CENTRAL NEW YORK – As it does each spring, the Chittenango track and field teams welcomed top Section III athletes to Bear Country for last Saturday’s invitational meet with its featured Fleet Feet Mile.
This took place a day after Cazenovia was part of the Onondaga Central Invitational, its boys team earning 44 points to tie Henninger and Oswego for third place, trailing only Watertown and Tully.
Back on Wednesday, Cazenovia had blown out Homer 107-34 at Buckley-Volo Field, with Branden McColm sweeping all three distance races, taking the 800 in 2:15.5, the 1,600 in 5:02.8 and the 3,200 in 10:59.5.
Connor Frisbie had a top triple jump of 40 feet 2 inches to go with a winning long jump of 19 feet and a time of 16.8 seconds in the 110 high hurdles.
Wins also came from Jed Olkowski (shot put, 36’5”), Miles Weiler (discus, 98’2”), Killian Blouin (pole vault, 10 feet), J.P. Hoak (100-meter dash, 12.0 seconds), Dan Raymond (400-meter dash, 53.5) and Jaden Kaplan (200-meter dash, 23.5).
Now, at Onondaga, McColm needed 2:10.47 to beat out Canastota’s Ryan Sanderson (2:11.44) and win the 800, while also taking second in the 3,200 in 10:17.80 as Will Austin was fourth in the 1,600 in 4:53.65.
Kaplan needed 51.60 seconds to storm to third in the 400 sprint as Eliot Comeau (54.41) was eighth, but Kaplan would help McColm, Austin and Caleb Gilmore win the 4×800 relay in 8:42.14, more than 14 seconds ahead of the field. Comeau took fifth in the high jump, clearing 5’6” as Finn Worthington (5’4”) tied for ninth.
Blouin cleared 9’6” for fifth place and Gillmore was seventh (8’6”) in the pole vault. Frisbie was eighth in the 110 high hurdles in 17.47 seconds as Austin, Judah Ossont, Owen Woodworth and Tristian Field-Bradley got fifth in the 4×400 relay in 3:52.41.
Three days earlier, Chittenango went head-to-head with Institute of Technology Centra. After defeats to Cazenovia a week earlier, the Bears would sweep the Eagles 81-51 on the girls side and 79-61 on the boys side.
In the girls meet, Laura Powers, Jordan Wagner and Ally Bartoszek won two events apiece. Powers ran 1,500 meters in 5:51.2 and added a 3,000-meter title in 12:02.9.
Wagner went from beating the field in the 200 in 28.7 seconds to a top long jump of 15′ 1/2”, while Bartoszek was first in the 100 hurdles in 18.1 and took the triple jump with 29’3”. Sophia DiGennaro went 1:07 flat in the 400 sprint as Evelyn Wynkoop won the 800 in 2:50.4.
Chittenango’s boys had Dan Mahle finish first in the 1,600 in 5:21 flat and the 3,200 in 11:49.4 as Gavin Roach ran the 800 in 2:26.3 to complete a Bears distance sweep.
Joseph Lin went 19’5” in the long jump, with Rodger Mulholland heaving the discus 110’8” and Trevor Cole clearing 8’6” in the pole vault as Joshua Lin beat the field in the 110 hurdles in 15.8 seconds.
During the Chittenango Invitational, the Bears would see Joseph Lin nearly win the 110 hurdles, his 15.78 seconds only topped by the 15.37 from Cicero-North Syracuse’s Camron Ingram. Wagner got second in the girls long jump with 15’9 1/2” behind the 16’9 1/2” from West Canada’s Hallie Fehlhaber.
Lin also was third in the 400 hurdles in 1:00.97 and fifth in the long jump (19’9 1/2”) as the Bears took third in the 4×400 relay in 3:40.16. Landon Parks finished seventh in the 400 sprint in 53.49 seconds and Chittenango was seventh in the boys and girls 4×800.
