Indoor track teams from Fayetteville-Manlius and Jamesville-DeWitt would find plenty of success during separate sessions of last Saturday’s Bob Grieve Invitational at SRC Arena.
F-M’s girls won the morning session with 147 points to Liverpool’s 136.5, with the boys Hornets getting 77 points, second behind the Warriors’ winning total of 114.
Claire Walters needed 2:59.32 to prevail at 1,000 meters as she joined Phoebe White, Maddy Duggleby and Grace Kaercher to go 9:39.98 in the 4×800 relay.
White, Grace Kaercher, Fiona Mejico and Arianna Caron won the 4×400 relay in 4:07.43, with Hannah Kaercher second (4:43.57) and Grace Kaercher third (4:51.75) in the 1,500-meter run as the Hornets finished second in the 4×200 relay in 1:52.71.
Isabel Zuber won the triple jump, going 35 feet 5 inches as she and Samantha Pynn (32’8 ¾”) went 1-2, Zuber also second in the long jump with 16’5 ½’ as Pynn finished fourth. Harper Stoppacher cleared 5’2” in the high jump to finish seconds, with Wren Usiatynski clearing 9 feet in the pole vault for third place.
Ani Sydorowych was second and Amelia Amack fourth in the 3,000-meter run, Lejla Borcillo taking fourth in the 600-meter run as Natalee Barber was third in the 55-meter hurdles. Maya McKenzie was fourth and Elrose Hanlon fifth in the 300-meter dash, with Tochi Ezidegwu fifth in the shot put.
The F-M boys had Dan Sokolovic throwing the shot put 43’9 ½” to win there and then unleash a winning weight throw of 49’11 ½” to sweep the throwing events.
Peyton Geehrer won the 1,000 in 2:40.39, with Corey Gallagher winning the 300 in 38.19 seconds as Ian Brown finished fourth and
Geehrer, Sam Otis, Geoff Howles and Jack Altimonda roared to a win in the 4×800 in 8:29.93, with the Hornets third in the 4×200 in 1:43.30.. Gallagher was fourth in the 55-meter dash, with Trevor Kurkin fourth in the 1,600-meter run.
Then it was Jamesville-DeWitt’s turn in the afternoon session of the Grieve meet, and the Red Rams got 159.5 points, second to Cicero-North Syracuse (187.5) as the girls finished third with 96 points.
Joe Staples won the boys 55 sprint for J-D in 6.88 seconds to the 6.92 from C-NS’s Sam Nessel, and Nick Dekaney dominated the 55 hurdles, winning in 8.36 seconds. Staples, Dekaney, Josh Duby and Haberle Conlon paired to win the 4×200 in 1:35.55.
In the 4×800, the Rams has Kaleel Boykins, Ahviere Reese, Renaldo Colon and Josh Hillers win in 8:47.62. J-D also got second place in the 4×400 in 3:41.70 to West Genesee’s 3:41.40 as Conlon finished third in the 300.
James Richer had a winning shot put throw of 43’6 ¾”, with Ben Staples (40’ ¾”) fourth, but moving up to win the weight throw by going 45’6 ¼” as Richer was third (40’5 ½”) and Jason Pritts fourth (39’3 ½”).
Caleb Smith had a second-place long jump of 19’9 ½” and was second (37’3 ¼”) over Aniket Maini (37’ 1 ½”) in the triple jump. Dekaney topped 5’8” for second place in the high jump, with Smith (5’6”) in third place.
Sam Smith got third place in the 1,000, ahead of Nate Rindfuss in fifth place.. Boykins got third place in the 1,500 and Reese was fifth as Tyler Aitken was fifth in the 3,200.
On the girls side for J-D, Rainer Yaeger beat the field in the long jump, going 15’10 ½”, and was second in the triple jump with 33’4”. Laetticia Bazile cleared 5 feet in the high jump for second place.
Eva Wisniewski won the pole vault, clearing 8’6” as Lucy Heflin (7 feet) was third. Monica Hernandez was second in the 55 hurdles in 9.68 seconds, with Bazile fifth, the pair helping the Rams finish third in the 4×200 in 1:55.38.
The J-D girls were third in the 4×400 and fourth in the 4×800 as Grace Bridge was third in the 600 in 1:47.93 and Jillian Kordas was fifth in the 1,500. Brelyn Tyler finished fifth in the shot put.
