CENTRAL NEW YORK – A trio of area indoor track and field teams found plenty of success in both sessions of Saturday’s John Arcaro Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena.
Fayetteville-Manlius won the boys morning session, picking up 98 points to Liverpool’s 94 as Jamesville-DeWitt was third with 90 points.
Nolan McGinn had a winning 1,600-meter time of 4:38.40. In the 4×400 relay, F-M had Ore Abolade, Vincent Hunt, Guy Juran and Carter Husted earn a victory in 3:47.87, with Hunt fourth in the 300-meter dash. Juran later got a second-place triple jump of 37 feet 6 ½ inches as Mike Meskos was fourth (35’2”) for J-D.
Ben Perry ran 3,200 meters in 10:10.62 to finish second, with Daniel Patrick fourth and J-D’s Ashton Corona fifth. Will Seamans got second place in the 1,000-meter run in 2:42.77, with Liam Malgieri third (37’7 1/4”) in the shot put ahead of J-D’s Shaun Gladle (35’2 1/2”) in fourth place.
The Red Rams got a victory from Nick Dekaney in the 55-meter hurdles, his 7.97 seconds well clear of a field that included F-M’s Connor Ball, who was third in 9.32 as Ahmed Hassan was sixth.
In the 4×200, Dekaney, Dante Santos, Adam Rigdon and Caleb Smith won in 1:37.27, with F-M fifth, and Smith went from there to post a winning long jump of 20 feet ¾ inch, with Santos (18’2 3/4”) third.
The Hornets were second in the 4×800 relay in 8:34.70, just behind Westhill’s 8:32.20, as J-D got third place in 8:56.18 and Smith, in the high jump, cleared 5’9” for third place, one spot ahead of Dekaney.
Santos was third in the 55-meter dash in 7.01 seconds. Shane Gargiulo was fourth in the 600-meter run in 1:34.04. James Hillers was fifth in the 1,600, with Will Westpfal fifth in the 300.
In the girls morning session, J-D was second with 80 points to Liverpool’s 108, with F-M fourth as Sydney Balotin, Jaden Clemons-Butenko, Kaitlyn Lubenstein and Madeline Carter were second for the Red Rams in the 4×200 in 1:56.29.
F-M had Izzie Sullivan go 9:59.94 to beat the field in the 3,000-meter run, while the 4×800 team of Isabella Adrian, Debbie Lucchetti, Maria Khalifeh and Julia Sun prevailed in 10:42.19.
Hananh Kaercher, in 4:34.69, dominated the 1,500, with Amelia Amack edging Sullivan for second place. Adrian, Khalifeh, Maya McKenzie and Elizabeth Bansbach took the 4×400 in 4:25.53 to beat J-D’s second-place 4:35.62.
Wren Usiatynski won for the Hornets in the pole vault, clearing 11 feet. McKenzie was second in the 55 sprint in 7.66 seconds, while Khalifeh was third in the 1,000.
J-D’s Lucy Heflin cleared 4’6” to tie for third in the high jump and topped 8 feet in the pole vault for fourth place. Nicolette Militi took fifth in the 1,000 for J-D, who also had Maeve Murphy finish fourth in the long jump and Josie Coyne fifth in the weight throw.
Then the afternoon session featured East Syracuse Minoa as its boys team, with 79 points, trailed only Baldwinsville’s total of 98.5 points.
Michael Parks was victorious in the 55 hurdles in a blistering 7.58 seconds, nearly a full second ahead of the field, and beat the field in the high jump by clearing 6’1”.
Rocky El won the 55 sprint in 6.92 seconds as Aidan Hirt was sixth to go with a sixth in the 300 ahead of Dan Tovar in seventh place.
Tovar, Hirt, El and Parks roared to vicory in the 4×200 in 1:39.95 to Syracuse ITC’s second-place 1;41.40, and in the triple jump El soared to 44’2 1/2” as no one else even reached the 40-foot mark.
Kevin Hasty had a weight throw of 50’5” and a shot put toss of 39’9”, each good for third place.
Sol Scofield, fourth in the triple jump, ran to fourth in the 1,000 in 1:33.33. Joe Pedrosa-Garcia earned sixth place in the 1,000, while Brandon Cerlanck was seventh in the 1,600.
The ESM girls were seventh, which include Giana DiPietro clearing 4’6” for second place in the high jump.
Rachael Ladd got a fourth-place time of 5:26.05 in the 1,500 and was sixth in the 600 as the Spartans took fifth in the 4×400 and 4×200. Lilia Pena earned seventh place in the 300.
A day earlier, in the Mohawk Valley ITA meet at Utica College, Bishop Grimes’ Sean Moran won the boys 3,200 in 10:54 flat, while Christian Brothers Academy’s Joe McMahon claimed the 1,600 in 4:53.69 and his teammate, Cooper Groat, claimed the 600 in 1:27.28.
