The Red Storm boys took home the sectional title with 162 points. The Lake Placid boys scored 28 points to tie for seventh place out of 11 teams.

On the girls’ side, Saranac Central claimed the title with 200 points. Saranac Lake finished in fifth place with 58.5 points and the Blue Bomber girls placed ninth with 25 points.

“Obviously this was an incredible day for our boys’ track and field program to win the section by almost 50 points,” Red Storm boys coach Cy Ellsworth said in a statement. “Our performance does not surprise me, however. I have an incredible coaching staff and hard-working, high-character kids. Our athletes thrive on our cohesiveness and a byproduct of this cohesion is greater performances.”

Sam Ash, a junior, paced the Saranac Lake boys with two individual wins in distance running. Ash won the 3,200-meter in 10 minutes, 13.45 seconds and the 1,600-meter in 4:38.21.

Saranac Lake's Alison Hewitt throws the shot put during the Section VII outdoor track and field championships on Wednesday at Peru High School. The Red Storm girls track team finished the meet in fifth place with 58.5 points. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

Four other local runners finished in the top-7 slots in the 3,200, with the Red Storms’ Jake Kollmer (10:33.40) taking fourth, Lake Placid’s Andrew Scanio (10:51.73) finishing in fifth, the Blue Bombers’ Aidan Fay (10:54.49) earning sixth, followed by Saranac Lake’s Aiden Hesseltine (10:55.97) in seventh.

The Red Storm’s Mitchell Ellsworth won the shot put contest with a throw of 49 feet, 0.5 inches. Ellsworth also took second place in the discus competition.

Gabe Wilson won the high jump contest in a tiebreaker at 5’8″ for Saranac Lake. Wilson also took third place in the 400-meter in a time of 53.23, while Lake Placid’s Will Douglas (54.43) just missed out on a podium spot finishing in fifth place.

Wilson finished the meet with two more third-place finishes in the long jump and the triple jump, his teammate, Liam Nobles, earned second in the two events.

“Wilson scored some serious points for us today,” Cy Ellsworth said. “He has watched in previous years other athletes do the same thing and today was his turn.”

Lake Placid’s Ellen Lansing jumps during the triple jump at the Section VII outdoor track and field championships on Wednesday at Peru High School. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

Nobles, a freshman, was able to come away with an individual title. Nobles, along with Soren Wolford, Carter Hewitt and Bailey Bartholomew won the 4×100 relay in 46.13 seconds. Hewitt also took third place in the 110-meter hurdles.

Although the Blue Bomber boys didn’t come away with an individual, they put together some solid results including two third-place finishes from Jackson Rupert.

Rupert, along with, Fay, Scanio and Douglas finished the 4×800-meter relay competition in third place at a time of 8:49.34, which was 0.26 seconds faster than the fourth-place relay team — Saranac Lake.

Rupert also earned third place in the 800-meter competition, finishing the race in 2:23.13.

Lydia Wamsganz nearly had an individual title for the Red Storm girls in the 800-meter competition finishing in 2:31.55 but was edged out by Peru’s Maggie Garrow, who finished 0.26 seconds ahead of her.

Saranac Lake’s Lydia Wamsganz runs ahead of Lake Placid’s Sam Damico during the Section VII 4x400-meter relay competition on Wednesday at Peru High School. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

Saranac Lake’s Bethany Clark placed second in the 100-meter hurdles. Mia Sanford took second place in the discus competition with an 89’09” throw and third place in the shot put with a throw of 32’8″ for the Red Storm. Her teammate, Alison Hewitt (88’11”), finished the discus competition in third place.

The Blue Bombers placed second in the 4×100-meter relay. The Blue Bomber team of Clara Boutelle, Lily Jones, Senna Pepe and Addison Van Ness finished in 57.05.

The Saranac Lake girls came away with a third-place finish in the 4×400-meter relay on Tuesday. Wamsganz, Chloe Skiff, Awa Kujabi and Addison Ash finished in 4:30.29. Lake Placid’s 4×400-meter relay team of Jones, Samantha Damico, Pia Morrelli and Kai McKinnon finished in fourth place in 4:31.67.

Damico, an eighth-grader, claimed third place in the 1,500-meter. She finished in a time of 5:15.03.

In the 400-meter hurdles competition, Saranac Lake’s Michaela Gillis took fourth place in 1:16.59, while the Blue Bombers’ Ellen Lansing (1:18.07) finished in sixth and the Red Storm’s Grace Glascock (1:18.38) finished in seventh.

Lake Placid’s Max Flannigan competes in the boys’ 4x400-meter relay at the Section VII outdoor track and field championships on Wednesday in Peru. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

Lansing also came away with a top-ten finish in the triple jump, where she earned eighth place with a jump of 29’11”.

The two squads will now shift their focus on the state qualifier meet next Friday at Beekmantown High School. The NYSPHSAA championships will take place on June 10 and 11 at Cicero-North Syracuse High School.

Saranac Lake’s Austin Barry throws the shot put during the Section VII outdoor track and field championships on Wednesday in Peru. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)