Mount Greylock Boys, Girls Repeat at Western Mass
BUCKLAND, Mass. – The Mount Greylock girls and boys track and field teams followed up their undefeated dual meet seasons with dominating wins at the Western Massachusetts Division 2 Championships at Mohawk Trail Regional High School on Friday.
Maggie Nichols and Katherine Goss paced the girls by each earning a pair of wins on the track.
Mount Greylock’s boys also had a double winner, Quinn McDermott in the 400-meter dash and the mile run en route to the program’s sixth straight Western Mass title.
Berkshire County was the big winner at the regional competition.
Thirty individual and six relay titles were awarded on Friday afternoon and evening. Athletes from county schools took home 12 first-place finishes in the girls meet and 12 in the boys for a total of 24 of 36 gold medals.
Lenox’s Alice Culver set the tone, going wire-to-wire for the day’s first title decided on the track, the 2-mile run.
“I was going into it just going for the place, not going for the time,” Culver said after defending her 2023 title in the event. “I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel, but I just wanted to go for it.
“My plan was originally not to take the lead. I kind of wanted to stay in second or with the top pack and hold back and pick it up in the second mile. The way it ended up, I got the lead from the start, which was a little bit stressful, but I just knew what I had to do. The second mile, I picked it up and tried to increase the gap.”
Culver finished 13 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.
In addition to the two Mounties with two wins apiece, the county’s third double-winner on Friday was Monument Mountain’s Amelia Desilets, who took the mile and the 800 run.
Desilets and Nichols each also shared a relay title to add to their win collections on Friday – Desilets in the 4-by-800 and Nichols in the 4-by-100.
Friday marked the second year in a row that Nichols doubled in the 100 and 200 at Western Mass.
“I was a little unsure coming into this,” Nichols said after taking the 100 title in her last individual race of the night. “Dezerea [Powell of Pittsfield] was getting a little close. Abby [Gelinas] from Frontier was getting a little close. My plan was just to go out there, run my own race and see what I could do, and it worked out.”
Mount Greylock’s girls finished with nearly double the points of runner-up Frontier Regional.
Monument Mountain placed third in the event.
The next county finisher was Hoosac Valley, which got an individual title from Taylor Garabedian in the discus.
Other individual titlists in the girls meet included Monument Mountain’s Lily Haskins-Vaughan in the high jump and Wahconah’s Adelyn Furlong in the shot put.
In the boys meet, Mount Greylock had a more than comfortable 75-point margin over runner-up Frontier.
Backing up McDemott were three other Mounties with individual titles.
Mason Sayers won the 100 on the track and ran anchor on the Mounties’ winning 4-by-100 relay. And in the throws, Judge Martin and Jenner Kittle took the shot put and javelin, respectively.
It was a clean sweep for Berkshire County in the throws in the boys meet as Wahconah’s Payton Shippee won the discus.
Monument Mountain and Taconic each brought home a pair of individual titles.
The Spartans got wins from Everett Pacheco in the 2-mile run and Oliver Berkowitz in the long jump.
The Thunder’s Elijah Harewood won the 200 meters, and his teammate Andrew Peprah won the 400 hurdles.
Pittsfield’s boys won the mile relay.
GIRLS
Team Scores: 1. Mount Greylock, 158 points; 2. Frontier, 82; 3. Monument Mountain, 58; 4. Belchertown, 42; 5. Hampshire, 41; 6. Pioneer Valley, 34; 7. Mahar, 33; 8. South Hadley, 31; 9. Hoosac Valley, 27; 10. Pope Francis, 26; t-11 Pittsfield, 24; t-13. Lenox, 23; t-13. Wahconah, 23; t-23. Taconic, 3.
100 meters: 1. Maggie Nichols, Mount Greylock, 12.82; 2. Dezerea Powell, Pittsfield, 13.26; 3. Abigail Gelinas, South Hadley, 13.31.
200 meters: 1. Maggie Nichols, Mount Greylock, 25.90; 25.90; 2. Louis Flagollet, Pioneer Valley, 26.98; 3. MacKenzie Loudon, Southwick, 27.11.
400 meters: 1. Nevaeh Scribner, Mahar, 1:01.32; 2. Stephanie Cesar, Pope Francis, 1:01.50; 3. Louise Flagollet, Pioneer Valley, 1:01.51.
800 meters: 1. Amelia Desilets, Monument Mountain, 2:27.11; 2. Gabriella Dybacki, Hampshire, 2:30.34; 3. Cheri Williams, Belchertown, 2:31.02.
Mile: 1. Amelia Desilets, Monument Mountain, 5:22.96; 2. Virginia Krezmien, Mohawk Trail, 5:32.46; 3. Rae Geddes, Monument Mountain, 5:33.32.
2-mile: 1. Alice Culver, Lenox, 12:00.79; 2. Kami Wlodkyka, Belchertown, 12:12.82; 3. Kathleen Barry, Hampshire, 12:23.71.
100 hurdles: 1. Katherine Goss, Mount Greylock, 16.13; 2. Cameron Ting, Belchertown, 17.07; 3. Chase Hoey, Mount Greylock, 17.49.
400 hurdles: 1. Katherine Goss, Mount Greylock, 1:07.45; 2. Lily McDermott, Mount Greylock, 1:08.94; 3. Kathryn Perrone, Wahconah, 1:10.97.
4-by-100 relay: 1. Mount Greylock (Scanlon, Powell, Apotsos, Nichols) 51.37; 2. Sci-Tech, 53.17; 3. Frontier, 54.09.
