SYRACUSE – If 2024 is anything like the end of 2023 was, the Cazenovia boys indoor track and field team might be in for quite a special new year.
Winning for the third time in as many meets, the Lakers were victorious again in Saturday’s afternoon session of the George Constantino Memorial at SRC Arena.
Earning 97 points, Cazenovia easily conquered 18 challengers, including large schools like East Syracuse Minoa, who was second with 71.5 points as Auburn (61) edged Fayetteville-Manlius (60) for third place.
Connor Frisbie flourished in field events, capped by a winning triple jump of 42 feet 8 inches to beat the 41’2” from Cortland’s Jack Phelan.
Also, in the high jump Frisbie cleared 6 feet to finish second, with Eliot Comeau also topping 6 feet for third place and Judah Ossont fifth by topping 5’8”. In the long jump, Frisbie was fourth with 20’1 ¼” as Wyatt Scott (18’7 ¼”) grabbed sixth place.
Victorious in the 600-meter run, the Lakers’ Jaden Kaplan went one minute, 26.17 seconds to beat out the 1:27.30 from Auburn’s Chris Howard as Tristan Field-Bradley was fifth in 1:30.74.
Killian Blouin, by clearing 10’6”, was second to Central Square’s Austin Melvin (13 feet) in the pole vault as Caleb Gilmore was sixth with 8’6’.
In the 4×400 relay, Ossont, Braden Carnahan, Matt Tugaw and Owen Woodworth finished third in 3:57.45, with Kaplan, Gilmore, Eliot Comeau and Eddie Comeau going 8:55.95 in the 4×800 relay to finish third. In the 4×200, Carnahan, Tugaw, Scott and Finn Worthington went 1:41.66 to finish fourth.
Freshman Jake Woolbert finished fifth in the 3,200-meter run in 10:19.71. Gilmore took seventh (2:52.95) and Eliot Comeau ninth (2:54.47) in the 1,000-meter run. Woolbert, in 4:55.47, beat out Comeau (4:56.86) for ninth place in the 1,600-meter run.
Worthington got fourth in the 300-meter dash in a season-best 39.27 seconds ahead of Field-Bradley, who was fifth in 39.71. Ethan Burry had a fifth-place shot put toss of 42’11” as Scott went a personal-best 9.08 in the 55-meter hurdles to finish ninth.
Chittenango was also in the afternoon session of the Constantino meet as Sean Eiffe gave the boys Bears a third-place shot put throw of 40’5 ¼”.
Hannah Wagner, Laura Powers, Sophia DiGennaro and Abby Horning were seventh in the girls 4×400 relay in 4:39.37, with DiGennaro ninth in the 600 in 1:51.88 and Allie Bartoszek ninth in the triple jump.
