Each of the Baldwinsville indoor track and field teams put up superb efforts during last Saturday’s Section III Class AA championship meet at SRC Arena.
And for the boys Bees, it nearly meant a sectional title as it earned 88 points, just behind the 91.5 that Cicero-North Syracuse needed to finish on top.
On the oval, B’ville got a victory from Connor Waldron, who covered 600 meters in one minute, 27.01 seconds to pull clear of Utica Proctor’s Harris Brankovic (1:29.38) and the field.
Adding a second title, Waldron beat the field in the 300-meter dash in 36.98 seconds as another Proctor runner, Azzan Johnson, was second in 37.43 seconds.
In the pole vault, Aidan Priest, clearing 11 feet 6 inches, beat out Liverpool’s Jamie Vong (11 feet) for that top spot. Robert Thompson’s long jump of 19’11 1/2” put him second to C-NS’s Isaiah Wright, who won with 21’11 1/2”.
In the 1,000-meter run, Jack Michaels finished in 2:42.44, second to the 2:38.96 from C-NS’s R.J. Davis, with Michaels also fifth in the 1,600-meter run in 4;37.65 as he helped Colin Delaney, James Cary and Tom Hagopian get second place in the 4×800 relay in 8:28.89 to the winning 8:25.13 from Fayetteville-Manlius.
Sam Mellinger, in 6.72 seconds, was runner-up to Proctor’s Damoy Allen (6.54) in the 55-meter dash. Delaney ran 3,200 meters in 9:49.27 and made his way to fourth place.
Waldron, Quinn Peters, Nate Hludzenski and Logan Hayes were third in the 4×400 relay in 3:42.02, while Mellinger, David Mahar, Malik Davis and Robert Thompson were third in the 4×200 relay in 1;36.57.
Steven Miller had a third-place weight throw of 51’8” and earned fifth place in the shot put, throwing it 44′ 1/2” as Adam Graham was seventh with 39’1” in the shot put and Alex Boak had a seventh-place weight throw of 47’6”.
The B’ville girls earned 63 points for a fourth-place finish, which included Karen Ekure’s sprint sweep.
In the 55, Ekure went 7.32 seconds as part of a 1-2 effort with Lauren Addario, who finished in 7.47 seconds. Then, in the300, Ekure went 42.48 seconds as F-M’s Phoebe White (43.05) was more than half a second behind.
Nearly getting a third title in the 4×200, Ekure, along with Addario, Hannah Johnson and Courtney Botstic, were second in 1:48.73, one-hundredth of a second behind the 1:48.72 from F-M.
Johnson, Madison Kennedy, Avamarie Davis and Carlie DeSimon were second in the 4×400 in 4:22.05, also with F-M in front in 4:04.09. Ella Smith, clearing 8 feet, was second in the pole vault to F-M’s Wren Usiatynski (10 feet).
Lauren Shaler, with her weight throw of 33’7 1/2”, put herself in fourth place, while Sarah Smiley (32’6”) edged Kathryn Mitts (32’4 1/2”) for sixth place.
Allyson Surowick earned fifth place in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.44 seconds and was fifth in the long jump with 16’1 1/4”. Anna Conklin, Sage Springsteen, Sarah Fawwaz and Bailey Nicholson were fifth in the 4×800 in 10:44.61.
