SYRACUSE – For their second meet of the season, area high school indoor track and field teams spent Wednesday and Thursday at SRC Arena for the Oscar Jensen Relays.
Marcellus and Westhill had both won sessions of the Jack Morse Kickoff Meet a week earlier. Now, in the second session of the Jensen meet, the boys Mustangs would prevail again.
With 93 points, Marcellus held off, among others, the Warriors’ third-place total of 61.5 points as, on the girls side, Westhill’s 72.5 points trailed only Cicero-North Syracuse as the Mustangs (59 points) were fourth.
Wins came from the likes of Peter McCaffrey and Caeden Cox. McCaffrey had a top triple jump of 43 feet 1 ¾ inches as no one else broke the 40-foot mark, with Joe Striffler gaining third place at 38’6 1/4”.
Moving to the long jump, McCaffrey won with 19’7 1/2”, one inch ahead of C-NS’s Carlton Garnes as Ian Potter fit into sixth place with 17’9 1/2”. McCaffrey also cleared 5’3” in the high jump, tying Westhill’s Evan Frost for fourth as Xander Szalach shared seventh place.
In the mile run, Cox’s time of four minutes, 54.88 secondsedged out the 4:55.43 from Jamesville-DeWitt’s James Hillers, with Nate Alexanders fourth in 5:05.09. Cox also finished third in the 3,200-meter run in 10:28.23, with Alexander sixth.
Tyler Herr went 38.91 seconds to get second place in the 300-meter dash, with Frost fifth after Herr took second in the 55-meter dash in 7.03 seconds, where Ethan Snyder was sixth. Colin Gerbsch got third in the 600-meter run in 1:33.19 as Mason Grieb finished eighth.
Westhill’s boys went 1-2 in the pole vault, Patrick Mahoney clearing 10 feet and Carter Buckman topping 9’6”, while Brian Kenny was second in the 1,000-meter run in 2:46.60, ahead of Brian Allen in fifth place. Jon Gratien got fifth place in the triple jump with 36′ 3/4”.
On the girls side the Warriors’ Angie Mesa was victorious in the 55 sprint in 7.69 seconds, what turned out to be Westhill’s lone victory.
Ashley Bolesh took second in the triple jump with 34’2 1/4”as Ava Baty (29’11”) was fourth, just ahead of the Marcellus duo of Drew Johnson (fifth, 29 1/4”). Bolesh ran the 1,000 in 3:07.84 to finish third.
Mary Kate Rewakowski cleared 8 feet for second place in the pole vault as Corine Allen was fourth and Marcellus’ Hailey Satter fifth.
Kate Bendall, with a long jump of 14’9 3/4”, was one inch behind the 14’10 3/4”from Jamesville-DeWitt’s Sydney Balotin as Marcellus teammates Kaitlyn Worden and Lauren Weidner were sixth and seventh, respectively. Colleen Patrie was fourth in the shot put with 25’6”,
Marcellus had Heidi Steigerwald finish second in the high jump, clearing 4’10” as Westhill got Madison Scheirer into fifth place Virginia Lucchetti was fourth in the mile in 6:01.07, with Sophia Maum in sixth place
A day earlier, teams from Skaneateles, Jordan-Elbridge and Solvay were part of the first session of the Jensenmeet.
On the girls side, J-E’s Tatianna Parkolap was victorious in the high jump, clearing 4’8” with fewer misses than Skaneateles’ Rory Comer, who also got fifth place in the long jump with 14’4 3/4”.
Parkolap’s Eagles teammate, Vassianna Klock, went 5:32.09 in the mile, nearly winning it as she was less than a second behind Auburn’s Kyleen Brady, who won with 5:31.18.
The Lakers’ Kyla Palmer got to third place in the 55 sprint in 7.86 seconds, with Lillian Coleman sixth in the 1,000 in 3:35.61 and Annabel Wells ninth in the 55 hurdles.
Solvay’s Jessica Mann was fifth in the weight throw with 24’10 3/4”, while J-E’s Coral Uhle got seventh in the 300 and the Lakers’ Caroline Wells was eighth in the 3,000 and Cate Comer eighth in the 600.
The boys meet ncluded a fourth-place pole vault of 8’6” from the Lakers’ Alex Moro and Jack Phillips taking fifth in the 300 in 39.64 seconds and sixth in the 600 in 1:35.02. J-E’s Peyton Bates was seventh in the boys 3,200.
