SYRACUSE – Only two points kept the Liverpool girls indoor track and field team from reaching the top of the standings during Saturday’s morning session of the George Constantino Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena.
The Warriors finished with 100 points, beating everyone except Baldwinsville’s winning total of 102 points. Liverpool’s boys also were second, though its 63.75 points were well back of B’ville, who had 120.75.
Taylor Page won for Liverpool in the girls 600-meter run, her time of one minute, 39.45 seconds beating out the 1:41.94 from the Bees’ Kamryn Barton.
Meanwhile, Kaitlyn Hotlaling, in 11:03.66, was a close second to South Jefferson’s Annabelle Renzi (11:01.14) in the 3,000-meter run, with eighth-grader Katie Martin third in 11:47.11.
Mia Wright ran to second in the 300-meter dash, her 43.82 seconds two-hundredths of a second behind the 43.80 from South Jefferson’s Kennady Billman. Wright also got third in the 55-meter dash in 7.68.
Maddie Devendorf had a second-place triple jump of 32 feet 10 ¼ inches, and in the long jump her 15’3” was second to the 15’9 1/2” from Pulaski’s Kylie Dye.
Addison Miles, Chloe Ryan, Addison Ziegler and Charlotte Warner were second (10:40.53) to B’ville (10:32.62) in the 4×800 relay. The Warriors were fifth in the 4×400 and 4×200 as Kailyn Barth was seventh and Jahnaysia Jordan eighth in the 1,000-meter run.
Layla Pearl Collins topped 8 feet in the pole vault, second to the 8’6” from B’ville’s Kelsey Dwyer. Paige Baker grabbed fourth in the 1,500-meter run in 5:28.31. Taima Tearney was fourth and Audrey Jenkins fifth in the high jump, each clearing 4’8”, while Olivia Kuol earned fifth in the weight throw with 27’4”.
As to the Liverpool boys, Ny’Quez Madison was victorious in the triple jump, his 43’1 1/4” more than a foot ahead of the field as teammate Maltrin Ramadani was seventh with 37’8 3/4”.
Adding to this, Madison also won the long jump, going 20’2 3/4” to hold off the 20’1 1/2” from Henninger’s Alex Acevedo and 20’ 1/2” from Acevedo’s teammate, Yor Yal.
On the oval, the Warriors won the 4×800 as Roman Murray, Josh Vang, Brady Ruediger and Ian Sherlock posted 8:58.32 to beat out B’ville’s second-place 9:04.32 by exactly six seconds.
Mason Dineen was fourth in the 3,200-meter run in 10:49.07, with Sherlock fourth and Nate Aurello sixth in the 1,000 and Ruediger sixth in the 600. Jackson Allen took fifth and Davis Farrell sixth in the 1,600 as Liverpool took seventh in the 4×400 as Kaden Bickford, topping 9 feet, finished fifth in the pole vault.
