ROCHESTER – Against more than 50 other girls indoor track and field teams in last Saturday’s Jack Reed High School Showcase in Rochester Cicero-North Syracuse roared to a comfortable victory with Liverpool right behind them.
The Northstars’ total of 91 points was nearly double that of any other team, Liverpool’s 48.5 points putting it in second place as the C-NS boys side also did well, earning 37 points for third place behind Penfield and Batavia.
Anna Eells stood out with 28 points gained through a pair of individual titles in field events. Eells cleared 5 feet 2 inches in the high jump as no one else topped 5 feet and, in the triple jump, she won with 39’ 1/2” as no one else even reached 37 feet.
Also, Eells nearly won the 55-meter hurdles, her 8.30 seconds only one-hundredth of a second behind the 8.29 of Corning’s Cella McLaughlin which was a meet record. Aaliyah McDonald was fourth in the hurdles 8.60 as Jaydin Mackey took sixth (7.38) in the 55-meter dash.
Sophia Graham gave C-NS another title in the 600-meter run going 1:36.89 exactly two seconds ahead of Irondequoit’s Aubrey Smith (1:38.89) as Evelyn Maglente finsihed ninth. Cameron Sisk (3:04.78) beat out Gabby Putman (3:05.62) for fifth in the 1,000-meter run.
Then the Northstars clinched it with two relay titles. Maglente, Sisk, Putman and Katy Harbold went 9:45.88 to win the 4×800 as Liverpool was third in 10:05.54, while in the 4×400 Mackey, Graham, Stephanie Todd and Sophia Murray prevailed in 4:02.74 nearly three full seconds ahead of Webster Schroeder’s 4:05.73.
Liverpool did its best in the sprints, starting when Mia Wright, Maddie Devendorf, Mikayla Greene and Nahla Battle-Crenshaw set a meet record in the 4×200 relay, its 1:43.90 beating out the 1:44.43 from C-NS’s quartet of Mackey, McDonald, Murray and Todd.
Wright tore to victory in the 300-meter dash and set another meet record winning in 40.35 seconds as Greene (41.92) was sixth, while Taylor Page was victorious at 1,500 meters in 4:47.35, beating out the 4:50 flat put up by the Northstars’ Katy Harbold.
Kaitlyn Hotaling took fourth in the 1,500-meter run in 10:34.33, where C-NS had Mya Patti seventh and Kennedy Jones ninth. Devendorf was eight in the long jump going 16’8 1/4”.
A victory for the C-NS boys came from Camron Ingram, who set two meet records in the 55-meter hurdles, first going 7.45 seconds to qualify for the final and then winning it in 7.33, nearly half a second clear of the field.
Tyler Graham made it a Northstars sweep in the 600 when he posted 1:24.27 to beat out, among other challengers, teammate Dante Melfi finishing third in 1:25.99.
C-NS also was fourth in the 4×200 in 1:33.89 and fourth in the 4×800 in 8:43.19 where Liverpool (8:46.92) took sixth place. Matt Freeman finished eighth in the triple jump with 40’11 1/2” as Liverpool had Ade Adefashola finish seventh in the high jump by clearing 5’10”.