CENTRAL NEW YORK – One big part of the Chittenango spring sports season is having its track and field teams welcome many of the area’s top athletes to Bear Country to compete in the Chittenango Invitational.
They did so again last Saturday afternoon through a steady rain, with the boys Bears picking up some strong finishes and Cazenovia stepping up to score 30 points on the girls side for seventh place along with 23 points in the boys event just behind Chittenango’s total of 24.5 points.
Winning the girls 4×100 relay, Cazenovia had the quartet of Audie Spring, Izzy Stromer-Galley, Susie Pittman and Caroline Mehlbaum finish in 52.41 seconds to hold off the 52.77 of runner-up Pulaski. Spring added a fourth in the long jump going 15 feet 5 inches.
Also for the girls Lakers, sophomore Satriah Sikochi impressed in the five-event pentathlon, finishing fourth with 1,879 points, Maura Phillips taking seventh in the 800-meter run in 2:39.08.
Abbie Comeau got to seventh in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 8:12.84 with Izzy Stromer-Galley seventh in the 100-meter dash posting 13.43 seconds and Lily Kogut eighth in the featured Fleet Feet Mile going 5:52.63 while also helping Cazenovia to fourth in the 4×800 relay in 11:05.68.
Cazenovia’s boys team had Jake Woolbert victorious in the full-field mile, his time of 4:43.75 just enough to get past the 4:46.14 of Liverpool’s Josh Vang. Chittenango had Bryce Edwards sixth and Zach Driscoll eighth.
Basil Sayre, Tristan Field-Bradley, Finn Worthington and Eliot Comeau paired up for second place in the 4×400 relay in 3:37.93, the Lakers adding a fifth in the 4×800 in 9:12.86.
Owen Woodworth added a fifth-place finish in the pentathlon for the Lakers, earning 2,149 points as Chittenango’s Landon Pease was sixth with 1,990 points. Worthington was eighth in the 100 in 11.90 seconds and helped the Lakers to sixth in the 4×100 relay/
Sean Eiffe led Chittenango as he unleashed a second-place shot put throw of 47 feet 9 ¾ inches and went 124’1” in the discus to claim fifth place.
Will Kimball helped Chittenango as he took third in the 400 hurdles posting a season-best 58.42 seconds and rose to fifth place in the 110 hurdles in 16.18 and helped the Bears to fifth in the 4×400 in 3:44.84. Joshua Lin was fifth in the triple jump with 36’8 1/2”.
This happened after league openers for both Chittenango and Cazenovia, with the boys Lakers dominating its meet against Westhill handling the Warriors 95-46.
Worthington took the 200-meter dash in 23.6 seconds and edged Westhill’s Owen Mulholland in the 100-meter dash though both finished in 11.5. Wyatt Scott went 1:00.6 to win the 400 hurdles over Nolan Campagna (1:05.6) and Field-Bradley (1:05.9) and, in the triple jump, went 39 feet 1 inches to beat the 38’5” of Judah Ossont.
Charlie Wilcox cleared 10’6” and prevailed in the pole vault, with Ossont topping 5’8” to win the high jump over Woodworth’s 5’6”. Woolbert covered 3,200 meters in 10:30.4 to pull away from the field.
Jonathan Sweet swept the throwing events, his discus toss of 123’8” ahead of Ethan Burry (109 feet) and David Tugaw (100 feet) as Sweet had a winning shot put throw of 34’11 1/2” and Tugaw was second with 33’8 3/4’. Freshman Jaxon Hightchew beat Charlie Wilcox, 18.4 seconds to 18.8, in the 110 hurdles.
Chittenango had its OHSL Liberty division opener last Wednesday against Christian Brothers Academy, roaring to a 141-77 victory on the boys side and a 122-53 victory on the girls side.
Edwards took first in both the 800-meter run in 2:15.9 and the 1,600 where his 5:01.8 edged Driscoll’s 5:03.9 before he completed his distance sweep going 11:01 in the 3,200. Eiffe threw the discus 111’3” and the shot put 47 feet, while Ryan Thousand cleared 8’6” in the pole vault.
To lead the girls Bears, Natalie DiGennaro posted a winning 2:34.5 in the 800-meter run while also taking the triple jump with 30’11”. Mia Schiralli topped 4’4” in the high jump as Callahan DeForest swept to wins in the shot put and discus.
