CICERO – A season where the Cazenovia boys track and field team did not lose a head-to-head meet and then claimed the Section III Class B-2 title will end with one more appearance.
Top Lakers athletes will go to Middletown High School next weekend for the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Division II championships after qualifying during the spring.
The last event to do so was the sectional state qualifier, held Thursday in hot (90-plus degrees) conditions at Cicero-North Syracuse’s Bragman Stadium.
During the 4×400 relay, Cazenovia’s quartet of Eliot Comeau, Dan Raymond, Tristan Field-Bradley and Jaden Kaplan went three minutes, 32.18 seconds, leading after every leg.
And it was Chittenango finishing second as Jacob Scheidelman, Landon Parks, Caleb LeBlanc and Michael Eiffe finished in 3:34.77, more than two seconds behind the Lakers.
But the Bears did get a win in the 110 hurdles when Joseph Lin, in 15.58 seconds, edged the 15.60 from Indian River’s Joseph Raap, earning a berth in the state meet.
Then LeBlanc prevailed in the 800-meter run, his time of 1:58.43 the only one under two minutes in the Division II field as Mexico’s Ethan Becker (2:00.89) was runner-up.
Branden McColm ran for Cazenovia and, in the 1,600-meter run, he finished third among Division II runners in 4:44.86 as Waterville’s Logan Baker (4:32.19) won there. Killian Blouin tied for ninth in the pole vault, clearing 10 feet 6 inches.
Connor Frisbie took his all-around talents to the pentathlon where he picked up 2,698 points, putting him seventh overall and sixth among Division II athletes.
Will Austin, J.D. Dolly, Caleb Gilmore and Jake Woolbert were 12th in the 4×800 relay in 8:59.13, with J.P. Hoak, Finn Worthington, Braden Carnahan and Charlie Compeau going 47.36 seconds in the 4×100 relay to finish 19th.
Chittenango’s girls had Hannah Wagner, Jordan Wagner, Sophia DiGennaro and Ella Wynkoop ninth in the 4×400 in 4:34.41, with Hannah Wagner fifth in the 400 hurdles in 1:10.90 and Jordan Wagner seventh (15’4 3/4”) in the triple jump.
