LIVERPOOL – One more time, the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool girls track and field teams battled each other head-to-head as part of Tuesday’s Section III Class AA championship meet at LHS Stadium.
The Northstars, led by sophomore stars Hannah Boyle and Kate Putman, earned 107 points, while the Warriors got 84 points.
And they both were well back of the winning total of 180 points posted by Fayetteville-Manlius, who swept the relays and had 100 and 200-meter victories from junior Maya McKenzie.
Still, Boyle and Putman broke up the Hornets’ dominance on the track, Boyle by tearing to a time of 57.73 seconds to win the 400-meter dash, with McKenna Slate sixth in 1:01.96.
Though Boyle had set the state’s fastest 800-meter time this spring, it was Putman racing here and winning in 2:15.39, with Liverpool’s Sydney Carlson third (2:24.61) and Eva Woodworth (2:26.04) third and fourth, respectively.
Another C-NS win came from Allison Newton, who went to the 400 hurdles and, in 1:07.51, beat out the 1:10.92 from the Warriors’ Kaitlyn Burt as Morgan Kingdeski got fourth place in 1:12.30. And in the high jump, Lilly Capria prevailed by topping 5 feet 3 inches to beat the 5’1” from F-M’s Harper Stoppacher.
Putman also finished third in the 1,500-meter run in 4:37.24, with Marissa Navarra sixth as Boyle, Putman, Newton and Hannah Reichard were second in the 4×800 relay in 9:35.04, just ahead of the 9:37.35 from the Warriors’ quartet of Carlson, Woodworth, Kaleigh Buck and Gabby McCarthy.
In the 4×400, Boyle, Newton, McKenna Slate and Hannah Reichard were second in 4:20.30, with Liverpool’s quartet of Woodworth, Jarosz, Burt and Sophie Hoy third in 4:21.92.
C-NS’s Brooke Blaisdell twice was a runner-up, her long jump of 17’5 1/4” behind the 18’1 1/2” from Utica Proctor’s Tamiah Washington and her triple jump of 36’11 1/4” trailing Washington’s 37’7 1/2”.
Moenae Washington finished third in the 200-meter dash in 27.57 seconds, with Stephanie Webb third in the discus as she threw it 89’1”. Morgan Hayes finished sixth in the long jump with 14’6 1/2”.
Liverpool’s Meghan Moyer ran 3,000 meters in 11:21.23 to take third place and Lauren Purvis finished fifth (11:31.68), with Navarra (11:28.82) in between them.
Sophia Recuparo was third and Amelia Loop fourth in the pole vault, both clearing 8’6”. Allie Cary threw the shot put 32’11 1/4”, beating out teammate Janea Hamilton-Brown (32’3”) for fourth place.
Burt took fourth place in the 100 hurdles in 17.73 seconds and, with Sophia Jarosz, Anahrie Anderson and Janea Hamilton-Brown, got second in the 4×100 relay in 52.35 seconds ahead of C-NS (53.50) in fourth place. Jarosz took sixth in the 200 in 27.96 seconds.