4-by-400 relay: 1. Pope Francis, 4:24.21; 2. Frontier, 4:25.66; 3. Mount Greylock, 4:34.95.
4-by-800 relay: 1. Monument Mountain (P. Geddes, R. Geddes, Desilets) 10:31.52; 2. Mount Greylock, 10:35.56; 3. Frontier, 10:39.89.
Pole vault: 1. Stellina Moore, Mahar, 9-3; 2. Elsa Brown, Frontier, 8-0; 3. Tessa Burke, Hampshire, 8-0.
High jump: 1. Lily Haskins-Vaughan, Monument Mountain, 5-2; 2. Chase Hoey, Mount Greylock, 5-2; 3. Cameron Ting, Belchertown, 5-2.
Long jump: 1. Kayla Kyles, Sci-Tech, 16-8.25; 2. Cameron Ting, Belchertown, 15-10.25; 3. Dezerea Powell, Pittsfield, 15-8.75.
Triple jump: 1. MacKenzie Loudon, Southwick, 34-8.5; 2. Katherine Goss, Mount Greylock, 34-3; 3. Nevaeah Scribner, Mahar, 33-4.25.
Shot put: 1. Adelyn Furlong, Wahconah, 29-7.75; 2. Kat Simmons, Hampshire, 29-7.75; 3. Karleigh Chase, Athol, 28-11.25.
Discus: 1. Taylor Garabedian, Hoosac Valley, 109-3; 2. Lily Catelotti, Mount Greylock, 101-10; 3. Talia Kapiloff, Mount Greylock, 92-3.
Javelin: 1. Natalie Rios, Pioneer Valley, 111-3; 2. Nora Lopez, Mount Greylock, 108-5; 3. Maeve Turmel, Pope Francis, 107-1.
BOYS
Team Scores: 1. Mount Greylock, 140 points; 2. Frontier, 65.5; 3. Wahconah, 60; 4. Taconic, 50; 5. Mahar, 45; 6. Hampshire, 41; 7. Monument Mountain, 35; 8. Sci-Tech, 34.5; 9. Lenox, 34; 10. Pittsfield, 32.5; 22. Hoosac Valley, 2.
100 meters: 1. Mason Sayers, Mount Greylock, 11.31; 2. Elijah Harewood, Taconic, 11.40; 3. Jaiden Kudelka, Hampshire, 11.42.
200 meters: 1. Elijah Harewood, Taconic, 23.00; 2. Anthony Trapani, Taconic, 23.42; 3. O’Neil Rankins, Sci-Tech, 23.59.
400 meters: 1. Quinn McDermott, Mount Greylock, 51.67; 2. Adam Rokicki, Southwick, 51.77; 3. Dylan Nevarez, Mount Greylock, 51.94.
800 meters: 1. Nick Brisson, Hampshire, 2:03.06; 2. Everett Pacheco, Monument Mountain, 2:03.59; 3. Evan Hedlund, Frontier, 2:05.26.
Mile: 1. Quinn McDermott, Mount Greylock, 4:36; 2. Jackson Caron, Greenfield, 4:37.44; 3. Benjamin Harwood, Lenox, 4:43.23.
2-mile: 1. Everett Pacheco, Monument Mountain, 10:03.17; 2. Andrew Petropulos, Mount Greylock, 10:23.36; 3. Cormac Mathews, Lenox, 10:25.74.
110 hurdles: 1. Mitchell Krasco, Mahar, 15.70; 2. Jameson Webber, South Hadley, 16.26; 3. Liam Furlong, Wahconah, 16.35.
400 hurdles: 1. Andrew Peprah, Taconic, 59.03; 2. Mitchell Krasco, Mahar, 59.33; 3. Adam Rokicki, Southwick, 59.34.
4-by-100 relay: 1. Mount Greylock (Roberts, Nevarez, Klompus, Sayers) 44.98; 2. Springfield International Charter, 45.00; 3. Wahconah, 45.23.
4-by-400 relay: 1. Pittsfield, 3:36.82; 2. Mount Greylock, 3:38.76; 3. Frontier, 3:39.92.
4-by-800 relay: 1. Frontier, 8:43.84; 2. Hampshire, 8:43.99; 3. Mount Greylock, 8:57.65.
Pole Vault: 1. Adrien Pazmandy, Frontier, 11-0; 2. Noah Klompus, Mount Greylock, 10-6; 3. Nathan Gill, Mount Greylock, 9-6.
High jump: 1. Chay Mojallali, Mohawk Trail, 6-6; 2. Owen Klatka, Pittsfield, 6-2; 3. Devan Cerone, Southwick, 6-2.
Long jump: 1. Oliver Berkowitz, MM, 21-8; 2. Julias Lowe-Wanamaker, Sci-Tech, 21-3; 3. Jordan Carter, Southwick, 20-5.5.
Triple jump: 1. Mitchell Krasco, Mahar, 41-10; 2. Will Apotsos, Mount Greylock, 39-10; 3. Cooper Calvert, Wahconah, 39-9.5.
Shot put: 1. Judge Martin, Mount Greylock, 48-0; 2. Julius Kablan, Wahconah, 43-8.5; 3. Nicholas LeBlanc, Athol, 40-10.5.
Discus: 1. Payton Shippee, Wahconah, 153-0; 2. Nicholas LeBlanc, Athol, 150-6; 3. Julius Kablan, Wahconah, 138-3.
Javelin: 1. Jenner Kittle, Mount Greylock, 165-11; 2. Payton Shippee, Wahconah, 155-3; 3. Aiden Dredge, Frontier, 147-8.