Mount Greylock Regional School alumnus Jake Benzinger was credited with one tackle for Wake Forest Saturday in the Demon Deacons’ 24-14 win at Duke.

 

Benzinger, a 6-foot-7, 285-pound lineman and 2015 Mount Greylock graduate, is listed as a red-shirt freshman on the Wake Forest roster.

 

Saturday’s game was telecast on ESPNU. next week, Wake Forest hosts the University of Delaware in a game that will be seen on online on the ACCN Extra telecast.

 

In Division III, Lenox High graduate and Lee High football alum Matt Heppleston has appeared in one game so far as a freshman defensive lineman at Macalaster College in Minnesota, which is 1-1 this fall.

 

The MCLA men’s soccer team is off to a 2-3 start this fall with Berkshire County residents Khalil Kareh (Hoosac Valley) and Jeremy Schnopp (Lenox).

 

Mount Greylock grads Jake and Sam Kobrin each ran well Saturday for the Vassar College men’s cross country teams, finishing five seconds apart as the Brewers hosted the Ron Stonitsch Invitational.

 

The Carleton College women’s cross country team started the 2016 season at the Augustana Twilight, where the Knights raced against a 20-team field including eight NCAA Division II programs. Junior Emily Kaegi of Mount Greylock was the top D-III runner, finishing 17th out of 228 racers, with a time of 17 minutes, 38 seconds for the 3-mile distance. She led the No. 19-ranked Knights to a seventh-place finish and was named MIAC Women’s Cross Country Athlete-of-the-Week.

 

Hartford University junior and Monument Mountain graduate Heather Hassett finished 24th for the Hawks at the season-opening Stony Brook Cross Country Invitational Labor Day weekend.

 

Pittsfield resident Michaela Grady ran her first race earlier this month for the Westfield State University women’s cross country team. Grady, who earned her high school diploma from the Massachusetts Virtual Academy in the spring, is a freshman at Westfield State this fall.

 

At that same meet, Lenox grad and Williams freshman Emily Tibbetts competed for the Ephs.

 

Lenox grad Alessandra Arace, a freshman at Providence College, started two of the first seven games for the Friars and appeared in three contests, helping her team to a 4-3-1 start.

 

Pittsfield alumna Taylor Patti, a sophomore at Wentworth College, scored a goal in her team's 3-0 win over UMass-Dartmouth last week. The sophomore has helped her team to a 4-0 start.

 

At MCLA, Hoosac Valley graduate Megan Richardson has three appearances in goals for the TrailBlazers, helping them to a 1-1-1 start this fall. Richardson has a .62 goals against average and a .929 save percentage.

 

Dalton resident and Wahconah High graduate Marisa Sprague has the lone goal for MCLA so far this year. She scored in overtime to give the team a 1-0 win at St. Joseph of Connecticut earlier this fall.

 

MCLA’s women’s soccer team is filled with locals, including Pittsfield’s Aleah Sangiovanni, BArT’s Ciera Dowling, Drury’s Kayla Vivori and Taconic’s Lauren Mangiardi.

 

MCLA opens its MASCAC league schedule on Saturday at home against Bridgewater State.

 

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