw, who in the high jump topped 4’10”, while none of her challengers topped 4’6”. Corrine Bandera was second in the400 hurdles in 1:14 flat, with Violet Grieb fifth in 1:15.90.
Solvay had Sabrina Garnett finish fifth in the shot put with a toss of 29’2”, with Kyra Crossett sixth in the 100 hurdles and Erica Bagozzi sixth in the pole vault.
In the boys Oneida meet, Marcellus had Jonah Kasnowski finish fifth in the pentathlon with 2,252 points, though it included the fastest 1,500-meter time of 4:57.72. Dan Balman was fifth in the discus with 110’5”, with Mason Grieb fifth (1:04.13) in the 400 hurdles.
Meanwhile, Solvay nearly won the boys 4×100, having Brendon Carolina, Elijah Wright, Allen Cawthon and Justin Scott go 45.89 seconds, beating everyone except the 44.28 from Whitesboro. Scott finished eighth in the 100 sprint in 11.64 seconds.
