Whether inside or outside Central New York, the Cicero-North Syracuse girls track and field team knows how to impress anyone again which it competes.
The Northstars again stood out in the last days of April, taking team honors at Saturday’s Chittenango Invitational after Hannah Boyle went to the Penn Relays in Philadelphia and set a Section III record in the 1,600-meter run.
In the High School Girls Mile Run at Franklin Field, Boyle’s time of four minutes, 46.50 seconds shattered the previous mark of 4:48.05 set by Tully’s Brooke Rauber two years ago, wh
And it nearly gave Boyle a victory as she placed second in that race, beating most of an elite national field that included teammate Kate Putman, who was fifth in 4:48.46. Juliette Whittaker, from Mount de Sales (Maryland), won in 4:41.18.
Two days later, the C-NS girls would win at Chittenango with 93 points over second-place Fayetteville-Manlius (70 points) by getting three victories from Lilly Capria.
First, in the high jump, Capria cleared 5 feet 3 inches as no one else topped 5 feet. Then Capria wonthe long jump with a top leap of 15’8 ¾ to edge the 15’5” from Fabius-Pompey’s Jamie Ratliff, and was nearly a foot ahead of the field in the triple jump by going 35′ 1/4” as teammate Morgan Hayes was third with 33’7”.
Boyle and Putman, back from their trip to Philadelphia, paired with Jaydin Mackey and Grace Murray to win the 4×400 relay in 4:05.79, more than 11 seconds ahead of the field.
Putman stepped up and won the 400 hurdles in 1:06.37, going 1-2 with Grace Murray, who was second in 1:09.41, while Boyle was second (59.97 seconds) in the 400-meter dash to Westhill’s Ashley Bolesh, who won in 57.01.
Danielle Crivelli took second in the 100 hurdles in 16.82 seconds. C-NS also got third in the 4×800 relay in 10:30.34. Cha’Nya Jones earned sixth place in the shot put.
Liverpool had Ryan Hagan compete at the Penn Relays Friday in the boys 3,200-meter run, where he took 17th place in a time of 8:46.69.
Meanwhile, the girls Warriors had its own strong showing in the Chittenango Invitational, including the 4×100, where Sophia Jarosz, Mia Wright, Mikayla Greene and Janea Hamilton-Brown prevailed in 51.43 seconds as C-NS was third in 52.27.
Hamilton-Brown had a third-place shot put toss of 30’3 1/2”. Eva Woodworth took third in the girls mile in 5:31.11, with Meghan Moyer sixth. Beatrize Gurgol finish fourth in the girls pentathlon with 1,629 points while the Warriors were third in the 4×400 in 4;25.51 and fifth in the 4×800. Taylor Page took fifth in the 800.
The C-NS boys also had a strong showing, with Trevon Walker, Zuriel Dickerson, Josh Adams and Carlton Garnes third in the 4×100 in 45.96 seconds, with James McConnell, Liam Adams, Jake Trubia and Dan Henry third in the 4×400 in 3:42.57.
Sean Graves got second in the 400 hurdles in 1:02.37, with Garnes earning a third-place triple jump of 38’9”. Gavin McAllister was third in the pole vault, clearing 10’6”, and took fourth in the 400 sprint in 53.34 seconds.
Nathan Connors ran to fourth in the 800 in 2:06.82. Dante Melfi was fifth in the boys mile in 4:42.90, with Vince Pisa seventh in the shot put.
