SYRACUSE – Little time separates fall from winter sports, especially on the running side, when cross country runners wrap up their seasons just as indoor track begins.
And it starts for Section III athletes with the Jack Morse Kickoff Meet, held over two nights at SRC Arena with Cicero-North Syracuse taking its turn on the second night after Liverpool competed the night before.
Winning again in that Thursday session, C-NS’s girls had 118 points, well clear of Baldiwnsville’s 83.5, while the boys’ total of 86 points only trailed the Bees’ winning 106.5.
To get going, the C-NS girls’ 4×800 relay team of Katy Harbold, Tabby Coombs, Sophia Graham and Kim Bisesi went 10 minutes, 53.44 seconds to win as no one else broke the 11-minute mark.
Later, in the 4×400, Cameron Sisk, Evelyn Zdrojewski, Erin Slusser and Skylar Denton won in 4:44.12 to Cato-Meridian’s 4:49.55, with Marissa Navarra taking the 1,500-meter run in 5:05.95 as Elizabeth Smith finished fourth.
Graham, Grace Murray, Eva Farone and Jaydin Mackey teamed to win the sprint medley relay in 4:39.32, edging B’ville’s 4:49.52. The Northstars were second in the 4×200 relay in 1:57.99.
Morgan Hayes, in 9.29 seconds, edged Murray (9.35) as the Northstars went 1-2 in the 55-meter hurdles, and Hayes would later win the high jump by clearing 4 feet 10 inches.
Mackey was third in the 55-meter dash in 7.64 seconds, with Ava Giannuzzi fifth in 7.96. Murray was second in the long jump with 15’1”, beating out Kali Congden’s third-place 14’6”.
Kaleigh Bosimenu cleared 8’6: for second place in the pole vault, while Maria Sanfilippo got second in the weight throw with 28’8 3/4” ahead of Ava Schiff in fourth place and Juliana Carter in fifth place.
In the boys meet, C-NS also won the 4×400 as Dan Henry, Jacob Klasen, Sean Graves and Liam Adams went 3:44.65, more than 10 seconds ahead of runner-up Chittenango. Tyler Graham followed with a 1,600-meter victory in 4:59.93, more than 11 seconds clear of the field.
C-NS also was third in the 4×800 in 9:28.16, third in the 4×200 in 1:42.57 and fifth in the sprint medley. Camron Ingram was fifth and Trevon Walker sixth in the 55 hurdles.
Walker improved to second in the long jump when he went 19′ 1/2” and also had a second-place triple jump of 38’9 1/4”, with Ingram in sixth place. Gavin Goettel cleared 5’2” to tie for third in the high jump.
Against 17 other teams in the first session, the Liverpool girls, with 58.5 points, trailed only the 78 from Cazenovia, while the boys earned 47 points for fourth place as Fayetteville-Manlius (79) prevailed there.
Getting its lone win in the weight throw, Liverpool’s girls saw Allie Cary heave it 35’4 1/2″, while Deidre Williams was fifth with 28’8 1/4” and Trinity Howard (27’5 1/4”) got sixth place.
Beatrize Gugol, in 9.99 seconds, beat out Layla Pearl Collins (10.52) for fifth place in the 55 hurdles. The Warriors were sixth in the 4×400 relay in 4:58.16 as Gurgol topped 4’6” in the high jump for seventh place.
Layla Pearl Collins tied for fourth in the pole vault, clearing 6’6”. Sophie Hoy had a fifth-place long jump of 13’4 1/2”. Sophia Jarosz got fifth in the 55-meter dash in 7.84 seconds andthe Warriors were seventh in the sprint medley relay.
Liverpool had its best finish in the boys event from Ny’Quez Madison, who in the long jump went 20 feeet ¼ inch, no one else able to break the 20-foot mark. Madison added a third in the high jump, clearing 5’8”.
The Warriors also finished fifth in the 4×800 relay in 10:07.09 thanks to Ian Sherlock, Sean Zhang, Brian Juston and Trenton Gallup, with the Warriors adding a fifth in the 4×400 in 4:18.09 and seventh in the 4×200.
Aiden Tornabene got a sixth-place triple jump of 33’11 3/4” as Maltrin Ramadini was eighth.Sajan Mishra was eighth in the 55 hurdles, but stepped up in the 4×200, helping Ramadini, Kemar McGlown and Kyle Schmalenberg finish third in 1:43.41. The Warriors were sixth in the sprint medley relay in 4:31.51.
