After some well-deserved rest, it was time for both of Baldwinsville’s cross country teams to hit the trails again for two important events in a span of less than a week.
Before hosting Wednesday’s Salt City Athletic Conference championships, the Bees would first venture to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx for last Saturday’s Manhattan Invitational.
Competing in the Varsity A race, the B’ville boys finished eighth in a 29-team field with 240 points, largely on the strength of a pair of top-10 efforts from Jack Michaels and Colin Delaney.
Michaels needed 12 minutes, 57 seconds on the 2.5-mile Van Cortlandt course to finish third behind Riverdale’s Jacob Ireland (12:52.7) and Skaneateles’ Caleb Bender (12:54.4), while Delaney got eighth place in 13:27.9.
Solomon Holden-Betts finished 52nd in 14:20.1, leading the next pack of Bees that included James Cary, who was 78th in 14:33.5. Nate Hludzenski, in 14:48.1, was just ahead of Justin Chimento (14:52.8) and Erik Smith (14:57.8).
The B’ville girls would take part in the Varsity B race, where it made its way to sixth place out of 21 sides, picking up 110 points as Cicero-North Syracuse (32 points) won here.
Individually, Vivian Holden-Betts got to 29th place in 16:47.4 and McKenzie Schmidt finished 30th in 16:57.9. Sarah Fawwaz was 51st in 17:39.6, with Margaret Solomon 54th in 17:42.6 as Anna Conklin was 61st in 17:50.5, ahead of Sage Springsteen in 73rd place (18:08.6) as Annabelle Horan posted 18:54 flat.
In B’ville alumni news, 2017 graduate Elizabeth Fawwaz was named Athlete of the Week at Clarkson University, winning the 6,000-meter race at the Kangaroo Invitational in Canton with a time of 24:22.7 to beat 33 other runners.
