by Mike Millson
CAZENOVIA – The Cazenovia varsity boys track and field team hosted Solvay last Wednesday, May 4, and won decisively 118-22 over the Bearcats.
It was the final home meet of the season, and there was a pre-meet ceremony recognizing the thirteen seniors who competed at the Buckley-Volo Field track for the last time: Elijah Clement, Blaze Dannen, Joseph Diana, Cassidy Gilmore, Cooper Hughes, Thomas Insel, Andrew Kent, Andrew Lee, Willem Light-Olson, Dan Millson, Faham Murad, Michael Senehi, and Quinn Smith.
Cool, rainy weather made for slow times and short distances, which made the personal records that were broken all the more impressive.
Top performances were by Connor Frisbie and Killian Blouin, who both set personal records with sectional qualifying efforts, Frisbie winning the 110 meter hurdles in 18.7 seconds and Blouin clearing 9 feet 6 inches in the pole vault.
Gilmore continued gaining momentum coming back from injury, winning the 1,600 meters in a season-best and sectional qualifying time of 5:07.5.
Other individual event winners were Kent in the 200 meters (24.5) and 400 meters (52.5), Frisbie in the high jump (5’ 0”) and triple jump (34’ 9 1/2”), J.P. Hoak in the 100 meters (12.1) and shot put (32’ 8”), Senehi in the 400 hurdles (1:07.4), Hughes in the 800 (2:17.3), Branden McColm in the 3,200 (11:40.8), and Clement in the discus (102’ 4”)
A baton drop disqualified the Lakers in the 4×100 meter relay; however the 4×400 and 4×800 meter relays took first place. The 4×400 team of Hughes, Kaplan, Millson, and Kent went 4:10.8. Hughes did double duty on the 4×800 team with McColm, Senehi, and Will Austin running 9:24.6.
Dannen took 23 seconds off his 3,200 meter time to set a new personal record of 13:55.8 and take third place.
Others delivering personal record performances included: Jaden Kaplan’s 55.1 in the 400 sprint and 54-foot discus throw; Light-Olden clearing 5 feet in the high jump; Miles Weiler with a throw of 32 feet in the shot put; Aidan Harig (20.7) in the 110 hurdles; Lee (26.6) and Trey Thornton (30.8) in the 200; Sam Wilcox (1:04.8) in the 400, J.D. Dolley (2:23.3) in the 800 and Will Schimer (1:13.8) and Henn Mongeaus (1:21.3) in the 400 hurdles.
