Amid the busiest stretch of its season, the Cazenovia boys indoor track and field team maintained top form, prevailing in last Tuesday’s John DiMao Memorial Invitational at Colgate University’s Sanford Field House
This meet was the second of three events in nine days for the Lakers, who were at Utica College for a Mohawk Valley ITA meet Jan. 10 and would conclude its regular season Saturday at SRC Arena with the Bob Grieve Invitational.
Now, though, Cazenovia put together 103.5 points in the DiMao meet, well clear of runner-up Clinton’s total of 83 points amid a 12-team field.
In the 4×200 relay, the Lakers took its first race as Slater DeLeon, Joe Spires, Connor Wilson and Andrew Lee posted one minute, 37.78 seconds to beat out the 1:39.59 from second-place Vernon-Verona-Sherrill.
Spires, in 5.98 seconds, beat out DeLeon (6.07) as the Lakers went 1-2 in the 45-meter dash. Then DeLeon had a winning long jump of 20 feet 1 ¾ inches as he and Charlie Aronson took the team event with 37’3 3/4”.
Andrew Kent won the individual 500-meter run in 1:10.49 as he and Dan Millson got fourth-place team points. Then Kent, joined by Cormac Race, Dylan Albicker and Alex Lansing, beat the field in the 4×400 relay in 3:45.50.
Dalton Sevier, clearing 6 feet, won the individual high jump as he and Spires (5 feet) were second to Clinton’s 11’4”. Seiver and Elijah Clement cleared 18’6” in the pole vault together, again finishing second.
Mike Senehi and Stanley Angus took second place in the 1,600-meter run in total times of 9:22.23 to Central Valley Academy’s winning 9:16.69. Albicker and Dylan Anderson went 75’11 3/4” in the triple jump for second place behind Clinton’s 76’2 1/2”.
Senehi and Cassidy Gilmore were second in the 800-meter run in 4:26.21, with Wilson and Jason Olkowski second in the 50-meter hurdles in 17.05 seconds.
Olkowski paired with Gordan Wester to help Cazenovia get third place in the weight throw, going 73’9” with their tosses. The Lakers finished fifth in the distance medley relay in 12:26.73.
Four days later, the Lakers finished third in the morning session of the Bob Grieve Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena, trailing only Liverpool and Fayetteville-Manlius.
Kent again was victorious, going 1:26.22 to beat the field at 600 meters. Spires, in 6.83 seconds, was second in the 55 sprint and then paired with Wilson, Lansing and Andrew Lee to win the 4×200 in 1:40.27.
Smith was second in the 3,200 in 10:12.94, with Wilson third in the 55 hurdles in 9.01 seconds and third in the high jump, clearing 5’6”.
Seveier went to third place in the pole vault, clearing 10’6” as Eljiah Clement tied for seventh. Senehi was fifth in the 1,000 in 2:53.70. Wester had a third-place shot put toss of 38’7 ½” and was fifth in the weight throw.
Chittenango was also at the DiMao meet, earning 19.5 points on the boys side and 18 points on the girls side.
The boys Bears’ 4×400 relay team of Caleb LeBlanc, Parker Tedford, Warren Tedford and Kenny Matthews were second in 3:51.54 to Cazenovia.
Matthews, Nate Vivelo and the Tedfords finished \fourth in the 4×200 in 1:42.41. The Bears were also seventh in the 1,600 and 500.
In the afternoon session of the Grieve meet, the Chittenango girls earned 49 points, with Lailah Emad second and Bailee Burton third in the 3,000.
Lauren Suppe took third and McKayla Capeling fourth in the 1,500 as the Bears were second in the 4×800 in 11:01.62 and fourth in the 4×400 as Piper Beckwith was fifth in the 1,000.
Parker Tedford was second in the boys 600 in 1:33.69, with Kenny Matthews fifth in the 300. Chittenango’s boys were third in the 4×400 in 3:46.99 and also third (1:41.38) in the 4×200. Nate Vivelo was sixth in the shot put.
Piper Beckwith and Lailah Emad were fourth in the girls 1,500-meter run in 11:07.64, with Suppe, Kiara Waite, McKayla Capeling and Jordan Wagner fourth in the distance medley in13:54.16. Suppe and Waite finished fifth in the 500, with the Bears seventh in the 800.
