Caz boys track rolls to sectional Class B-2 title

By PHil BlACkWEll

Both of the Cazenovia track and field teams made their way home from Canastota May 25 with Section III Class B-2 championships in their possession.

For the boys Lakers, it meant securing 152 points and pulling clear of runnerup Marcellus, who had 96 points. Clinton finished third with 83.50 points.

Again, Cazenovia’s distance runners had a big part in the victory, starting in the 4x800 relay where Jaden Kaplan, Will Austin, Caleb Gilmore and Branden McColm went eight minutes, 36.29 seconds to beat second-place Phoenix (8:44.97) by more than eight seconds.

McColm did much more, prevailing at 1,600 meters in 4:42.17, more than 10 seconds clear of Hannibal’s Gavin Griffin (4:53.19), who just held off Austin (4:53.43) in third place as Jake Woolbert was sixth and J.D. Dolly seventh.

Capping off his big day, McColm went to the 3,000meter steeplechase and, in

10:53.77, put up the only time under 11 minutes, Eddie Comeau finishing fifth in 11:34.21. Kaplan got his victory in the 800-meter run, going

2:05.10 to the 2:06.61 of Adirondack’s Jacob Strain, McColm getting fourth place in 2:09.55. Chris Kelly went 3,200 meters in 10:54.90 for second place as Woolbert (10:57.56) was fourth. Connor Frisbie won twice, going to the 110 high hurdles and taking it in 16.88 seconds, the only time under 17 seconds as Sam Wilcox stepped up to finish third in 17.69 and added a third in the 400 hurdles in 1:05.21.

In the triple jump, Frisbie prevailed with a leap of 40 feet 7 inches. Dan Raymond went 52.07 seconds to edge Skaneateles’ Jack Phillips (52.35) and win the 400-meter dash, with Eliot Comeau going 53.45 for fourth place.

Then Raymond and Comeau joined Kaplan and Tristan Field-Bradley to take the 4x400 relay in 3:34.59, edging Marcellus (3:34.71) at the finish line.

Comeau, eighth in the triple jump, was victorious in the high jump, clearing 5’10”, two inches ahead of Frisbie (5’8”) in third place.

Killian Blouin topped 10’6” for second place in the pole vault as Jed Olkowski was seventh in the shot put with 37’1 1/4” and Wilcox eighth (100 feet) in the discus

J.P. Hoak took fifth in the 100-meter dash in 11.94 seconds as Finn Worthington (12.15) was seventh, but improved to fourth in the 200meter dash in 24.21 as Hoak (24.39) was sixth, Wyatt Scott eighth and Raymond ninth.

Scott took seventh and Braden Carnahan eighth in the long jump as Gabe Sanchez finished eighth in the pentathlon with 1,794 points and Will Schimer ninth in the 400 hurdles.

Over in Camden, Chittenango finished seventh in the girls portion of the sectional Class B-1 meet and 10th in the boys division as Westhill claimed both team titles.

On the boys side, the

Bears’ Joseph Lin got second place in the 110 hurdles in 15.98 seconds to the 15.72 from Syracuse ITC’s Tyshawn Taylor, also finishing second in the long jump by going 21’1 1/4”. Robert Pierce, Jacob Scheidelman, Quinn O’Brian and Landon Parks were third in the 4x100 relay in 46.61.

Mariah Stewart was fourth in the girls pentathlon with 1,774 points and Quentin Mohamed matched that finish in the boys pentathlon, getting 2,158 points. Ganon Catlin was seventh in the steeplechase as Connor Brooks took eighth in the 400 hurdles and Sean Eiffe eighth in the shot put.

Chittenango’s girls also had Hannah Wagner third in the 400 hurdles in 1:11.02 and Laura Powers fourth in the 3,000-meter run in 11:47.48, Jordan Wagner earning fourth in the long jump with 15’10 3/4”. Sophia DiGennaro went 2:31.98 in the 800 for fifth place and helped Hannah Wagner, Jordan Wagner and Lily Wynkoop get third in the 4x400 relay in 4:19.64.