C-NS girls indoor track roars to SCAC meet title

By PHIL BLACKWELL

From distance races to field events and lots in between, the Cicero-North Syracuse girls indoor track and field team fully took charge of last Thursday’s Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division championships at SRC Arena.

Finishing with 188 points, the Northstars were well clear of Liverpool, who got 97 points for second place.

Posting a national top-10 time in the girls 1,000-meter run, C-NS’s Kate Putman went two minutes, 49.76 seconds to beat a strong 3:05.40 from the Warriors’ Taylor Page as Sophia Graham (3:15.01) was fourth. Later, Putman, Katy Harbold, Elianna Ballagh and Marissa Navarra won the 4x800 relay in 9:53.86.

Gabby Putman prevailed twice, going 10:11.95 for a national top-25 clocking in the 3,000-meter run as Kennedy Jones (11:24.02) finished fourth. Then Putman took the 600meter run in 1:41.38 over teammate Katy Harbold’s 1:42.75, with Page getting third place (1:43.92) for Liverpool.

Marissa Doty stepped up in the sprints, winning the 55-meter dash in 7.57 seconds as Jaydin Mackey (7.74) was fifth. Then, in the

300-meter dash, Doty went 42.43, going 1-2 with Grace Murray’s 43.35.

To cap off her day, Doty joined Mackey, Murray and Hannah Boyle to go 1:49.07 and win the 4x200 relay over Liverpool’s secondplace 1:50.52. C-NS also was second (4:22.27) in the 4x400 relay, with Liverpool third in 4:27.74. Yet another 1-2 finish came in the long jump, Morgan Hayes going 15 feet 11 ¼ inches ahead of Jasmine Ayre’s 15’8” as Liverpool’s Beatrize Gurgol was third with 15’7 1/2”. Ayre would win the triple jump with 35’6” beating, among others, Kalli Congden (31’10 3/4”) in third place. Eells, in the high jump, topped 5’1” for second place as Congden (4’8” was fourth. Marissa Navarra got third in the 1,500-meter run in 5:05.80, with Jasmine Ayre third (9.23 seconds) and Anna Eells fourth (9.30) in the 55 hurdles. Kaleigh Bosimenu topped 7’6” for third place in the pole vault.

Again leading Liverpool, Allie Cary won the shot put with a toss of 36’6 1/2” as C-NS’s Ava Schiff was third (28’7 1/4”), while in the weight throw Cary’s 36’10 3/4” beat out the Northstars’ Maria Sanfilippo, second with 35’5”.