CHITTENANGO – When they went head-to-head as part of a field of more than 20 sides in last Saturday’s rain-soaked Chittenango Invitational, the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool girls track and field teams separated themselves.
Ultimately the Northstars won it earning 102 points to the Warriors’ 92, with Anna Eells twice finishing on top.
Eells got started by winning the 100-meter hurdles in 14.57 seconds as Aaliyah McDonald grabbed second place in 15.25. Later, in the 400 hurdles McDonald was again second to a teammate, her 1:08.35 just behind Grace Murray’s winning 1:07.51.
Moving to the triple jump, Eells beat the field with 38 feet 2 ¼ inches more than two feet clear of the 36’1 3/4” from Onondaga’s Keahra Rodriguez as in the long jump Selena Moreno won with a leap of 16’10” to the 16’3” of Waterville’s Kadence Barton.
In the full-field mile Kennedy Jones was victorious in 5:40.84 edging Baldiwnsville’s Madelyn Donhauser (5:42.50). Cameron Sisk went 2:26.47 for second place in the 800-meter run as C-NS also was third in the 4×100 relay in 53.05 seconds with Liverpool fourth in 54.09.
Liverpool earned 16 points from the 100-meter dash when Nahla Battle-Crenshaw won it in 13.01 seconds to the 13.07 of Westhill’s Allison Langham and Maddie Devendorf was third in 13.16, with Murray fourth in 13.21.
Then the Warriors had a 1-2 sweep in the high jump, Taima Tearney clearing 4’10” to win it and Audrey Jenkins notching second place by topping 4’8”. Alainees Leon rose to second in the pole vault by topping 8 feet.
Mia Wright also won a sprint, her 59.36 seconds in the 400-meter dash topping the 1:01.84 of Todd in second place before going to the 4×400 and, joining Addison Ziegler, Taylor Page and Chloe Ryan, the Warriors took it in 4:13.40 nearly seven seconds clear of Cazenovia (4:13.20) as C-NS was third in 4:32.76.
Running in the girls Fleet Feet Mile Page finished fourth in 5:08.35 ahead of Kaitlyn Hotaling (5:12.44) in fifth place.
June Piorkowski made her way to third place in the five-event pentathlon picking up 1,991 points, with Maggie Sherlock fifth in the full-field mile, Ziegler fifth in the 800 and Emily Aiello fifth in the 400 hurdles. Eseroghene Uloho threw the shot put 30’1” for yet another fifth-place finish.
C-NS’s boys track team had 68 points in the Chittenango meet to only trail Christian Brothers Academy (92 points), while Liverpool gained fifth place with 46 points.
Camron Ingram tore to a time of 14.30 seconds in the 110 hurdles nearly a full second ahead of the field as Antwan Maxwell was fourth in 15.68. In the 800 Dante Melfi, in 2:02.01, went 1-2 with Dominic Petrera taking second in 2:03.17 and helping C-NS to second in the 4×800 relay in 8:52.73.
Nolan Zinsmeyer won, too, his 10:42.91 in the 3,000 steeplechase topping the field by more than four seconds as Dan Henry, in 52.59 seconds, edged Christian Kahrs (52.63) for third in the 400 sprint. In the featured Fleet Feet Mile Tyler Graham made it to seventh place in 4:38.53. The Northstars were fourth in the 4×400 in 3:44.49.
Liverpool had Brayden Smith go 58.16 seconds in the 400 hurdles second to CBA’s Braydon Johnson in 57.27. Josh Vang was second in the full-field mile posting 4:46.14 ahead of C-NS’s Joe Massett (4:54.17) in fourth place and helped Liverpool to third in the 4×800 in 9:01.32.
Jamal Lesperance was second in the pole vault clearing 9 feet. Taj Ryan did well in the pentathlon, finishing third with 2,534 points not far from the winning 2,671 by B’ville’s London Premo. Brian Juston went 11:00.21 in the steeplechase to finish fourth. Ade Adefashola cleared 5’8” in the high jump for fourth place and Ty’Kere Jones was sixth in the shot put.
