SYRACUSE – With every point valuable, the Liverpool girls indoor track and field team held off Fayetteville-Manlius for top honors at Wednesday’s opening session of the Oscar Jensen Relays at SRC Arena.
The Warriors finished with 70.5 points, just ahead of the Hornets’ total of 67 points as the Liverpool boys got third place with 53 points behind F-M and first-place Baldwinsville.
Winning the 55-meter hurdles, Liverpool had Beatrize Gugol get third place in 10.34 seconds, with Natalie Venesky fifth in 10.46 seconds.
Sophia Jarosz was fourth in the 55-meter dash in 7.86 seconds and ran the 300-meter dash in 45.53 seconds, gaining fifth place as Ashlyn Brown (49.27) was 10th. Kara Nash got fifth place in the 3,000-meter run in 12:27.31, with Katie Nash seventh in 12:51.20.
Gugol cleared 4’3” in the high jump to tie for seventh. Molly Ryan was sixth (26’10 1/4”) and Olivia Maturo seventh (26’9 3/4”) in the triple jump. Sophie Hoy finished 10th in the long jump and Kyleigh Smith was 10th in the mile.
In the boys Jensen meet, Jalen Graham had a spectacular effort in the weight throw to highlight the meet for the Liverpool boys, his toss of 61’9 1/4” crushing a field where no one else even reached 44 feet. Graham was third in the shot put with 38’6 1/2”.
Jason Swanson took fourth in the 300 in 39.57 seconds, with Joshua Vang fourth in the 3,200-meter run in 11:04.95 as Swanson got seventh (7.05 seconds) in the 55 sprint, edging LaQuan Lemon (7.07) in ninth.
Declan Fahy cleared 9 feet in the pole vault to finish third. Aiden Tornabene was fifth in the triple jump with 32’7” and ninth in the 55 hurdles, with Josiah Dickens earning a sixth-place long jump of 17’4 as Ny’Quez Madison topped 5’3” in the high jump for fifth place. Ariyah Racciatti was seventh in the shot put with 25’7”.
When Cicero-North Syracuse took its turn in last Thursday’s second session of the Jensen Relays, the girls earned 95 points to pull away from runner-up Westhill (72.5) and the field as the boys got 74 points, behind only Marcellus’ 93.
Going 1-2 in the girls 1,000, the Northstars had Hannah Boyle win in 2:58.07 as Gabby Putman was second in 3:04.79 and Katy Harbold fourth in 3:12.95. Boyle would also win the 300 in 43.50 seconds as Marissa Doty (43.66) was third and Grace Murray fourth in 46.01.
Seventh-grader Sophia Graham followed up by winning the 600 in 1:44.20, with Ellilana Balagh third in 1:48.69. In the 3,000, Marissa Navarra prevailed in 10:56.65 to Allison Moran’s second-place 12:07.27.
C-NS freshman Grace Murray was victorious in the 55 hurdles in 10.41 seconds, with Bella Julian (10.75) fourth and Danielle Crivelli (10.82) fifth.
Lilly Capria was the only competitor in the high jump to clear 5 feet, and then won again in the triple jump by going 35’3 1/2” as Murray was third with 32 feet.
Kaleigh Boismenu topped 7’6” in the pole vault for third place as Elizabeth Smith was third in the mile in 5:59.44, with Allison Navarra fifth in 6:02.60. Jasmine Ayre had a third-place long jump of 14’3” and Maria Sanfilippo was fifth in the weight throw, tossing it 26’10”.
Carlton Garnes led the C-NS boys, getting a trio of runner-up finishes.
Garnes took second in the 55 hurdles in 8.26 seconds, with Sean Graves third in 8.96. Then, in the long jump, Garnes’ 19’6 1/2” was second by a single inch to the 19’7 1/2” from Marcellus’ Peter McCaffrey, and he was second again to McCaffrey in the triple jump, going 39’3 3/4” as Walker finished eighth.
Gavin McAllister had a second-place clocking of 1:31.61 in the 600 as James McConnell (1:34.50) was fifth, McAllister also third in the pole vault clearing 9 feet.
Dante Melfi took third in the 1,000 in 2:50.62, with Trevon Walker fourth in the 55 sprint in 7.14 seconds to go with a fourth in the long jump. Justin Asch was fifth and Aaron Dunn seventh in the 3,200. Grady Kennedy earned eighth in the weight throw.
