Caz track athletes earn spot in NYSPHSAA meet

By PHil BlACkWEll

A season where the Cazenovia boys track and field team did not lose a head-tohead meet and then claimed the Section III Class B-2 title will end with one more appearance.

Top Lakers athletes will go to Middletown High School this weekend for the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Division II championships after qualifying during the spring.

The last event to do so was the sectional state qualifier, held last Thursday in hot (90-plus degrees) conditions at CiceroNorth Syracuse’s Bragman Stadium.

During the 4x400 relay, Cazenovia’s quartet of Eliot Comeau, Dan Raymond, Tristan Field-Bradley and Jaden Kaplan went three minutes, 32.18 seconds, leading after every leg.

And it was Chittenango finishing second as Jacob Scheidelman, Landon Parks, Caleb LeBlanc and Michael Eiffe finished in 3:34.77, more than two seconds behind the Lakers.

But the Bears did get a win in the 110 hurdles when Joseph Lin, in 15.58 seconds, edged the 15.60 from Indian River’s