BALDWINSVILLE – Twice in a span of seven days, the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool girls track and field teams would battle with championships on the line.
It happened first at Thursday’s Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division meet at Baldwinsville, where the Northstars won with 178.33 points to Liverpool’s second-place 130.33.
Kalli Congden won three events for the C-NS girls. She toook the 100 hurdles in 15.33 seconds to Morgan Hayes’ second-place 15.45.
Then, in the high jump, clear 5 feet 5 inches to beat the field by four inches before a winning long jump of 17 feet as Hayes (16’3”) was again runner-up, though Hayes would win the triple jump with 36’10 1/4” to Anna Eells’ second-place 36’2 1/4”.
Running in the 400-meter dash, C-NS’s Kate Putman tore to victory in 56.95 seconds as no one else broke a minute. Hannah Boyle rolled to victory in the 800-meter run in 2:19.51 over the 2:23.11 from Liverpool’s Addison Ziegler.
A close 4×800 relay had Putman, Boyle, Cameron Sisk and Marissa Navarra go 9:33.88 to beat Fayetteville-Manlius’ 9:36.60 as Liverpool was fourth in 10:05.36.
In the 3,000-meter run, Putman was second in 11:03.17 and seventh-grader Kennedy Jones was third in 11:06.17, but Putman returned to join Boyle, Sisk and Grace Murry to win the 4×400 relay in 4:07.41, Liverpool fourth in 4:15.81.
Grace Murray dominated the 400 hurdles, her 1:04.91 nearly five seconds ahead of anyone else. Jaydin Mackey went 26.27 seconds to win the 200-meter dash, Aaliyah McDonald finishing fifth.
In a head-to-head pentathlon duel, C-NS’s Jasmine Ayre, with 1,759 points, beat the 1,612 from Liverpool’s Alannah Edwards.
Liverpool’s Allie Cary threw the shot put 36′ 1 1/2” to go 1-2 with teammate Janea Hamilton-Brown (31’7 1/4”) as, in the discus, Cary prevailed with 111’10”, well clear of anyone else as, again, Hamilton-Brown (88 feet) finished second and C-NS’s Julia Arnold was fourth.
Mikayla Greene gave Liverpool a win in the 100-meter dash, edging West Genesee’s Mya Rufus, 13.17 seconds to 13.18, as Mia Wright (13.58) was fifth. Greene, Wright, Sophia Jarosz and Heaven Levere paired up to win the 4×100 relay in 50.65 seconds, with C-NS (52.16) third.
Taylor Page earned second place in the 1,500-meter run in 4:54.68, with Navarra fifth as Charlotte Warner got second in the 2,000 steeplechase in 8:16.69, just behind the 8:14.54 from B’ville’s Yoland Wei.
Layla Pearl Collins, clearing 9 feet, beat C-NS’s Kaleigh Bosimenu (8 feet) for second in the pole vault. Lamyya Hudson took third and Maddie Devendorf fourth in the long jump as Devendorf was fourth in the 200, Audrey Jenkins fourth in the high jump (5’1”) and Meghan Moyer took fifth place in the 3,000.
Meanwhile, the C-NS boys would finish second to host B’ville in the boys SCAC Metro meet, getting 103 points as Liverpool (53 points) was fifth.
Camron Ingram won the 110 hurdles, holding off Corcoran’s Tawakal Omar, 15.38 seconds to 15.40 as Jordan Ballard (16.00) was third. Then Sean Graves took the 400 hurdles in 58.73, beating Nottingham’s Lamar Sparks (59.83), with Ballard finishing fifth.
Joe Main’s shot put 45’5” proved best by more than two feet as he added a third in the discus with 125’5”. Henry cleared 11’6” in the pole vault, a close second to the 11’9” from B’ville’s Kyle Sheckler.
James McConnell, in 52.45 seconds, beat out Dan Henry (52.84) for third in the 400 sprint before they took second in the 4×400 in 3:30.38 with Graves and Dante Melfi.
Melfi took fourth in the 1,600-meter run in 4:32.77 as Tyler Graham was fourth and Liam Adams fifth in the 800. C-NS was third in the 4×100 relay in 44.42 seconds, Liverpool (44.95) fifth.
Madison also went 20’6 1/2” in the long jump for second place, the Northstars’ Trevon Walker finishing fourth, and was fifth in the high jump, clearing 5’8” as Michael Purvis earned second place in the 3,000 steeplechase in 10:32.44.
Takeoni Ryan was second in the pentathlon with 1,748 points, edging C-NS’s Xander Provost (1,741) in third, while Liverpool took third in the 4×800 in 8:36.57 to the Northstars’ 8:42.04 in fourth.
Jacob Makhlouf earned fourth place in the 3,200-meter run in 10:14.55. Roman Murray got fifth in the 1,600 and Vincent McBride was sixth in the 100 sprint in 11.51 seconds and sixth in the 200 in 23.46.
