BALDWINSVILLE – Again it proved true that no one would catch the Baldwinsville boys track and field team when Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division sides gathered Thursday for the league meet at Pelcher-Arcaro Stadium.
The Bees finished with 172 points, while Cicero-North Syracuse (103) edged West Genesee (98) for second place. And the B’ville girls would have a strong meet at home, too, getting 103.33 points to get third place behind C-NS and Liverpool.
Solomon Holden-Betts led the way with victories in three different distance races, capped by a 3,000-meter steeplechase where, in nine minutes, 24.48 seconds, beat the field by more than a minute, Keagan Hayes taking third in 10:46.15.
Earlier in the meet, Holden-Betts ran 1,600 meters in 4:21.41 to beat out WG’s Peter McMahon (4:25.52) as Noah Covert made his way to third place in 4:27.83. Then Holden-Betts won the 800-meter run in 1:57.69 over F-M’s Nolan McGinn (1:58.50), with Jeff Ragonese third in 2:00.10.
In the 4×800 relay, Ragonese, Logan Hayes, Jack McAllister, Jeff Ragonese and Paul Clark prevailed in 8:03.66, a strong time that was needed since Fayetteville-Manlius (8:05.16) was a close second.
From there, McAllister would take the 400-meter dash in 50.18 seconds, edging Hayes, who was second in 50.28, and in the 4×400 relay Hayes and McAllister, joined by Evan Smith and Zach Arria, pulled away to win in 3:25.93.
To win the pole vault, Kyle Sheckler had to clear 11 feet 9 inches to beat out the 11’6″ from C-NS’s Dan Henry, Owen Johnson getting fourth place by topping 10 feet.
David Dobrowolski was victorious in the discus, throwing it 136’4″ as Gibson Boudov (111’11”) was fourth. And one more title came from Nathan Glidden, who in the five-event pentathlon earned 2,287 points, easily pulling away from Liverpool’s Takeoni Ryan (1,748) for the top spot.
Daimel Fowler’s shot put toss of 43’3 1/4″ put him second, while Dobrowolski was third with 42 feet. In the 3,200-meter run, Ryan Wilson went 9:43.65, a close second to F-M’s Alex Martinez (9:40.42) as Covert was third in 10:05.58.
Logan Zapf, in 16.16 seconds, beat out Jackson Creelman (16.32) for fourth in the 110 hurdles, with Kaleb Paul fifth in the 100-meter dash in 11.47 seconds as Brandon Levin (11.62) was eighth. Griffin Killian topped 5’8″ in the high jump for sixth place as Paul was ninth.
Paul, Levin, Anthony Noda and Declan Pridmore were fourth in the 4×100 relay in 44.72 seconds before Paul took fourth (22.90) and Hayes fifth (22.94) in the 200. Jonah Offredi took sixth in the 400 hurdles in 1:02.58 and Zapf was seventh (18’3 1/2″) in the long jump and Wyatt Decker ninth (38′ 1/2″) in the triple jump.
As a highlight of the girls SCAC Metro meet, the Bees’ Sydney McKenney cleared 11 feet in the pole vault, two full feet ahead of anyone else, with Kate DeFio fourth by topping 8 feet. McKenney added a fourth-place finish in the 100 hurdles in 16.84 seconds and a fifth in the 400 hurdles in 1:14.39 as Rachel Becker was third in 1:10.38.
Yolanda Wei won, too, the B’ville freshman’s time of 8:14.54 in the 2,000 steeplechase enough to hold off Liverpool’s Charlotte Warner (8:16.69) to claim that race.
Madison Kennedy contended in the 400 sprint, her time of 1:00.16 only trailing the 56.95 seconds from C-NS star Kate Putman as Brianna Grosso was seventh in 1:05.02. Then, in the 200, Kennedy’s 27.27 was runner-up to the Northstars’ Jaydin Mackey (26.67).
Aaniya Johnson was third in the 100 sprint in 13.25 seconds as Emerson Clavijo (13.50) was fourth. Johnson, Clavijo, Ava Davis and Natalie Bartkowiak took second (51.28) behind Liverpool (50.65) in the 4×100 relay.
Kamryn Barton needed 4:55.99 to grab third place at 1,500 meters, adding a sixth in the 800 in 2:28.65 as Adrianna Orlando (2:39.38) was eighth. Nela Loftin, with a triple jump of 34’2 3/4″, beat out Erin Gregoire (33’9″) for third in the triple jump.
Leah Bahamonde threw the shot put 28’7 3/4″ for fourth place as Lauren Letourneau was fifth in the high jump, clearing 4’10”, and Paige Bohman got seventh in the discus (73’9″), ahead of Caley Gee (68 feet) in ninth place.
In the 4×400, Barton, Kennedy, Brianna Grosso and Ava Davis were third in 4:14 flat. Kennedy, Grosso, Ella Valentine and Clare Horan were fifth in the 4×800 relay in 10:24.24. Amanda Newcomb’s long jump of 14’6 3/4″ put her in fifth place as Letourneau was ninth.
Just 24 hours later, in the Cicero-North Syracuse Invitational, B’ville saw Clark win the boys 800 in 2:03.97 and Ragonese get second place in the 400 sprint in 51.80 seconds. Letourneau cleared 4’10” for second in the girls high jump as Barton went 1:01.23 in the 400 sprint for third place.
