BALDWINSVILLE – A big moment in the season for both of the Baldwinsville track and field teams fell on a sunny Saturday morning in mid-May.
That was when the Bees and one of its main rivals, Liverpool, clashed at LHS Stadium, with both sides undefeated and tied with Cicero-North Syracuse atop the Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division standings.
Three days earlier, B’ville had hosted West Genesee, sweeping that meet as, on the boys side, the Bees whipped the Wildcats 101-40 with another fine all-around effort.
David Dobrowolski not only was first in the discus with a throw of 108 feet 2 inches, he also ran 1,600 meters in four minutes, 54.5 seconds, complementing Colin Delaney’s victory in the 800 in 2:05.6.
Connor Waldron went 53.6 seconds in the 400 sprint and also won the 200 in 23.2 seconds, pairing with Logan Hayes, Owen Weaver and Luke DeFio to win the 4×400 in 3:38.6.
Weaver, for his part, had a top long jump of 19’2”, with Aiden Micho going 38’3 3/4” in the triple jump. Tom Bernardin was victorious in the 400 hurdles in 1:03.5 as Dylan Barber threw the shot put 36’2” and Kyle Sheckler topped 5’4” to win the high jump.
The B’ville girls beat WG 84-58, led by Ella Smith, who won three times, clearing 9 feet in the pole vault, going 1:22.2 in the 400 hurdles and earning a top long jump of 12’10”.
Sweeping the relay events, the Bees started in the 4×400, where Ava Davis, Maddie Simons, Carsyn Cronin and Maddie Kennedy paired up to earn a victory in four minutes, 36.6 seconds.
Simons and Davis returned in the 4×100, where they joined Rachel Pawelek and Maddie Diep to get first place in 54.4 seconds before a 4×800 where Kennedy, Olivia Creelman, Sophia Cavalieri and Adriana Orlando made their way to a victory in 10:53.9.
Creelman unleashed a first-place triple jump of 29 feet 6 ½ inches, with Kennedy first in the 400-meter dash in 1:03.5 as Pawelek got the title in the 100-meter dash in 13.7 seconds.
