SYRACUSE – As the post-season looms, the Baldwinsville boys indoor track and field team is riding a win streak.
During last Saturday’s Bob Grieve Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena, the Bees captured the morning session by picking up 129.5 points to hold off a challenge from Fayetteville-Manlius, who was second with 112 points.
Sam Mellinger needed 6.64 seconds to claim yet another victory in the 55-meter dash and followed up by winning the 300-meter dash in 36.74 seconds. With Robert Thompson, Logan Hayes and Ryan Pelletier, Mellinger and the Bees were a close second (1:37.64) to F-M (1:37.28) in the 4×200 relay.
Solmon Holden-Betts won the first race of the meet when he covered 3,200 meters in 9:48.22, the only time under 10 minutes as Arthur Bauer (11:14.73) was sixth. In the 4×800 relay, Holden-Betts, Bauer, Jeff Ragonese and Kellan Vannatta got second place in 9:02.24.
B’ville also won in field events, where Owen Weaver had a top long jump of 20 feet 6 inches, going 1-2 with Thompson, who posted 19’8 1/2″. In the triple jump, Weaver was third with 39’11 1/4″.
In the 4×400 relay, Weaver, Hayes, Kyle Sheckler and Jack McAllister prevailed in 3:39.06, more than 10 seconds ahead of the field as McAllister also was second in the 600-meter run in 1:30.54, with Vannatta seventh in 1:32.61.
Pat Pasho had a second-place shot put toss of 41’8 3/4″ as Dan Ewald (39’3″) beat out Gibson Boudov (38’2″) for fourth place in the weight throw.
Ragonese was fifth in the 1,000-meter run in 2:48.15, while Logan Zapf was sixth in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.18 seconds. Sheckler cleared 9’6″ for fourth place in the pole vault and tied for seventh in the high jump, with Dylan Wertheim fifth in the pole vault.
B’ville’s girls team earned 40.5 points to take fifth place in the Grieve meet, including a win in the 4×200 as Kamryn Barton, Madison Kennedy, Avamarie Davis and Mia Pozzi went 1:55.87 to beat out Cicero-North Syracuse’s second-place 1:56.96.
Kennedy, Sophia Cavalieri, Clare Horan and Adrianna Orlando earned third place in the 4×800 in 11:17.44, with Orlando, Horan, Davis and Carlie DeSimone fourth in the 4×400 in 4:35.13. Cavalieri was seventh in the 600 in 1:50.48.
Pozzi took fifth in the 300 in 44.90 seconds, with Kelsey Dwyer seventh (45.95) to go with her fifth in the pole vault (7’6″) and eighth (28’11”) in the triple jump as Pozzi was eighth in the 55 sprint in 7.93 seconds.
