HOLLAND PATENT – A dominant season by the Cazenovia boys track and field team could only have one satisfactory conclusion.
And the Lakers achieved it when it earned the Section III Class B-2 championship Tuesday afternoon at Holland Patent High School with a superb all-around effort.
Earning double-digit points in every race but one, Cazenovia finished with 161 points, well clear of runner-up Clinton, who had 90 points. Skaneateles finished third with 70 points.
Andrew Kent and Jared Smith both won a pair of individual events, and the Lakers swept to victory in all three relay races, too.
Kent, the school-record holder in the 400-meter dash, won that race in 50.76 seconds as Jacob Ives (53.97) took fourth, while in the 200-meter dash Kent won in 23.06 seconds, with Slater DeLeon (23.81) getting third place.
As for Smith, he went 4:39.95 to pull away from the field in the 1,600-meter run before going to the 3,000-meter steeplechase and took that title in 11:17.56 as teammate Michael Senehi was second in 12:19 flat.
Smith, paired with Cassidy Gilmore, Cooper Hughes and Dan Millson, claimed the 4×800 relay in 8:28.06 as no one else broke then nine-minute mark. Kent and Millson joined Ives and Tom Insel to win the 4×400 relay in 3:42.14.
To complete the relay sweep, DeLeon joined Andrew Lee, Jack McNerney and Charles Kubinec to go 44.42 seconds in the 4×400, more than a second ahead of the 45.65 from Clinton.
Hughes was victorious in a close 800-meter run, his 2:04.90 edging Skaneateles’ Matt Persmapieri (2:05.14), with Senehi second in the 3,200-meter run in 10:58.41 as Smith took fifth place.
Dylan Albicker also found the win column when he covered the 400 hurdles in 1:02.58 to hold off Clinton’s Luke Pelkey (1:03.08). He also took second place in the triple jump with 39 feet 2 ½ inches and got third place in the long jump, going 19’6 1/4”.
DeLeon took second in the 100-meter dash in 11.30 seconds, just behind Canastota’s Devin Youker (11.25), with Patrick Livingston unleashing a second-place discus throw of 119’3”, close to the winning 121’2” of Hannibal’s Phillip Nosko as Elijah Clement was sixth with 99’1”.
