SYRACUSE – Indoor track and field athletes were back at SRC Arena on Dec. 17 for the third meet of the season, the George Constantino Memorial Invitational, with plenty of individual success stories.
Westhill and Skaneateles were both part of the morning session, with the girls Warriors taking third place (72 points) and the Lakers fifth place (55 points) with three individual titles.
Kyla Palmer led the Lakers, her 300-meter dash time of 41.53 seconds ahead of Westhill’s Ashley Bolesh (43.65) in second. Palmer also was fifth in the 55-meter dash, just ahead of Westhill’s Allison Langham in sixth.
Alice Spaulding won for Skaneateles in the weight throw, heaving it 36 feet 8 ¾ inches to beat the field by more than two feet as teammate Mara Stanton was fifth with 30’3 3/4”. Spaulding also took third (31’11”) in the shot put.
Finally, in the high jump the Lakers’ Maddie Wright was the only competitor to clear 5’2”, one inch better than the 5’1” from East Syracuse Minoa’s Arianna Brennen.
Westhill’s Emma Murphy beat the field in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.45 seconds, with Kate Bendall (9.59) in third place. Murphy helped Westhill take third in the 4×200 relay in 1:55.60.
Mallie Alt was second and Ileanna Hopkins fourth in the pole vault, both clearing 7’6: as Eileen Mullen was fifth in the 3,000-meter run.
The West Genesee girls had Claire Griffin prevail in the 600-meter run in 1:45.68, more than a second ahead of the field. Grace McInerney prevailed in the long jump by going 15’2 1/2” to beat Bendall’s second-place 14’7 3/4” as Solvay had Rachel Willsey in fourth place.
The Wildcats were second in the 4×400 relay in 4:23.14, with Skaneateles third in 4:23.65 and Westhill in fifth place as WG took fourth in the girls 4×800 and Solvay was sixth in the girls 4×800. Peyton Long went 5:21.31 in the 1,500-meter run to finish fourth, while WG teammate Zoe Maupin was fifth in the 1,000.
WG was fifth in the boys morning session, ahead of Skaneateles in seventh and Westhill in 10th place as the Wildcats’ 4×400 relay team of Chris Moser, Anthony Edgar, Michael Gomes and Peyton Manipole prevailed in 3:38.59, beating out the 3:41.44 from runner-up Cicero-North Syracuse. Edgar added a sixth in the long jump.
Dom Burris won the triple jump by going 40’5 3/4” as no one else broke the 39-foot mark. Burris also got second in the 300 in 38.10 seconds as Skaneateles’ Max Paciorek (39.02) was third. Westhill’s lone win came from Carter Buckman, who cleared 10’6” to take the pole vault.
Paciorek added a second in the high jump, clearing 6’1” just behind the 6’2” from Henninger’s Yor Yal. Will Feeney got second place in the weight throw with 41’7”.
Freshman Dylan Frost, in 6.79 seconds, was runner-up to C-NS’s Divine Bennett (6.77) in the 55 sprint, while Kevin Moser was second in the 1,000 in 2:46.51, edged by Auburn’s Chris Howard (2:46.31) as Casey Comny took fourth in the 600-meter run.
After all this, the afternoon session of the Constantino meet saw Marcellus finish fourth with 75 points as Ethan Snyder, in 6.87 seconds, edged Liverpool’s Ny’Quez Madison
(6.88) to win the 55 sprint. Peter McCaffery won the pole vault, the only competitor to clear 10 feet.
Xander Szalach got second in the 300 in 39.74 seconds, with the Mustangs second in the 4×400 in 4:10.42 and third in the 4×800 in 9:36.56 and third in the 4×200 in 1:40.39.
Joe Streifler was fourth in the triple jump, going 38’8”. Ian Potter got fifth in the long jump, while Owen Alexander was fifth and Lukas Grieb sixth in the 55 hurdles. Scott Hall took fifth in the weight throw.
The Marcellus girls finished sixth. Sophia Maum took third in the 1,500 in 5:20.33 and helped the Mustangs take third in the 4×400 in 4:42.08.
Bailey Ellis threw the shot put 26’6 1/4” to finish third. Lorelai Riefler got fourth in the 300, with Sophia Bianchi sixth in the 55 hurdles and Bryn Goldsworthy seventh in the 300.
Jordan-Elbridge had Teagan Disinger finish sixth in the girls long jump and Alex Kunz take seventh in the boys 600.
