SYRACUSE – In the meet where one of area high school track and field’s true legends was honored, Baldwinsville’s boys and girls indoor track sides offered the best tribute possible.
Both of the Bees’ sides were victorious in Thursday’s second session of the Oscar B. Jensen Memorial Relays, the boys earning 114 points to nearly lap the other 17 teams in the field and the girls, with 91 points, holding off Jamesville-DeWitt (81) for the top spot.
B’ville’s girls won from the outset. In the 4×200, Anaiya Johnson, Amerie Williams, Brianna Peters and Emerson Clavijo went one minute, 51.63 seconds to beat out J-D’s second-place 1:53.62 by nearly two full seconds.
Kamryn Barton followed up in the 1,500-meter run by going 4:57.16 as no one else broke the five-minute mark and freshman Isabella Arria (5:41.96) finished eighth.
Ella DeFio added another title, running 3,000 meters in 11:22.16 and then seeing Yolanda Wei secure another 1-2 B’ville finish when she crossed the line in 12:04.17, with Jaquelyn Gangemi seventh in 12:45.05.
The Bees then clinched the meet title when, in the 4×400, Barton, paired with Mariah LeGrow, Kelsey Dwyer and Brianna Grosso, finished in 4:21.63, pulling away from runner-up Auburn (4:27.35) and the field.
Dwyer had a win of her own in the pole vault, the only competitor to clear 9 feet as Kate DeFio was fifth, topping 7 feet. Julianna Gingrich threw the shot put 33’4 3/4”, a new personal mark, for third place.
Avamarie Davis finished fourth in the 300 in 46.14 seconds. Mariah LeGrow was seventh in the 55 hurdles in 10.12, with Clare Horan 11th and Makayla Fowler 13th in the 600. Isabella Mitts was seventh in the weight throw with 27’5 1/4”.
Going 1-2 in the 55-meter hurdles, the boys Bees had Logan Zapf prevail in 8.29 seconds, beating out Jackson Creelman’s second-place 8.43.
Zapf would also get second place in the long jump, going 20’4”, two inches behind the 20’6” from Henninger’s Alex Acevedo as Declan Pridmore was fifth with 18’6” to go with a sixth (38’2”) in the triple jump.
Doug Clark won the pole vault by topping 9’6” with fewer misses than Skaneateles’ Ryan McCrone as Owen Johnson was third, topping 9 feet. Paul Clark ran 1,600 meters in a personal-best 4:35.68 to edge CBA’s Joe McMahon (4:36.04) for the title, with Scott McDonald 11th in 5:22.13.
Doug Clark, Zach Arria, Wyatt Decker and Cooper Christman were second in the 4×400 relay in 3:47.59. Gibson Boudov had a second-place shot put throw of 43’5” as Dimiri Ioannidis was fifth with 41’6 1/4”.
Ryan Wilson ran to third in the 3,200-meter run in 9:53.55 as Noah Covert (10:01.32) and Adam Kozman (10:06.39) rounded out the top five.
Pridmore, Anthony Noda, Amari Stephens and Mason Cavallaro were fifth in the 4×200 relay in 1:40.09. Will Cornell, in 1:33.36, beat out Nathan Glidden (1:34.69) for fifth in the 600-meter run. Glidden added a fifth-place high jump of 5’4” as Chris Zellar got ninth in the 300-meter dash and Alex Aviles was 10th in the high jump.
