CENTRAL NEW YORK – Only a couple of points ended up keeping the Cazenovia boys cross country team from an undefeated run through the Onondaga High School League Liberty National division.
During last Wednesday’s meet against Westhill and Christian Brothers Academy, the Lakers prevailed 21-37 over the Brothers, but dropped a 27-29 decision to the Warriors.
Cazenovia had four of the top seven finishers, but Westhill went 1-2 as Drew O’Reilly won in 15 minutes, 11 seconds and Teddy Popp pulled away for seconds place in 16:13.
Behind them, Branden McColm gave the Lakers a third-place clocking of 17:08, with Will Austin fourth in 17:16.
Eddie Comeau finished in 17:26, sixth behind the Warriors’ Bryce Burdick (17:19), while Jake Woolbert was seventh in 17:34 as Westhill’ sCarlos Ramos, in 17:45, earned eighth place.
Cazenovia went from here to compete in Saturday’s Tully Invitational, where it finished seventh among 16 teams with 187 points, led again by McColm.
In a time of 18:26.4, McColm made his way to ninth place, less than a minute from the winning 17:31.6 posted by Christian Brothers Acaedemy’s Charles Raymond.
Austin was 27th among team runners (29th overall) in 19:32.4, with Woolbert 35th in the team standings in 19:51.1 as Garrett Lounsbury, in 20:35.9, beat out the 20:41.1 from Kooper Wilmot.
Chittenango had its girls team compete at Tully, with Bailee Burton getting to 19th place in the team race and 21st overall in a clocking of 22:33.7.
Natalie DiGennaro made her way to 24th place in 22:50.9, just ahead of Ani McCarthy’s 23:20.3 as Emily Judd finished in 23:29.9 and Evelyn Wynkoop posted 24:00.9.
