BALDWINSVILLE – Each of the West Genesee track and field teams would find some success against all of the competition in the Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division during Thursday’s league meet at Baldwinsville.
On the boys side, the Wildcats finished with 88 points, trailing only host B’ville and Cicero-North Syracuse, while WG’s girls got 39 points for fifth place as C-NS took the top spot.
Kev Scott got WG going in the sprints, his time of 11.16 seconds beating the field in the 100-meter dash as Dom Burris was fourth in 11.40. Later, in the 200-meter dash, Scott, in 22.10 seconds, won as Chris Moser was second in 22.49.
Then Scott, Burris, Moser and Dylan Frost tore to victory in the 4×100 relay in 42.92 seconds, more than a full second ahead of Corcoran’s 44.16 as Burris was third in the long jump, gong 20 feet 2 ¼ inches as he was fourth (40′ 1/4”) behind third-place teammate Hayden Rothenberg (40’7”) in the triple jump.
Logan Scott chimed in by getting third in the 400 hurdles in 1:00.06. WG the Wildcats were also fourth in the 4×400 relay in 3:35.22 and fifth in the 4×800 relay in 10:06.31.
Peter McMahon got a second-place time of 4:25.52 in the 1,600-meter run behind B’ville’s Solomon Holden-Betts (4:21.41), who also managed to win the 800 and 3,000 steeplechase.
Landon Derbyshire threw the shot put 36′ 1/4” for fifth place Connor Moore was fourth and Sean Moser fifth in the 3,000 steeplechase as Dillon Holzwarth was sixth in the 800-meter run and Kevin Moser sixth in the 3,200-meter run.
Mya Rufus almost won the girls 100 sprint, her 13.18 seconds one-hundredth of a second behind the 13.17 from Liverpool’s Mikayla Greene, while Chloe Fietze, Sarah Fettig, Andrea Conklin and Claire Griffin were second (4:11.58) to C-NS (4:07.41) in the 4×400 relay.
Fietze, Griffin, Conklin and Zoe Maupin, Cwere third in the 4×800 in 9:44.87, with the Wildcats fifth in the 4×100 in 54.21 seconds as Thalia Petrie went 8:31.06 in the 2,000 steeplechase for third place.
Maupin took fourth in the 3,000-meter run in 11:13.49 a. Conklin took fifth in the 400-meter dash in 1:04.70 and Erin Fortune was fifth (2:28.50) in the 800. Ellen Freeman was sixth and Annissa Lee seventh in the shot put, with Riley Flynn seventh in the triple jump and Mikenna Komuda seventh in the pole vault.
A day earlier, Jordan-Elbridge hosted the Onondaga High School League Patriot division championships, with Bishop Ludden also in the field.
J-E’s Teagan Disinger was third in the 100 hurdles in 18.55 seconds, with Ludden’s Alexi Sheen sixth to go with a fourth in the 400 hurdles (1:15.56).
The Eagles’ Emily Riley was fifth in the 100 sprint in 13.55 and Kyra Dominick sixth in the 200. Ludden’s 4×100 relay team made it to fourth place in 57.63 and the 4×400 side was also fourth (4:39.36), with Ally Kerwin sixth in the 400 sprint.
For the J-E boys, Peyton Bates went 10:47.75 in the 3,200 for fourth place. David Lawless took fifth in the 100 sprint in 11.88 seconds and sixth in the 400 in 55.23.
