ONEIDA – Total victory was achieved by the Westhill girls and boys track and field teams during Thursday’s Section III Class B-1 championships at Oneida High School.
With 121 points, the girls Warriors easily pulled away from runner-up South Jefferson’s total of 84 points. It was closer in the boys B-1 meet, Westhill had 100 points to hold off Camden’s 86 points as Marcellus claimed fifth place in both events.
Leading the Westhill girls, Ashley Bolesh won twice, going to the front in the 400-meter dash in a swift 57.97 seconds and claiming the triple jump by going 33 feet 11 1/2 inches. Bolesh was also second in the 800-meter run in 2:30.35.
Angie Mesa ran 200 meters in 26 seconds flat to take second place and 100 meters in 12.79 seconds to grab third place, adding a third-place long jump of 15’4 1/2″ ahead of Kate Bendall (14’11 1/2″) in fourth place.
Isabel Young took second in the 400 hurdles in 1:09.36 and third in the 100 hurdles in 18.28 seconds, this to go with her third-place triple jump of 31’3 1/4″.
Mesa was also part of a 4×100 relay team with Bendall, Kaylin Battista and Olivia Holowinski that was second in 52.70 seconds. Battista, Holowinski, Young and Kennedy Rose were second in the 4×400 relay in 4:26.74, ahead of Marcellus (4:30.24) in third place as the Warriors also finished second in the 4×800 relay in 8:32.72.
Riley Grooms cleared 8 feet for third place in the pole vault, with Mary Kate Rewakowski fourth by topping 7’6″. Colleen Patrie was fifth in the shot put with a toss of 27’2 1/4″.
As for the Westhill boys, Evan Frost earned a victory in the 100 in 11.66 seconds chased by Solvay’s Allen Cawthon, who was fourth in 11.86 seconds as Frost took second in the 200 in 23.80 seconds and Cawthon (24.20) was third, with Lee Hynes fifth.
Frost and Hynes paired with Carter Buckman and Patrick Mahoney to win the 4×100 in 46.91 seconds, just ahead of Marcellus, who had Ryan Constable, Mason Grieb, Tyler Herr and Joe Striffler finish in 47.36.
Brandon Mulholland added a title in the 1,600-meter run, going 4:44.67 as part of a 1-2 finish with teammate Drew O’Reilly, who posted 4:48.27. Vincent Tarolli was second in the 400 hurdles in 1:00.41, with O’Reilly second in the 3,200-meter run in 10:30.99. Brian Kenny was fourth and Mullholland fifth in the 800.
Marcellus did see its girls team win the 4×800 relay as Virginia Lucchetti, Brielle McShane, Sophia Maum and Heidi Steigerwald post 10:19.82 to beat a field that included Westhill (10:50.78) in third place.
Sophia Shaw, fifth in the pole vault topping 7 feet, also prevailed in the high jump for the Mustangs, clearing 4’10” as Steigerwald was second with 4’8″ and Solvay’s Allison Dooher was third, also at 4’8″, ahead of Bendall and Westhill teammate Madison Scheirer.
Lauren Myers was second in the triple jump with 33’1 3/4″ behind Bolesh as Anella Bolster was fifth with 30’10”. Lucchetti took fourth place in the 1,500-meter run in 5:40.27, with Delaney Manahan fourth in the 400 sprint in 1:04.99 and Peter McCaffrey fifth in the discus.
Jonah Kwasnowski was second in the 110 hurdles in 16.25 seconds, with Grieb (17.11) fourth in this event and in the 400 hurdles. Solvay’s Brandon Burke was second in the high jump, clearing 5’8″ as Frost (5’4″) was fifth.
Herr was third in the 100 in 11.77 seconds and sixth in the 400 sprint. Caeden Cox took third in the 1,600 in 4:49.47. The boys Mustangs were third in the 4×400, beating out Westhill, 3:40.41 to 3:40.60, and fifth in the 4×800 as Nate Alexander was fifth in the 3,200, Constable sixth in the 200 and Striffler sixth in the triple jump.
In the Class AA sectional boys meet at Cicero-North Syracuse, West Genesee did quite well, earning 54 points to tie Liverpool and Rome Free Academy for third place. Only C-NS and Baldwinsville fared better.
The Wildcats were led by freshman Dominick Burris, who nearly won the 100, his time of 11.20 seconds only topped by the 11.18 from B’ville’s Sam Mellinger. Burris, Justin Byrne, Dominick Burns and Brandon Scott would take third in the 4×100 in 45.59 seconds.
Peter McMahon finished second in the 1,600 in 4:32.44, while Connor Scott, in the 200, dashed to third place in 22.88 seconds and Chris Moser was fifth in the 400 sprint in 53.81 seconds.
Brandon Scott unleashed a third-place triple jump of 40’8 1/4”, while Bryce Bort rose to fourth place in the long jump, going 21′ 1/2” as he joined Moser, Brandon Scott and Connor Scott to take third in the 4×400 in 3:36.17.
WG’s girls earned 12 points in its sectional AA meet at Liverpool, half of them in the discus throw, where Alexis Rydelek was fourth with a toss of 86’2” and Vivian Youmans was fifth with 83’4”.
The Wildcats had two other top-five finishes, from Lauren Puchta when she took fifth in the steeplechase in 8:24.77, and from the 4×800 relay team of Puchta, Zoe Maupin, Alana Eastman and Peyton Long who were fifth in 10:39.10.
