MIDDLETOWN — Oneonta girls’ track & field team ran away with two relays at Saturday’s NYSPHAA Track & Field Championships, breaking a school record along the way to win a second consecutive state crown in the 4×100 relay.
The Yellowjackets’ quartet of Claire and Maddie Seguin, Selene Wellman and Cassidy Howard won both the Class C 4×100 and 4×400 over the weekend at Middletown High School. Oneonta’s Beckett Holmes also won the Class C boys’ pentathlon and was fourth overall.
Also winning gold at the state meet was Sidney junior Michael Morrisey. He claimed the Class C title in the discus on his final throw and was second in the shot put.
In the 4×100, Claire and Maddie Seguin, Wellman and Howard won in 48.29 seconds, nearly a second ahead of any other team in the field on Friday. The quartet also dropped more than a second and a half off the 2024 win, which came in 49.88 seconds. The Seguin sisters and Wellman were part of last year’s winning team. Sidney was sixth in 50.13 seconds.
In the 4×400, Oneonta had to come from behind to win Class C gold Saturday. The Yellowjackets were in third after the first laps of the four-lap race, moved up to second before sprinting home in the final 400 to finish in 4:05.00. Southwestern was second in 4:05.19.
In addition to her two gold medals in the relays, Howard was second in the Class C 200-meter dash among. She finished in 25.61 seconds. Sidney’s Dejah Taylor finished just behind Howard in the 200 in 25.87. Taylor earned a second medal in the open 400, finishing third in 56.97.
Morrisey came within a few inches of a double-gold in Class C Boys.
The junior from Sidney won the discus with a toss of 158-9 on Friday. Morrisey led early after hitting a throw of 150-3 on his first attempt. That was good enough for the lead until Southwestern’s Tyler McIntyre threw 158-2 on his fifth attempt, moving him ahead of Morriesy. On his final throw, Morrisey hit the meet’s biggest toss to claim gold.
In the shot, Morrisey hit a throw of 53-7 1/2 in his final toss, but it wasn’t enough to catch Tri-Valley’s Kane Poje, who won at 53-11 1/4.
Oneonta got a silver medal performance from Darren Rose in the Class C boys’ triple jump. Ross set a program record with a leap of 46-3 3/4 to finish second in Class C and sixth overall. Aiden Bryant of Midlakes won Class C at 47-8 1/2.
Oneonta’s Beckett Holmes medaled in the Boys Pentathlon, with a fourth-place finish overall with 3,301 points, the highest finisher among Class C pentathletes. John Jay’s Nathaniel Johnson won with a score of 3,737. Holmes was sixth in the high hurdles, seventh in the high jump, ninth in the shot put, fourth in the long jump and 15th in the 1,500.
Other qualifers for Oneonta included Colin Fletcher Foster, who was 11th in Class C — 42nd overall — in the 1,600. He set a school record in 4:25.47, breaking a record that had stood since 1998. Keyon Ziaie was sixth in the Class C 800 in 1:57.05. Foster and Zaiie were part of the Yellowjackets’ 4×800 team that was sixth in Class C and 36th overall.
In the girls’ triple jump, Keirya Morton was sixth in Class C with a leap of 39-9 1/2 and Oxford’s Keegan Waltz was sixth in the boys’ Class 400 in 49.39.