SYRACUSE – Just a few miles from home, the Westhill indoor track and field teams found things quite comfortable at SRC Arena Wednesday as it claimed both the girls and boys Section III Class B-1 championships.
On the girls side, the Warriors amassed 171 points to lap the field as Homer (49 points) was well back in second. The Westhill boys earned 111 points to beat the 87 from runner-up Institute of Technology Central.
Kate Bendall beat the field in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.07 seconds, with Emma Murphy second in 9.23, Ava Baty fifth and Mallie Alt sixth, amounting to 21 team points.
Then Bendall won the long jump with 16 feet 5 ½ inches, with Allison Langham (15’3”) grabbing fourth place. And with a triple jump of 33’10 1/4”, Bendall led top-four sweep, Isabel Leonardo second with 33’1” ahead of Emma Murphy’s 33′ 1/4” and Ava Baty’s 32’9 1/2”.
Ashley Bolesh began her big night by taking the 600-meter run in a quick 1:37.42 (putting her in the national top 50) as Kennedy Rose was second in 1:47.22.
In the 300-meter dash, Bolesh prevailed in 42.74 seconds, with Emma DeSanto fourth in 47.52, and in the 4×200 relay Bolesh, Rose, Langham and Sabine Napolitano went 1:52.98 for yet another victory.
Clearing 8 feet, Mary Kate Rewakowski won the pole vault over Alt, who topped 7’6” in second place as Ileanna Hopkins was fifth and Ella Grosso sixth. Isabel Leonardo won the high jump by clearing a personal-best 4’8”, while Hopkins was sixth and Abby Cottrell fifth, topping 4’6′.
Allison Langham was second in the 55-meter dash in 7.69 seconds to the 7.66 from ITC’s Coralis Diaz. Emma Marshall earned a third-place weight throw of 28’8 3/4”, a new personal mark.
Stella Napolitano got fourth place in the 3,000-meter run, with Ellie Thornton fourth and Eileen Mullen fifth in the 1,500 as the Warriors were fourth in the 4×400 and 4×800 relays.
To get things going for Westhill’s boys, Bohdan Centore, in a personal-best 10:46.20, led a 1-2-3 in the 3,000-meter run ahead of Drew O’Reilly (10:49.10) and Edward Popp (10:57.40).
O’Reilly went on to win the 1,000-meter run in 2:44.62 over Mexico’s Ethan Becker (2:46.52) and was second in the 1,600 in 4:47.55 as Centore was third (4:52.76) and Popp sixth.
Centore and Popp, paired with Bryce Burdick and Julian Curtis, were victorious in the 4×800 relay in 9:12.31, nearly half a minute ahead of the field.
Carter Buckman prevailed in the pole vault, topping 10’6” as Riley Sheridan was sixth. Anthony Osorio’s triple jump of 39’11 1/4” set a personal mark and put him in third place as Joe Pirong made fifth place in the shot put, heaving it 43’7”, also a new personal best.
Owen Mulholland took second in the 600 in 1:29.21, with Curtis fifth and Buckman sixth as Mulholland added a third in the 300 in 38.74 seconds.
Josh Dabbiero took fifth in the 55 hurdles and helped Mulholland, Gage Forian and Anthony Osorio finish second in the 4×200 in 1:40.15 Westhill also took third in the 4×400 in 3:51.30.
