On consecutive days, track and field teams from Fayetteville-Manlius and Christian Brothers Academy would battle for league championship honors.
F-M did so Thursday in the Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division meet at Liverpool High School Stadium, where the girls Hornets finished second with 144.5 points to Liverpool’s winning total of 185 points.
Claire Walters pulled off a rare double, going nine minutes, 58.17 seconds to claim the 3,000-meter run and then winning the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7:05.19, with Grace Kaercher third in the 3,000 (10:33.11) and Ani Sydorwych third in the steeplechase in 7:43.55.
Phoebe White claimed the 800-meter run in 2:18.90 and went 4:38.32 in the 1,500-meter run to beat out Walters (4:46.18), while Wren Usaitynski earned the win in the pole vault, clearing 8 feet.
Susan Bansbach again dominated the 400-meter dash, winning in 58.08 seconds, the only time under a minute, adding a third-place finish in the 200-meter dash in 26.84 seconds.
In the 400 hurdles, Fiona Mejico, in 1:06.75, was a close second to Baldwinsville’s Justus Holden-Betts (1:06.40), but Mejico joined Bansbach, White and Bella Milliti to win the 4×400 relay in 4:05.04, more than six seconds ahead of the field.
Katie Berge’ made it to second place in the pentathlon with 2,211 points behind Liverpool’s Lauren Fradette (2,479). Grace Kaercher, Maddy Duggleby, Amelia Amick and Libbie Kirkpatrick were second in the 4×800 relay in 9:52.54, with Chloe Bullough fourth in the 800.
Samantha Pynn got third place in the triple jump with 33’2” and was fourth place in the long jump, going 15’11 ½”.Harper Stoppacher was fourth in the high jump, clearing 4’8”, and took fifth (32’2 ½”) in the triple jump.
The F-M boys finished fourth in the SCAC Metro meet with 74 points as Ryan Serp was victorious in the pentathlon, his total of 2.843 points in five events more than 500 points clear of the field.
Nolan Chiles added his own victory in the mile, going 4:23.77 to beat out West Genesee’s Matt Bartolotta (4:27.66) as Sam Otis beat the field in the 3,200-meter run in 9:20.02, with Yakob Kelley (9:53.85) fourth.
Sawyer Dereszynski had a second-place discus throw of 127’8”. Owen Snyder went 1:01.25 in the 400 hurdles to claim third place, with Corey Gallagher third in the 200 in 23.90 seconds. Matt Tripp finished third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:04.90.
Dan Sokolovic threw the shot put 43’3” to finish fourth. Jason Cavanagh was fifth in the 110 hurdles in 18.38 seconds, with John Meskos fifth in the 800 in 2:03.60. F-M was fourth in the 4×400 and sixth in the 4×400.
At Marcellus a day earlier, CBA had its turn in the Onondaga High School League Liberty Division Small School meet, finishing fifth in the girls portion with 57 points and sixth in the boys portion with 41 points as Cazenovia easily claimed both team titles.
CBA’s girls team had Cory Knox victorious in the pentathlon, her total of 2,330 points enough to hold off Cazenovia’s Lili Gavitt (2,259) for the top spot as she rallied to win the event with an 800 of 2:39.95.
Skye Ryan swept the throwing events as she was victorious in the discus, her throw of 94’10” more than six feet ahead of any other competitor, and had a winning shot put throw of 32’4” as ElizaHanson finished seventh.
Bri Pucci earned another title in the 1,500, finishing in 5:12.45 to beat the field by nearly three seconds. Beatrice Gurgol rose to second place in the triple jump, going 32’10 ¼”, and was second in the long jump with 16’ ½”.
Moving to the boys OHSL Liberty meet, CBA’s 4×800 relay team of Joel Gaffney, Dan Melvin, Caleb Krueger and Zach Medicis went 8:06.29 to finish nearly a full minute ahead of runner-up Jordan-Elbridge (9:03.86).
Gaffney didn’t stop there, going on to win the 400 sprint in 52.49 seconds as Krueger was third in 53.50 seconds. Riley Nash made it to second place in the 3,200 in 10:20.68.
Noah Slifka was fifth in the 110 high hurdles in 17.11 seconds, with Aiden Schimpff was sixth in the 200 in 24.71 seconds. Sam Lustig got sixth place in the 800 in 2:15.7. Marcus Howard earned a fifth-place triple jump of 36’10”. Phillip Tam had a sixth-place discus throw of 95’2” and was eighth in the shot put.
