SYRACUSE – Strong out of the gate in 2023, the Cazenovia boys indoor track and field team held up quite well against large-school competition in Saturday’s morning session of the John Arcaro Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena.
By meet’s end, the Lakers had 57 points, good for third place. Only three large schools – Baldwinsville, Jamesville-DeWitt and Fayetteville-Manlius – did better.
And no one would outrun Jaden Kaplan in the 600-meter event as the Cazenovia sophomore went one minute, 29.43 seconds to claim a thriller over Auburn’s Chris Howard (1:29.44) by one-hundredth of a second. Tristan Field-Bradley finished ninth in 1:37.60.
Kaplan also was sixth in the 55-meter dash in 7.08 seconds, an effort that Connor Frisbie topped in the 55-meter hurdles, where he finished fourth in 8.75, not far from Syracuse Academy of Science’s Amir Taylor’s winning 8.63.
Connor Frisbie nearly won the triple jump, his best attempt of 40 feet ¼ inch only trailing the 40’11 1/2” from Cortland’s Jack Phelan as Wyatt Scott was seventh with 35’2 1/2”. Branden McColm took sixth in the 1,600-meter run, going 4:59.44 to break the five-minute mark to go with an 11th in the 3,200-meter run.
Killian Blouin was third in the pole vault, clearing 9’6”, while Frisbie got to fifth place in the high jump by topping 5’4”. Blouin, Scott, Finn Worthington and Matt Tugaw were sixth in the 4×200 relay in 1:44.78. Will Austin, Caleb Gilmore, Chris Kelly and Robbie Dorus were seventh in the 4×800 relay in 10:02.12.
Ethan Burry had a ninth-place weight throw of 39’3” and Scott was ninth in the 300-meter dash in 39.74 seconds. Worthington was 12th in the long jump with 16’10 3/4” as Tugaw, Field-Bradley, Eli Revelle and Lucky Prior were eighth in the 4×400 relay in 4:20.11.
Chittenango was also in the morning session at the Arcaro meet, getting 29 points for ninth place in the girls meet as Jordan Wagner was third in the long jump, leaping 15’3 1/4” after an eighth (46.89 seconds) in the 300.
Sophia DiGennaro got seventh in the 600 in 1:49.49 as she helped Wagner, Abby Horning and Brooke Walters take fourth in the 4×400 in 4:36.99, the boys Bears finishing seventh in 4:13.11. Allie Bartoszek was seventh in the 55 hurdles in 10.11 seconds.
