CENTRAL NEW YORK – Going to separate meets, the Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse indoor track and field teams found more prosperous results.
Liverpool was part of ,last Saturday’s Fred Kirschenheiter Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena, where the girls Warriors, with 131 points, pulled away from runner-up Cazenovia (95.5) as the boys got 69.67 points and finished third behind West Genesee and Fayetteville-Manlius.
Many of the girls Warriors’ wins came from field events, including Allie Cary’s throwing sweep as she went 34 feet 7 inches in the shot put and 38’8 1/2” in the weight throw, with Trinity Howard fourth in both events.
Also, Beatrize Gurgol prevailed in the long jump, going 15’2 1/2” as Taima Tearney finished fifth, whie Layla Pearl Collins won the pole vault when she cleared 7’6” with fewer misses than Cazenovia’s Caitlyn Smithers and Faith Wheeler.
Taylor Page went a season-beat five minutes, 4.35 seconds to beat the field in the 1,500-meter run as Meghan Moyer finished seventh. Page paired with Kailyn Barth, Kaitlyn Hotaling and Addison Ziegler to win the 4×800 relay in 10:35.97.
Moyer was also fourth in the 3,000-meter run, with Hotaling sixth and Barth seventh as Addison Miles took fifth in the 1,000-meter run.
Sophia Jarosz, Caitlyn Guilfoil, Ashlyn Brown and Maddie Devendorf were second (1:54.26) to Cazenovia (1:53.16) in a close 4×200 relay. Jarosz, Ashlyn Brown, Jailyn Parrotte and Lamyya Hudson were second in the 4×400 relay in 4:25.18, again with Cazenovia (4:20.30) in front. Parrotte also was seventh in the high jump.
Ziegler went 1:47.62 for fourth place in the 600-meter run. Gurgol took fifth in the 55-meter hurdles as Devendorf was fifth in the 300-meter dash and Jarosz got sixth place in the 55-meter dash.
On the boys side, Liverpool’s Jacob Makhlouf went 10:31.12 at 3,200 meters to finish second as Brady Ruediger was fourth in 10:31.12. Josh Vang, in 4:47.17, beat out Michael Purvis (4:52.09) for third in the 1,600-meter run.
Anthony Cerio got fourth in the shot put with 37’7 1/4” and fourth in the weight throw with 39’10”, with Nick Cosme seventh. Shawmeer Bradwell grabbed fifth place in the 55 sprint.
The Warriors take second in the 4×200 in 1:38.08/ Liverpool was fifth in the 4×400 as Austin Ziegler was seventh in the 600, Ny’Quez Madison seventh in the 55 hurdles and J.T. Goss eighth in the 1,000. Evan Slater and Kaden Bickford tied for eighth in the high jump.
Before this, the C-NS boys were victorious in last Thursday’s Art McKinnon Meet at Utica University, where with 69.5 points it outlasted Utica Proctor (57 points) for the top spot.
Davine Bennett led the Northstars, winning the 55 sprint in 6.65 seconds as he also helped Trevon Walker, Carlton Garnes and Anthony Johnson take the 4×200 relay in 1:35.91 to Syracuse ITC’s second-place 1:36.03.
Johnson had a second-place triple jump of 40’4 1/2” as Garnes was third with 40’3” and Marcus Reed sixth with 38’9 1/2”. Garnes got fifth and Walker sixth in the long jump. Joe Main was fourth in the shot put, heaving it 39’2 1/2”.
Walker also was fifth and Xander Provost sixth in the 55-meter hurdles, with Christian Kahrs fifth in the 300-meter dash. The Northstars also finished fifth in the 4×400 relayand fifth in the 4×800
The C-NS girls were third with 63.5 points behind Rome Free Academy (77) and East Syracuse Minoa (65) as Kalli Congden was victorious in the 55 hurdles in 9.16 seconds, with Aaliyah McDonald (9.58) third and Gianna Boland (9.76) in fourth place.
Jasmine Ayre had a third-place long jump of 15’11”, a new personal mark, with Ava Schiff fifth in the shot put and sixth in the weight throw. Kaleigh Bosimenu cleared 7’6” for seventh place in the pole vault.
Elizabeth Smith went 5:20 flat in the 1,500-meter run to finish fourth. Elianna Balagh was sixth in the 1,000 and Callie Bednarski seventh in the 600. C-NS also was fourth in the 4×800 in 11:06.24 and sixth in the 4×400.
