On Saturday, the Trojans captured some postseason hardware.

Southwestern boys finished with 191 points and the girls totaled 172 points as both won Division 1 crowns at the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Track & Field Championships at Bill Race Field.

“I look at track during the year as a team sport. I guess that’s where my background is as a football and basketball coach,” Southwestern boys head coach Jay Sirianni said. “We set team goals. Our team goals are to win the league, win the county and then win a sectional championship. It feels pretty good to achieve two out of the three steps.”

Randolph took the Division 3 boys title with 177 points and Clymer/Sherman/Panama claimed Division 3 girls honors with 146 points.

Southwestern’s Emma Lewis clears a barrier during the girls 2,000-meter steeplechase. P-J photo by Tim Frank

Allegany-Limestone prevailed in Division 2 with 187 points for the boys and 153 points for the girls.

Nate Lewis, Declan Kennedy and Michael Butterfield were the driving forces behind Southwestern’s boys title.

Lewis, a senior, won the 3,000-meter steeplechase by clipping Frewsburg’s Cody Kent at the wire by just over a second and also took second in the 3,200 meters in 10:04.93.

“Nate’s a competitor. He wanted to go out there and compete. Just having good runners in a race together is going to make each one of them better,” Sirianni said of Lewis and Kent. “Nate was focused today, went out and had a great, strong finish to that race.”

Kennedy, a junior, won the 110-meter high hurdles in 16.4 seconds and then came up second to Dunkirk’s Michael Hanlon in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles with a time of 59.34 seconds.

Clymer/Sherman/Panama’s Leighanne Swan smiles after crossing the finish line first in front of Frewsburg’s Olivia Hallenbeck, left, and Chautauqua Lake/Westfield/Brocton’s Dakota Rammelt, right, in the girls 100-meter hurdles. P-J photo by Tim Frank

“Sometimes when you have an older brother as decorated as his,” Sirianni said of Declan’s older brother, Aidan, a quarterback at Pace University, “it’s pretty awesome that Declan is excelling in a sport that his brother wasn’t in. He’s a grinder and a worker. He just keeps getting better. I love watching him race because he’s just a tough kid who goes out and runs.”

Butterfield, a senior, beat Jamestown sophomore Jarren Cotter for first place in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.54 seconds before coming up just short to Frewsburg junior Landon Stormer in the 200 meters with a time of 23.07 seconds.

“He was sick at the beginning of the year and has had a couple of obstacles to overcome,” Sirianni said. “He’s starting to get back into shape and getting back to normal. He’s just ready to compete. That 200 race was a good race between him and Stormer. He looked good in the 100.”

Emma Lewis and Faith Hamilton turned in championship performances to lead Southwestern’s girls.

Emma, Nate’s eighth-grade sister, won both the 2,000-meter steeplechase in 7:17.81 — more than 30 seconds better than second-place Lilianna Peters of Allegany-Limestone — and the 3,000 meters in 10:49.56.

Randolph’s Talon Rowland, center, and Frewsburg’s Landon Stormer, right, race to the finish line in the boys 400-meter dash during the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Track & Field Championships on Saturday at Bill Race Field in Falconer. P-J photo by Tim Frank

“She hit the state-qualifying standard, which was a goal from the beginning of the season,” Southwestern girls head coach Adam Frisbee said of Lewis’ steeplechase. “As an eighth-grader to live up to the expectations is cool. I definitely see a different Emma Lewis out there, even just after that race.”

The weekend provided a chance for Lewis to shine without the shadow of nationally ranked Allegany-Limestone senior Angelina Napoleon entered in the meet.

“I think it’s going to be really good for Emma. We’ve told her a few times throughout the year, that people notice her and she is recognizable out there. She’s young and has a bright future,” Frisbee said. “Angelina is an incredible talent. … When Angelina runs, she runs ahead of people. When Emma runs without Angelina, Emma is ahead of those groups.”

Trojans freshman Lucy Brown ran the steeplechase for the first time and finished third.

“Pedro Melendez, our distance coach, has those kids showing up,” Frisbee said. “He has a plan with how he wants that program to develop itself.”

Cardinals’ Corinne Inkley clears the bar in the girls pole vault. P-J photo by Tim Frank

Hamilton, a junior, captured the shot put with a heave of 32 feet.

“Faith is a rookie this year even though she’s a junior. Coach Adam Brown has been doing a fantastic job with all of the athletes, boys and girls,” Frisbee said. “Faith has embraced it. She’s quick learner … she’s getting more refined, her technique is getting better. Her progression has been wonderful.”

Randolph’s boys found just enough points in the end to hold off a valiant effort by Frewsburg thanks to the winning quartet of Roan Kelly, Jaiden Huntington, Talon Rowland and Caden Inkley.

“Going into the year we’re looking at league championship, county championship and Friday is Class D championship,” Randolph head coach Sean Ode said. “We still have Chautauqua Lake for our last league meet … if we win we get it outright.”

Kelly, a junior, tracked down Chautauqua Lake/Westfield/Brocton senior Elias Quintero in the home stretch of the 800 meters with a time of 1:57.53 Friday evening before coasting to victory in the 1,600 meters Saturday with a time of 4:41.84.

“Roan’s been going through some stuff this year so we’ve had to kind of go light on him hoping he’d be ready to do it for us at this time of year,” Ode said. ” … He’s performed huge like he always does.”

Huntington, a senior, doubled up with a first-place throw of 47 feet, 7.5 inches in the shot put Friday and a toss of 139 feet, 9 inches in the discus Saturday.

“Jaiden is just awesome out there,” Ode said.

Inkley, a sophomore, beat out senior teammate Clayton Crouse with a winning height of 13 feet, 4 inches in the pole vault Friday.

“The pole vault has always been huge at Randolph. We’ve had kids go to states for the past 25 years,” Ode said. ” … It’s just one of those events where you get a couple of good vaulters and you are going to score 8 or 9 points at a lot of meets.”

Rowland won a duel with Stormer, his indoor teammate, in the 400 meters Saturday, winning in 49.71 seconds, which was 11 hundredths of a second better than Frewsburg’s star sprinter.

“They’ve been back and forth all year. … They are pushing each other every meet,” Ode said of Rowland and Stormer. “This week it was a huge one for Talon. He’s 11 hundredths off our school record that he’s been itching for for a couple of years.”

Clymer/Sherman/Panama’s girls had just one winner — senior Leighanne Swan in the pentathlon earlier in the week and the 100-meter hurdles Saturday — but beat Randolph with its depth on the weekend.

“Leighanne is just a phenomenal athlete. She is every coach’s dream,” Clymer/Sherman/Panama head coach Pam Warner said. “She’s gained a lot of confidence … and that spilled into this weekend.”

Sophomore Isa Kioko finished second in the high jump at a height of 5 feet and Swan was fourth at 4 feet, 8 inches while junior Tayden Persons was fifth in the 400-meter hurdles.

“We’ve got a lot of great veteran girls who are just awesome role models for our younger runners,” Warner said.

The Wolfpack’s 3,200-meter relay team of Solki Martin-Lacayo, Hannah Schauman, Grace Cooke and Haley Odell were third in 10:39.66 and their 1,600-meter relay team of Martin-Lacayo, Persons, Tess Flikkema and Swan were fifth in 4:35.24.

“I had to put a seventh-grader and an eighth-grader in as alternates and they pulled out a fifth place,” Warner said of the fifth-place relay. “They just look up to those girls. … We just have a great squad of girls.”