The Shaker boys and Queensbury girls track and field teams dominated last Saturday’s Warrior Classic at Niskayuna High School.
Shaker easily claimed the boys team title with 126 points, more than double runner-up Ballston Spa’s total of 62 points, while Queensbury won the girls title with 108 points. Ballston Spa finished second with 96 points.
Niskayuna placed fifth in the girls team standings with 50 points and ninth in the boys team standings with 26 points. Scotia-Glenville’s boys team was third with 37 points, while the girls team finished 11th with 10 points.
Sprinters Robert Johnson and Brian Letourneau led Shaker. Johnson won the 100-meter dash in a time of 11.2 seconds, while Letourneau claimed the 200-meter dash title wit6h a time of 23.1 seconds.
Chris Herman and Craig Weiss also won individual races for the Blue Bison. Herman finished first in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:58.9, three-tenths of a second ahead of Niskayuna’s Robbie DeWald, while Weiss won the 1,500-meter race in a time of 4:11.3. Niskayuna’s Marshall Pagano was second in the 1,500 with a time of 4:12.4.
Niskayuna’s Louis Serafini prevented Shaker runners from sweeping the distance events. Serafini won the 3,000 in a time of 8:59.1, nearly four seconds ahead of Shaker’s Ryan Egan.
Other winners of individual track events included Schuylerville’s Shane Wagner (110 and 400 hurdles) and Roosevelt’s Chris Davis (400 dash).
Shaker also claimed two of the three boys relay races. The team of Brendan Dolan, Matt Dustin, Matt Conti and Abara Oluebube won the 1,600 relay in a time of 3:33.0, and the quartet of Egan, Matt Blizinski, Christian Delago and Casey Gillboy finished first in the 3,200 relay with a time of 8:24.6. Roosevelt High School of Yonkers won the 400 relay in a time of 44.6 seconds.
Scotia-Glenville’s Tim Holzhauer and Kyle Palombo won field events for the Tartans. Holzhauer claimed the long jump title with a leap of 21 feet, 3.25 inches, while Palombo handled the competition in the triple jump with a distance of 44 feet, 3.5 inches.
Other boys field event winners included Ballston Spa’s Tim Schmitt (high jump), Queensbury’s Nick Gerardi (pole vault), Averill Park’s John Rudd (shot put) and New Paltz’s Dan Cimino (discus).
Niskayuna’s Dana Provost and Sonya Pevzner won individual titles in girls events at the Warrior Classic. Provost finished first in the 100 hurdles with a time of 16.8 seconds, and Pevzner won the triple jump with a distance of 32 feet, 5.75 inches. Pevzner also finished third in the 200 dash finals with a time of 27.4 seconds.
Individual champions in girls track events were Schenectady’s Dahni Anderson (100 dash), Saunders’ Ihiechi Ohia-Enyia (200 and 400 dashes), Schuylerville’s Alexis Broz (400 hurdles) and Queensbury’s Danielle Winslow (800 and 1,500) and Brittany Winslow (3,000). Schuylerville’s Sarah Palmer (high jump, pole vault and long jump), Ballston Spa’s Ameila Gonzales (shot put) and Queensbury’s Priscilla Thermidor (discus) won field events.
Ballston Spa won the girls 400 and 1,600 relays, while Queensbury finished first in the girls 3,200 relay.`