Having won Jan. 4 over Fayetteville-Manlius in the John Arcaro Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena, the Cazenovia boys indoor track and field team challenged the Hornets again six days later – but at a different venue, in a different format, and against a different field.
Utica College’s Hutton Dome hosted the fifth Mohawk Valley Indoor Track Association meet Friday night, the first time the Lakers had competed there this winter, and it nearly won again.
Cazenovia finished with 83.5 points, beating 23 different teams, but just behind F-M, who finished in front with 89 points, but the Lakers would win a pair of events, including the high jump, where Dalton Sevier won by clearing 6 feet 2 inches, with Dylan Anderson (5 feet) eighth.
Andrew Kent went one minutes, 27.63 seconds to edge Utica Proctor’s Haris Brankovic (1:27.99) and prevail in the 600-meter run, this before Kent was fifth in the 300-meter dash in 37.92 seconds, behind Slater DeLeon (37.55) in third place but just ahead of Joe Spires (37.97) in sixth place.
Spires, in 6.78 seconds, got second place behind Utica Proctor’s Damoy Allen (6.54) as DeLeon was seventh in 6.96 seconds and Dylan Anderson finished 11th, but Anderson improved to fifth place in the triple jump, going 39’1″ as Dylan Albicker was seventh in 38’6″. Sevier had a sixth-place pole vault clearance of 10’6″.
DeLeon put up a second-place long jump of 20′ 1 1/4″ behind Proctor’s Saleh Eltayeb (21’9 1/2″), with Albicker 11th. Spires, Connor Wilson, Andrew Lee and Charles Kubenick were second in the 4×200 relay in 1:39.30 to Proctor’s first-place 1:32.59.
Jared Smith recorded a fourth-place time of 2:52.09 in the 1,000-meter run, with Mike Senehi seventh in 2:55.83. Then Smith, Senehi, Hunter McCullough and Cassidy Gilmore finished second in the 4×800 relay in 9:04.82 to F-M’s 8:38.51.
Eric Groff was eighth in the 3,200-meter run in 11:07.64. Cormac Race, Alex Lansing, Ben McPherson and Jason Olkowski got to eighth place in the 4×400 relay in 4:02.46, with Stanley Angus 10th in the 1,600-meter run in 5:16.80. Olkowski was 11th in the 55-meter hurdles, with Gordan Wester 11th in the shot put and 13th in the weight throw.
A day later, both of the Chittenango indoor track teams took part in the morning session of the Fred Kirschenheiter Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena, with the Bears earning 16 points on the girls side and 14 points on the boys side.
Lauren Suppe gave the Chittenango girls a second-place finish in the 1,500 in 5:11.83, just behind the winning 5:11.42 from Cicero-North Syracuse’s Allison Newton as Suppe, Kiara Waite, Piper Beckwith and McKayla Capeling were third in the 4×800 in 10:48.06.
Tristam LaFountaine, Parker Tedford, Kenny Matthews and Warren Tedford finished third in the boys 4×400 in 3:46.94, with Parker Tedford rising to second place in the 300 in 38.64 seconds, trailing only the 37.23 from Jamesville-DeWitt’s Josh Duby.
