SYRACUSE – At least according to the regular-season schedule,the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool track and field teams don’t really go head-to-head until May 3 at Bragman Stadium, a meet that also includes Fayetteville-Manlius.
But the two rivals opened their seasons in the same event and battled against one another during Tuesday’s Westhill Spring Break Invitational, and each had plenty to smile about by day’s end.
Kali Congden stood out for the Northstars, winning the high jump by clearing 5 feet as she also was second in the triple jump with 33’6 3/4”, with Jasmine Ayre fifth and Mackey sixth. Congden also was third in the long jump.
C-NS had Congden, Anna Ealls and Aaliyah McDonald also won the 3×100 shuttle hurdles relay in 49.59 seconds, with another Northstars side third and the Warriors fourth.
Marissa Navarra ran to second at 1,500 meters in 5:03.53, with Hannah Boyle second in the 800-meter run in 2:23.69. Grace Murray was second in the 200 hurdles in 30.10 seconds, with McDonald fourth in 31.46.
Jaydin Mackey made it to second place in the 200-meter dash in 26.91 seconds. Mackey, in 13.23 seconds, beat out Liverpools’ Mikayla Greene (13.37) for fifth in the 100-meter dash, with Greene adding a sixth in the 200 ahead of Sophia Jarosz in seventh place. C-NS got fifth place in the 4×400 relay in 4:43.60.
To lead Liverpool, Allie Cary won the shot put with a throw of 36’9” to edge Jamesville-DeWitt’s Hailey Webber (36’3”) and then, in the discus, heaved it 108’6” to top Auburn’s Rhian Crowley’s 101’10”. Maddie Devendorf had a second-place long jump of 16’6 1/4” as Congden (16’6) was right behind/
Addison Ziegler was third in the 2,000 steeplechase in 8:02.86 as Layla Pearl Collins cleared 7’6” for fourth place in the pole vault. Jailyn Parrotte was fourth, Meghan Moyer sixth and Kailyn Barth seventh in the 1,500.
Parrotte got sixth place in the 800, with Ziegler ninth and Moyer 10th as Beatrize Gurgol grabbed fifth in the high jump and sixth in the 200 hurdles.
On the boys side, C-NS had Joe Main win the shot put with a toss of 46’8”, more than two feet ahead of the field as Colt Hiltz was seventh.
James McConnell, Christian Kahrs, Jacob Klasen and Liam Adams earn second place in the 4×400 relay in 3:39.82. Zuriel Dickerson earned a fourth-place triple jump of 37’2 1/4”.
Jayceon McGrew ran the 100 in 11.54 seconds, second to West Genesee’s Kev Scott (11.41), with McGrew also third in the 200 in 23.62 as Christian Kahra was sixth. Camron Inrgram went 27.09 seconds in the 200 hurdles for another runner-up effort. P
Ingram, Xander Provost and Jordan Ballard completed a sweep of the 3×100 hurdles relays by winning in 51.69 seconds, no one else breaking the 54-second mark. Provost and McGrew tied for sixth in the high jump.
Liverpool’s Ny’Quez Madison won the long jump, going 21’4 1/2” to finish nearly two feet ahead of anyone else, including C-NS’s Trewvon Walker, who was third in 19’4 1/2”.
Michael Purvis took fifth in the 3,000 steeplechase in 10:35.62 and seventh in the 800, with Roman Murray ninth in the 1,600. Anthony Kelly took ninth place in the discus.
