SYRACUSE – Having a large and talented roster certainly helps the Cicero-North Syracuse girls indoor track and field team, but it’s what they do that really makes the Northstars a special unit.
Whether it’s sprints, distance races or field events, C-NS mastered them and, by doing so, rolled to the Section III Class AA championship Thursday night at SRC Arena, earning 165 points as Liverpool finished second with 65.5 points.
Marissa Doty swept the sprints for the Northstars. First, Doty was victorious in the 55-meter dash, edging West Genesee’s Molly Doran, 7.50 seconds to 7.51, with Jaydin Mackey fourth in 7.74, the same time as Liverpool’s Mikayla Greene as her teammate, Sophia Jarosz (7.77), was seventh.
Then, in the 300-meter dash, Doty prevailed in 42.15 seconds, a 1-2 effort with teammate Grace Murray (43.23) as the Warriors got Jarosz into third place in 43.67. and in the 4×200 relay, Doty, paired with Mackey, Murray and Kate Putman, beat the field in 1:46.99.
Kate Putman went 2:57.87 in a terrific 1,000-meter run to hold off the challenge of Liverpool’s Taylor Page, who in 2:59.02 also broke the three-minute mark as Katy Harbold (3:07.19) was fourth.
In the 4×800 relay, Katy Harbold, Hannah Boyle, Elliana Ballagh and Sophia Graham won in 10:02.64, just beating out F-M’s 10:04.41 as Liverpool (10:15.46) was fourth.
C-NS also got two wins in field events. Morgan Hayes’ long jump of 17 feet 1 1/4 inches edged the 17-foot leap by Rome Free Academy’s Imani Pugh as Kalli Congden (16’4″) was fourth, while Jasmine Ayre went 35’1″ in the triple jump to edge Hayes’ 34’8″ as Congden (33’8″) was fourth and Gianna Boland (32’7″) sixth.
Gabby Putman took second in the 3,000-meter run in 10:13.40, with Marissa Navarra fourth in 10:54.16, and in the 1,500-meter run Putman’s 4:52.36 trailed a national top-25 4:39.49 from Fayetteville-Manlius’ Izzie Sullivan as Navarra finished sixth.
Boyle, Callie Bednarski, Cameron Sisk and Grace Murray went 4:16.71 in the 4×400 relay for second place as Liverpool’s quartet of Ashlyn Brown, Lamyya Hudson, Sophie Hoy and Jailyn Parrotte was third in 4:25.35.
Graham got second in the 600-meter run in 1:42.32, with Boyle third in 1:46.16. Hayes went 8.79 seconds in the 55 hurdles for second place as Jasmine Ayre (8.98) was fourth and Aaliyah McDonald (9.23) sixth. Kaleigh Bosimenu cleared 8 feet for fourth place in the pole vault.
Again leading Liverpool, Allie Cary won the shot put, heaving it 36’1″ to beat the field by more than three feet, including C-NS’s Ava Schiff in sixth place, before a weight throw where Cary’s 38’8 1/2″ beat Trinity Howard’s second-place 36’10”, with Deidre Williams (34’3 1/2″) beating the Northstars’ Maria Sanfilippo (33’4 1/2″) for fifth place.
Aside from that, the Warriors also had Jarosz, Greene, Caitlyn Guilfoil and Maddie Devendorf take third in the 4×200 in 1:50.52. Layla Pearl Collins finished sixth in the pole vault, with Beatrize Gurgol sixth in the high jump by topping 4’8″ and also sixth in the long jump with 15’1″, half an inch ahead of Devendorf.
C-NS also had a strong showing in the boys sectional Class AA meet, getting 77 points to edge Fayetteville-Manlius (75) for third place, though both were well back of Baldwinsville’s winning total of 171 points.
Nearly a quarter of the Northstars’ points came from a 1-2 sweep of the 55 hurdles, Carlton Garnes going 7.91 seconds to get away from the 8.33 of Camron Ingram as Xander Provost (8.66) was seventh.
In the 4×400, the Northstars had Dan Henry, Liam Adams, Sean Graves and Jacob Klasen second in 3:39.74 as Davine Bennett got second in the 55 sprint in 6.65 seconds, one-hundredth of a second behind the 6.64 from Utica Proctor’s Hector Perez.
Bennett, Christian Kahrs, Jayceon McGrew and Trevon Walker were second in the 4×200 in 1:35.85, while Joe Main, in the shot put, threw it 43’5 1/2″, second to Auburn star Dustin Swartwood’s 48’8 3/4″.
Garnes had a third-place triple jump of 40 feet, with teammates Anthony Johnson (39’8 3/4″) and Walker (39’4 1/4″) in the next two spots as Jackson Petzoldt, clearing 9’6″, finished fifth in the pole vault.
Liverpool finished sixth in the boys AA Meet, its lone win from Ny’Quez Madison, whose long jump of 22’4″ beat the 21’9 1/2″ put up by Walker for C-NS and the 21’4″ From West Genesee’s Dom Burris.
Roman Murray went a personal-best 2:42.51 in the 1,000-meter run to finish third, while Madison topped 5’8″ in the high jump for third place, where Provost (5’6″) was sixth. Madison also had a sixth-place triple jump of 39’3 1/2″.
Brady Ruediger was fifth in the 3,200-meter run in 10:16.36, with the Warriors third in the 4×800 in 8:40.50 to beat C-NS’s fourth-place 8:44.01 as Liverpool was sixth in the 4×400 in 3:52.47. Anthony Cerio had a sixth-place weight throw of 41’8 1/4″, with the Northstars’ Ethan Matthews (39’11 1/2″) seventh.
