Each of the area’s four top indoor track and field teams found themselves competing in the same morning session of Saturday’s George Constantino Memorial Invitational as SRC Arena.
This proved beneficial for two of the sides in particular as Fayetteville-Manlius dominated the girls meet with 166 points and Jamesville-DeWitt, second on the girls side, won the boys team honors with 99 points.
In a 1-2-3 sweep of the girls 600-meter run, F-M had Phoebe White prevail in one minute, 37.70 seconds, with Maddy Duggleby second in 1:45.90 and Isabelle Adrian (1:49.07) third.
White went on to win the 1,000-meter run in 3:04.01, far clear of Amelia Amack (3:18.23) in second place and, as part of a Hornets relay sweep, helped Claire Walters, Fiona Mejico and Samantha Pynn win the 4×200 in 1:51.08.
Mejico, in 43.05 seconds, was just ahead of Skaneateles’ Emme Conan (43.44) to win the 300-meter dash, with Walters going 9:38.15 to dominate the 3,000-meter run, Ani Sydorowych third in11:38.16.
In the 4×400 relay, Isabelle Adrian, Julia Egnaczyk, Maya McKenzie and Elizabeth Bansbach won in 4:30.92 for F-M as Mejico, Maddy Duggleby, Hannah Kaercher and Grace Kaercher went 9:37.48 to win the 4×800.
Isabel Zuber added to the Hornets’ win total when she went 16 feet 2 ½ inches to take the long jump, with Elina Cabrera fourth here and fifth in the triple jump as Pynn was third with 31’8 1/2”.
Harper Stoppacher, in the high jump, cleared 5’2” to edge East Syracuse Minoa’s Rhiannon Butchko, who was second with 5’1”. Wren Usiatynski then cleared 9’6” to win the pole vault, with J-D’s Eva Wisniewski second by topping 8 feet and teammate Lucy Heflin fourth.
J-D’s girls featured Monica Hernandez edging F-M’s Natalee Barber, 9.62 seconds to 9.69, to prevail in the 55-meter hurdles, with Laeticcia Bazile fifth. Grace Bridge was third in the 1,000 in 3:20.85. Rainer Yeager was third in the long jump with 15’8 1/4”, while Bazile was third in the high jump, topping 5 feet.
The J-D boys earned a victory in the 4×200 as its sprint quartet of Josh Duby, Haberle Conlon, Joe Staples and Nick Dekaney went 1:36.88 to beat out runner-up Cazenovia (1:37.90) and the field.
James Richer, throwing the shot put 44’4 1/2”, beat out F-M’s Dan Sokolovic (44’4”) by half an inch as Ben Staples was third with 39’5 1/2”. But Sokolovic won the weight throw by going 50’7 1/4” as Staples (43’2 3/4”) was fourth.
Duby would beat the field in the 300 in 36.99 seconds, with Conlon fifth. Staples also was second in the 55-meter dash in 6.86 seconds, with Josh Duby seventh. Sam Smith finished fifth in the pole vault.
Conlon, Nate DiDomenico, Caleb Smith and Aniket Maini were second in the 4×400 in 3:47.51 as Smith took fourth in the long jump with 19’9 1/2” and Maini was fifth in the triple jump.
F-M was fourth with 71 points in the boys meet and ESM was fifth with 42 points, including Rocky El rolling to victory in the triple jump when he went 40’7 1/2” after he was third in the 300 in 39.44 seconds. The Spartans’ Michael Parks cleared 5’8” in the high jump to finish third.
Michael Berg got second place in the 55 hurdles in 8.29 seconds, with El in sixth place behind J-D’s Nick Dekaney in fifth. The Rams also had Reinaldo Colon take sixth place in the 600.
Meanwhile, F-M went 1-2 in the 1,600-meter run, Sam Otis winning in 4:25.22 and Peyton Geehrer second in 4:29.32 as ESM had Nick Berg finish fourth in 4:33.35.
Geoff Howles, in 9:39.84, was victorious in the 3,200-meter run, and paired with Otis, Geehrer and Trevor Kurkin to win the 4×800 in 8:43.05, with J-D third in 9:30.84.
Christian Brothers Academy had 23 points in the girls meet, most of them from the 1,500-meter run, where Olivia Morganti won in 4:43.45.
Isabella Cannizzio was fourth, with F-M’ s Debbie Lucchetti second in 5:10.27 and ESM’s Rachael Ladd third in 5:12.27 to go with her fourth in the 1,000. Canizzo, Morganti, Talia Cannizzio and Isabella Cannizzio were second in the 4×800 in 10:33.08.
On the boys end, CBA had 29 points as Joel Gaffney won the 600 in 1:27.71, with F-M’s Mark Hanlon fifth.
Zach Medicis got second in the 1,000 in 2;41.71, just behind Baldwinsville’s Jack Michaels (2:41.57) as Michael McMahon got second place in the 3,200 in 10:15.44 behind Howles.
