SYRACUSE – From distance races to field events and lots in between, the Cicero-North Syracuse girls indoor track and field team fully took charge of Thursday’s Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division championships at SRC Arena.

Finishing with 188 points, the Northstars were well clear of Liverpool, who got 97 points for second place.

Posting a national top-10 time in the girls 1,000-meter run, C-NS’s Kate Putman went two minutes, 49.76 seconds to beat a strong 3:05.40 from the Warriors’ Taylor Page as Sophia Graham (3:15.01) was fourth. Later, Putman, Katy Harbold, Elianna Ballagh and Marissa Navarra won the 4×800 relay in 9:53.86.

Gabby Putman prevailed twice, going 10:11.95 for a national top-25 clocking in the 3,000-meter run as Kennedy Jones (11:24.02) finished fourth. Then Putman took the 600-meter run in 1:41.38 over teammate Katy Harbold’s 1:42.75, with Page getting third place (1:43.92) for Liverpool.

Marissa Doty stepped up in the sprints, winning the 55-meter dash in 7.57 seconds as Jaydin Mackey (7.74) was fifth. Then, in the 300-meter dash, Doty went 42.43, going 1-2 with Grace Murray’s 43.35.

To cap off her day, Doty joined Mackey, Murray and Hannah Boyle to go 1:49.07 and win the 4×200 relay over Liverpool’s second-place 1:50.52. C-NS also was second (4:22.27) in the 4×400 relay, with Liverpool third in 4:27.74.

Yet another 1-2 finish came in the long jump, Morgan Hayes going 15 feet 11 ¼ inches ahead of Jasmine Ayre’s 15’8” as Liverpool’s Beatrize Gurgol was third with 15’7 1/2”. Ayre would win the triple jump with 35’6” beating, among others, Kalli Congden (31’10 3/4”) in third place.

Eells, in the high jump, topped 5’1” for second place as Congden (4’8” was fourth. Marissa Navarra got third in the 1,500-meter run in 5:05.80, with Jasmine Ayre third (9.23 seconds) and Anna Eells fourth (9.30) in the 55 hurdles. Kaleigh Bosimenu topped 7’6” for third place in the pole vault.

Again leading Liverpool, Allie Cary won the shot put with a toss of 36’6 1/2” as C-NS’s Ava Schiff was third (28’7 1/4”), while in the weight throw Cary’s 36’10 3/4” beat out the Northstars’ Maria Sanfilippo, second with 35’5”.

Liverpool also had Addison Ziegler go 5:03.74 in the 1,500 to earn second place as Meghan Moyer finished third in the 3,000 in 11:22.20, with Kaitlyn Hotaling fifth.

The Warriors were third in the 4×800 as Mikayla Greene took fourth in the 55 sprint in 7.69 seconds, with Trinity Short fourth in the weight throw at 34’1 1/2” behind Cary, Taima Tearney fourth in the triple jump, Layla Pearl Collins fourth in the pole vault and Gurgol fifth in the high jump.

C-NS also was second in the boys SCAC Metro meet with 94 points behind Baldwinsville as Liverpool, with 54 points, took fourth place.

Davine Bennett, in the 55 sprint, edged West Genesee’s Dom Burris, though both finished in 6.67 seconds ahead of B’ville’s Brandon Levin (6.68) as Carlton Garnes was fourth in 6.90-.

In the 55 hurdles, Garnes prevailed in a quick 7.96 seconds and Camron Ingram was second in 8.31. Joe Main got second in the shot put with 40’1 1/4” as Colt Hiltz (38’6 3/4”) was fourth, Ethan Matthews taking fifth in the weight throw/

For Liverpool’s lone victories, Ny’Quez Madison, in the long jump, had a top leap of 22’5 1/2” to reach the state top 10 in that event, C-NS’s Trevon Walker third with 20’9 3/4”.

Madison then won the triple jump with 43’9 1/2” to edge the 43’3 1/4” from the Northstars’ Anthony Johnson as Walker finished fourth. And in the high jump, Madison’s 5’6” put him in second place, with C-NS’s Xander Provost fourth.

Running the 4×200 in 1:36.11, C-NS finished second as, in 3:52.47, it beat out Liverpool (3:58.51) for third place in the 4×400, adding a third in the 4×800 in 9:07.77 to the Warriors’ 9:10.25.

Sean Graves was fifth in the 300, with Jacob Klasen got fifth place in the 600, while Tyler Graham was sixth and Liam Adams seventh in the 1,000.
Liverpool also had Brady Ruediger take fourth and Jacob Makhlouf fifth in the 3,200-meter run, with Sajan Mishra fifth in the 55 sprint in 6.91 seconds and also fifth (9.28) in the 55 hurdles.

Josh Vang, in 4:43.72, beat out Michael Purvis (4:44.23) for fourth place in the 1,600-meter run ahead of C-NS teammates Dante Melfi and Ashton Murdock in the next two spots. Anthony Cerio was sixth in the weight throw.