The Red Storm track team will send Jake Kollmer and Liam Nobles to the state meet. Lake Placid will send Aidan Fay. All three qualified after winning their respective events at the Section VII State Qualifiers this past Friday.

The NYSPHSAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships will take place at the Cicero-North Syracuse High School on Friday and Saturday.

Kollmer qualified for the state after winning the 1,600-meter and the 800 event. Nobles picked up wins in the long jump and triple jump and Fay won the 3,200 meter event.

Nobles won the triple with a leap of 43-10.25 and the long jump with 21-04.5. Lake Placid’s Jesse Marshall finished fourth in the triple jump with a personal best leap of 38-05.0.

Lake Placid’s Aidan Fay competes in the 1,600 during the Section VII state qualifiers event in Saranac Lake on Friday. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

Kollmer won the 1,600 in 4 minutes, 25.30 seconds, with Lake Placid’s Fay (4:33.27) finishing in second and Beekmantown’s Nolan Laidman (4:36.65) in third.

Kollmer capped of the day by edging out Seton Catholic’s Aiden Pearl (2:05.20) in 800 by 0.32 seconds. He finished in 2:04.70. The Blue Bombers’ Ethan Cash was fourth in 2:15.92 in that event and Red Storm teammate Sam Bickford was seventh in 2:26.10.

After Fay fell to Saranac’s Andrew Denial in the Section VII championships last week, the junior pulled past Denial on the seventh lap of the 3,200 meter and never let up, securing his ticket to the state meet in a personal best 9:44.72. Denial placed second in 9:49.36.

Saranac Lake’s Dustin Burke placed second in the shot put with a throw of 42-11.5. Peru’s Elliot Supley won the event with a throw of 51-04.0.

The Red Storm’s Bickford and Soren Wolford closed out their track career with third place finishes in the 400 and 100-meter events, respectively.

Saranac Lake’s Cadence Kennedy competes in the 3,000 during the Section VII state qualifiers event in Saranac Lake on Friday. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien)

Wolford finished the 100 in 11.76, trailing behind only Peru’s Sawyer Schlitt (11.19) in first and Beekmantown’s Chris Frennier (11.68) in second. Bickford placed third in the 400 with a personal best time of 54.65.

Lake Placid’s 4×400-meter relay team of Cash, Fay, Marshall and Jim Guglielmi had a strong showing, placing second in 3:58.48.

The state qualifier event also showcased Saranac Lake’s new steeplechase. The Blue Bombers’ Cash was the only local athlete to take part in the boys 3,000 steeplechase competition. The senior placed third overall in 12:03.13.

On the girls side, the Lake Placid’s Kai McKinnon was the lone local competitor in the girls 2,000 steeplechase, placing second overall in 8:16.52.

McKinnon also finished the 1,500 in fourth place in 5:32.56, with Blue Bomber teammate Holly Erenstone trailing behind for fifth at 5:52.54. Also, in the distance events, Saranac Lake’s Cadence Kennedy finished third overall in the 3,00 in a time of 11:41.62.

On the throws side, Cora Hotchkiss was third in discus with a personal best toss of 97-04. Teammate Brook Burke was fifth with a throw of 79-07. In shot put, Lake Placid’s Lily Fisher placed seventh with a throw of 26-05.00.

In the pentathlon, which combines 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump and the 800, Saranac Lake’s Maggie Reed was third overall with 1,867 points. Peru’s Maggie Garrow won the event with 2,913 points and AuSable Valley’s Emma Pelkey was third with 2,549.

The Blue Bombers rounded out the meet with a fourth place finish from Clara Boutelle (1:07.20) in the 400 and a fourth place finish from the 4×100 relay team of Fisher, Ashe Gagnon, Mya Marshall and Alexandria Smith in 57.55.