Lake Placid’s Kai McKinnon, left, and Saranac Lake’s Brooklynn Shumway compete in the girls’ 4x800-meter relay at the Section VII outdoor track and field championships on May 25 at Peru High School. (News photo — Parker O’Brien)

PERU — The Lake Placid boys scored 28 points to tie for seventh place out of 11 teams on May 25 in the Section VII championship meet at Peru High School. The Saranac Lake boys took home the sectional title with 162 points.

On the girls’ side, the Blue Bomber placed ninth overall with 25 points, while Saranac Central claimed the title with 200 points.

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

Rupert, along with, Aiden Fay, Andrew Scanio and Will 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.

Lake Placid’s Will Douglas leads a Saranac Central runner during the 4x800-meter relay competition at the Section VII outdoor track and field championships on May 25 at Peru High School. (News photo — Parker O’Brien)

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.

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 Scanio (10:51.73) finishing in fifth, the Blue Bombers’ Fay (10:54.49) earning sixth, followed by Saranac Lake’s Aiden Hesseltine (10:55.97) in seventh.

Saranac Lake’s Gabe Wilson 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 and the Blue Bombers’ Max Flanigan (56.00) finished in eighth place.

Flanigan also scored points in the triple jump with a sixth-place effort of 36-03.0.

Lake Placid’s 4×100-meter relay squad of Alex Dawson-Ellis, Landon Lopez, Jesse Marshall and Sean Roth finished in sixth place in 50.42.

Lake Placid’s Maegan Shambo throw the shot put at the Section VII outdoor track and field championships on May 25 at Peru High School. (News photo — Parker O’Brien)

Lopez also took eighth place in the high jump with a jump of 5-04.0.

The Lake Placid girls 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. 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. Morreli had a solid performance in the 400-meter competition where she finished in seventh place in 1:05.

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.

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

Lansing, Morelli, Damico and McKinnon teamed up for the 4×800-meter competition and were rewarded with a fifth-place finish in 10:50.95.

Some of the Lake Placid athletes were scheduled to compete at the state qualifier meet on June 3 at Beekmantown High School. The NYSPHSAA championships will take place on June 10 and 11 at Cicero-North Syracuse High School.