Putman leads C-NS girls track at sectional meet

By PHil Blackwell

Paced by a serious star turn from senior Kate Putman, the Cicero-North Syracuse girls track and field team claimed another Section III Class AA championship Wednesday at Bragman Stadium.

The Northstars picked up 182 points, well clear of Liverpool, who with 106.92 points easily claimed second place as Utica Proctor (60 points) was well back in third.

To start her day, Putman went four minutes, 41.82 seconds to pull away and take the 1,500-meter run over Fayetteville-Manlius rival Izzie Sullivan (4:47.81) before she went to the 400-meter dash and took it in 59.01 seconds, with Hannah Boyle fourth in 1:02.70.

And Putman had enough left to go to the 3,000-meter run where, in 10:03.52, she again finished ahead of Sullivan (10:12.42), while Boyle got her own title in the 800-meter run in 2:22.73, beating out the 2:23.99 from Liverpool’s Taylor Page in second as Page also was fifth in the 1,500 in 4:56.17.

Grace Murray also won twice, as she went 1:08.30 to pull away and take the 400 hurdles, with Jaydin Mackey third in 1:11.62 before a 200-meter dash where Murray, in 26.41 seconds, edged the 26.66 from Mackey.

In the long jump, Morgan Hayes prevailed by going 17 feet 4 inches, with Kalli Congden third (16’10”) and Anna Eells fourth (16’4 1/2”). Moving to the triple jump, Eells won with 36’7 3/4” to top the 36’1” from Hayes.

Congden cleared 5’3” in the high jump, second to the 5’4” from Nottingham’s Miyanaah Robinson. Congden also got second in the 100 hurdles in 15.23 seconds, with Hayes fourth (15.57) and Aaliyah McDonald fifth (15.76).

Putman and Boyle joined Cameron Sisk and Allison Moran to finish second (10:01.02) to Fayetteville-Manlius (9:36.11) in the 4x800 relay, with Liverpool third in 10:08.26 as the Northstars were fourth (4:13.75) in the 4x400 relay.

With 2,247 points in the pentathlon, Jasmine Ayre beat the 1,704 from Liverpool’s Alannah Edwards, with Ava Schiff third and Addison Burt fourth. Kaleigh Bosimenu finished fourth in the pole vault and Julia Arnold fifth in the discus.

To lead Liverpool, Allie Cary threw the discus 128’4”, nearly 23 feet ahead of Auburn’s Rhian Crowley (105’5”) as Cary also had ashot put 38’8”, going 1-2 with Janea Hamilton-Brown (31’3 1/2”), who also was fourth (86’5”) in the discus.

Liverpool also won the 4x100 as Sophia Jarosz, Mia Wright, Maddie Devendorf and Mikayla Greene went 51.20 seconds, nearly a full second ahead of B’ville’s second-place 52.11.

Layla Pearl Collins, clearing 9 feet, got second place in the pole vault to B’ville’s Sydney McKenney (10 feet). Greene was third in the 200 in 26.81, with Addison Ziegler third in the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 8:01.17 and Beatrize Gurgol fourth in the high jump, clearing 4’8”.

Over in the boys sectional Class AA meet, C-NS had 89 points, trailing only the 163 from

Baldwinsville as Liverpool, with 21 points, finished 10th.

To lead the boys Northstars, Sean Graves blazed to first in the 400 hurdles in 58.16 seconds, with Jordan Ballard third in 1:01.09 after he took second in the 110 high hurdles in 15.49. Going 1-2 in the pentathlon, the Northstars had Xander Provost earn 2,761 points to beat the 2,470 from Andrew Potter as Liverpool had Logan Otero fourth and Takeoni Ryan fifth. Joe Main added a second-place shot put toss of 48’3”, not far from the winning 51’4 1/4” by Auburn star Dustin

Swartwood. Jayceon McGrew, Davine Bennett, Trevon Walker and Aidan Birmingham were second in the 4x100 relay in 44.80 to West Genesee’s 43.75, with Graves, Dante Melfi, Dan Henry and James McConnell second in the 4x400 in 3:29.70, just behind B’ville’s 3:27.56.

C-NS fwas third in the 4x800 relay in 8:37.25, edging Liverpool’s fourth-place 8:38.78. Henry cleared 11 feet for third place in the pole vault as Melfi went 2:02.96 for fourth place in the 800 as McConnell took sixth in the 400 sprint in 52.92. Liverpool’s Ny’Quez Madison had his team’s best individual finish, going 21’ 3/4” in the long jump for third place as Walker was sixth for C-NS with 19’8 1/4” after a fourth (39’11 1/2”) in the triple jump.

Roman Murray was sixth in the 1,600-meter run and 3,000meter steeplechase, with Michael Purvis sixth and Brady Ruediger seventh in the 3,200-meter run. Anthony Kelly got sixth place in the discus with 119 feet, beating Main’s 116 feet for seventh place.