UTICA – Though it had to wait a couple of days, the Baldwinsville indoor track and field teams made up for it with the way it dominated at Monday’s third Mohawk Valley meet at Utica University’s Hutton Dome.
The boys Bees amassed 191.25 points for its third consecutive meet win, more than three times the total of runner-up Utica Proctor (65.5) as the B’ville girls got 98 points to pull away from Herkimer (65.33) and more than 20 other teams.
Nearly sweeping the girls relays, the Bees got started when Avamarie Davis, Clare Horan, Madison Kennedy and Mia Ponzi went four minutes, 22.51 seconds to take the 4×400 by more than 20 seconds over Central Valley Academy’s 4:43.40.
Horan, Sophia Cavalieri, Adrianna Orlando and Mary Sabatino were first in the 4×800 relay in 11:05.59 to Herkimer’s 11:25.33, while Olivia Bartlett, Rachel Becker, Kyra Virginia and Cassidy Primrose were third in the 4×200 relay in 2:00.17.
Sydney McKenney went 9.34 seconds to take the 55-meter hurdles, where no one else broke the 10-second mark., to go with a second (10 feet) in the pole vault ahead of Kelsey Dwyer (8’6”) in fourth place.
Kennedy was victorious in the 300-meter dash in 44.22 seconds, with Davis third in 45.41. Anaiya Johnson went 7.82 in the 55-meter dash, beating out Pozzi (7.90) in third place, with Johnson also eighth in the triple jump by going 29’4 ½”. Julianna Gingrich had a third-place shot put toss of 26’10”.
Yolanda Wei was third in the 3,000-meter run in 12:25.13 and ninth in the 1,500-meter run in 5:38.32. Horan, in 1:49.64, beat out Brianna Grosso (1:50.84) for sixth in the 600-meter run.
B’ville’s boys seized control in the first race at 1,600 meters, where Solomon Holden-Betts won in 4:25.2 and Ryan Wilson was second in 4:40 flat as Jeff Ragonese (4:55.53) was sixth.
Later in the meet, Holden-Betts, Ragonese, Wilson and Zach Arria tore though the 4×800 in 8:39.58, more than a minute ahead of anyone else and beginning a relay sweep.
Jack McAllister, Brandon Levin, Logan Hayes and Kyle Sheckler won the 4×400 in 3:40.61, well clear of Oriskany-Westmoreland’s second-place 3:51.94, and in the 4×200 Hayes, McAllister, Anthony Noda and Kaleb Paul went 1:35.13 to beat Proctor’s 1:38.05.
Jackson Creelman, in 8.40 seconds, went 1-2 with Logan Zapf (8.61) in the 55 hurdles as Jonah Offredi finished 10th. Zapf, in the triple jump, went 39’11 ¼”, just behind Dolgeville’s Jed Guenthner’s 40’ ½”.
In the 55 sprint, Levin won in 6.82 in a top-three sweep with Noda (6.92) and Paul (6.94), to go with Levin’s second-place long jump of 20 feet as Sheckler (17’9 ½”) was fifth.
In the 600, McAllister prevailed in 1:25.48, with Brayden Bolton (1:33.46) in fifth place. Noah Covert beat the field by more than 18 seconds in the 3,200-meter run in 10:11.34, while Jacob Guelli (10:49.49) was third.
One more win came in the pole vault, where Sheckler cleared 12 feet as no one else broke the 11-foot mark. Grayson Brady was fourth with 10 feet.
Gibson Boudov went 40’4 ½” for second place in the shot put as Dimiti Ioannidis (38’11”) was fifth. David Dobrolowski got fourth in the weight throw with 45’8 ½” as Boudov (40’5”) was seventh. Doug Clark took seventh in the 1,000-meter run in 3:02.17.
