SYRACUSE – Whether it was the quality of its own roster or the quality of the competition it faced, the Cazenovia boys indoor track and field team conquered all of it during Thursday night’s Jack Morse Kickoff Meet at SRC Arena.
Earning a total of 96 points, the Lakers went to the top spot ahead of two large-school powers, Baldwinsville (82.2) and Cicero-North Syracuse (81.2), not to mention Liverpool in fifth place.
Cazenovia set the night’s tone by winning the 4×400 relay. Jaden Kaplan, Tristan Field-Bradley, Eliot Comeau and Judah Ossont went three minutes, 46.36 seconds, beating out the 3:47.21 from runner-up C-NS.
Kaplan wasn’t done, going to the 600-meter run and, in 1:32.77, edging Oswego’s Daniel Dunn (1:33.14) for the top spot, with Field-Bradley getting third place in 1:34.48. And Connor Frisbie was victorious in the triple jump, going 41 feet 2 3/4 inches to beat out the 40’10” from Baldwinsville’s Logan Zapf, with Judah Ossont seventh at 35’11 3/4″.
Jake Woolbert finished third in the 1,600-meter run in a personal-best 4:56.04. The Lakers also won the team portion of the 300-meter dash, seeing Wyatt Scott finish third in 39.92 seconds and Field-Bradley fourth in 40.12. Scott added a fourth-place long jump of 19′ 1/2″ as Braden Carnahan (18’7 1/4″) was close behind.
Ossont was second and Connor Frisbie third in the high jump, each clearing 5’8″ as Comeau was fourth with 5’6″. Working together in the 4×800, Woolbert, Comeau, Caleb Gilmore and Owen Woodworth were third in 9:27.99. Ethan Burry got third place in the weight throw with a heave of 39’9 1/4″.
Frisbie added a sixth-place time of 8.65 seconds in the 55-meter hurdles and Charles Wilcox cleared 8’6″ in the pole vault to beat out Gilmore’s 8 feet. Comeau, in 3:01.50, was just behind Gilmore (3:01.48) in the 1,000-meter run. Carnahan went 7.23 in the 55-meter dash and Burry threw the shot put 34′ 3/4″ ahead of David Tugaw’s 31’10 1/4″.
A day earlier, in the first session of the Morse Kickoff Meet, Chittenango opened its season and saw the girls 4×400 relay team of Sophia DiGennaro, Laura Powers, Hannah Wagner and Ava McLean go 4:41.27, a close second to Homer’s winning 4:40.96.
Emily Judd joined McLean, Powers and DiGennaro for third place in the 4×800 relay in 11:31.81, while the boys Bears had Ethan Lavier, Gannon Catlin, Jacob Neupert and Manu Tipa take seventh in its 4×800 in 10:39.51.
Sean Eiffe got to fourth place in the boys shot put for Chittenango, tossing it 38’11 1/2″ as Owen Law was ninth (5’2″) in the high jump.
