Another venture by the Baldwinsville indoor track and field teams to SRC Arena ended with solid performances in the morning session of Saturday’s George Constantino Memorial Invitational.
The boys Bees amassed 79 points, third behind Jamesville-DeWitt and Cazenovia, while the B’ville girls only had 54 points, but it still put them fourth, just behind Cazenovia’s third-place total of 55.5 points.
A full 21 points for the boys stemmed from the 1,000-meter run, won by Jack Michaels in two minutes, 41.57 seconds as Connor Waldron was third in 2:41.91 and Colin Delaney was fourth in 2:44.63.
Aidan Priest tied for the best effort in the pole vault, clearing 11 feet, but with more misses than Cazenovia’s Dalton Sevier, who won as Priest settled for second place.
With a triple jump of 40 feet 3 inches, Owen Weaver was second to East Syracuse Minoa’s Rocky El (40’7 1/4”), and also had a fifth-place long jump of 19’9 1/2” as Robert Thompson was seventh with 19’3”.
Steven Miller got second place in the weight throw with a best heave of 44’9 3/4”, with Alex Boak (42’8 1/2”) in fifth place. Miller’s shot put toss of 39′ 1/4”, beat out Adam Graham (38’6 3/4”) for fourth place.
Solomon Holden-Betts needed 10:58.88 in the 3,200-meter run to finish fifth. Kenneth Svitak gained sixth place in the 300-meter dash in 39.93 seconds.
The Bees’ best relay effort came in the 4×200, where Svitak, Sam Mellinger, Anthony White and David Mahar were fourth in 1:39.16. B’ville finished sixth in the 4×800 relay in 10:06.22.
On the girls side, B’ville had Kathryn Nice, Brianna Natoli, Madison Kenney and Olivia Creelman make it to second place in the 4×400 relay in 4:39.40 as Fayetteville-Manlius won in 4:30.92.
Later, the Bees were fifth in the 4×200 in 1:57.80 as Creelman took 10th in the triple jump and Ella Smith, by topping 7’6”, made it to third place in the pole vault.
Allyson Surowick went 9.73 seconds in the 55-meter hurdles and took third place, adding a sixth-place long jump of 15 feet. Lauren Shaler’s weight throw of 29’5 1/2” put her fourth as Sarah Smiley (28’7 3/4”) finished fifth. Karen Ekure cleared 4’10” for fifth place in the high jump.
Hannah Johnson was fifth in the 600 in 1:52.42, while Sage Springsteen ran 3,000 meters in 12:15.32 for seventh place and Anna Conklin was seventh in the 1,000 in 3:26.51. The Bees were eighth in the 4×800 in 12:43.62.
