SYRACUSE – Each of the Baldwinsville indoor track and field teams would settle for third-place finishes amid strong fields for their respective portions of the Jack Morse Kickoff Meet Thursday night at SRC Arena.
The boys Bees had 81.2 poins, just behind runner-up Cicero-North Syracuse (82.2) but further back of winning Cazenovia (96). The B’ville girls earned 69.5 points to trail Cazenovia’s 89 as C-NS won big with 154 points.
Zach Arria got B’ville a win in the boys 1,000-meter run, going 2:47.30 to set a personal mark as teammates Will Cornell (eighth) and Angelo Sawyers (ninth) also got to the top 10.
Later, in the 4×800 relay, Ryan Wilson, Paul Clark, Adam Kozman and Noah Covert zoomed to a victory in 8:26.33, nearly half a minute ahead of C-NS’s 8:55.36. ,
In the triple jump, Logan Zapf’s 40’10” was a close second to Cazenovia’s Connor Frisbie (41’2 3/4”) , while Wyatt Decker got fourth place with 39’2 1/2”.
Decker, Rexton Kierkegaard, Nate Glidden and Cooper Christman went 3:48.46 for third place in the 4×400 relay, Jacob Guelli taking fourth in the 1,600 in 5:03.41 as Anthony Noda, Mason Cavallaro, Adam Aviles and Chris Zellar were third in 1:41.40.
Jackson Creelman, in 8.40 seconds, beat out Zapf (8.52) for fourth in the 55 hurdles. Gibson Boudov took fifth (40’6 1/2”) and Dimitri Ioannidis sixth (40’1”) in the shot put, Ioannidis adding a seventh in the weight throw.
Owen Johnson, clearing 9 feet, was sixth in the pole vault as Doug Clark tied for 10th. Noda was eighth and Cavallaro ninth in the 55-meter dash. Zellar was sixth in the long jump, going 18’11 1/2”, and Christman was 10th, while Clark took seventh in the 600-meter run.
Moving to the girls edition of the Morse meet, Kamyrn Barton’s 3:10.68 in the 1,000 only trailed the 3:09.25 from C-NS’s Sophia Graham, with Makayla Fowler getting to third place in the 1,500-meter run in 5:48.38.
Yolanda Wei was fourth (11:43.36) and Ella Defio fifth (11:46.73) in the 3,000-meter run, which B’ville won on the team side with Jacquelyn Gangemi taking eighth place.
In the 4×800, Wei, DeFio, Barton and Clare Horan finished second in 11:02.87. Mariah LeGrow, in the 600, finished fifth, two spots ahead of teammate Brianna Gross.
Avamarie Davis, Nicole Pelletier and Kelsey Dwyer helped Grosso to third in the 4×400 relay in 4:25.65, the Bees adding a fifth in the 4×200 in 2:00.05.
Dwyer, in the pole vault, cleared 7 feet to tie for third as DeFio was fifth. Emerson Clavijo and Anaiya Johnson were seventh and eighth, respectively, in the 55 sprint.
Elliot Boak threw the shot put 28’3 1/2” for fourth place, with Isabella Mitts seventh in the weight throw (29’9 3/4”) as Adelyn Ameigh-Coggen got ninth in the 55 hurdles.
