Mount Greylock's Goss, Drury's Feliciano Earn Athlete of Week Recognition

This week’s iBerkshires.com/Southwestern Vermont Health Care Athletes of the Week enter the final month of the season with their teams poised to make another deep run in the postseason.

 

The Drury baseball team last year went to the championship game of the Western Massachusetts Class C tournament and the Sweet 16 of the Division 5 State Tournament.

 

This year, the Blue Devils are ranked first in Class C and D5 in the latest in-season power rankings.

 

Sophomore Julian Feliciano is a big reason why.

 

He has backstopped a Drury defense that has allowed 28 runs in 12 games (2.3 runs per game) and leads the team with 16 hits.

 

Feliciano is second among Drury regulars with a batting average of .484 and is fifth in RBIs (11) and second in stolen bases (10).

 

Last week, he drove in a pair of runs in a 9-4 statement win over Monument Mountain, the 13th-ranked team in Division 3. Then he went 3-for-3 with a pair of RBIs to help Drury bounce back from its first loss of the season with an 11-1 win at Smith Academy.

 

The Blue Devils (11-1) play three games at Joe Wolfe Field this week, starting with Berkshire County rivals Taconic on Monday and McCann Tech on Wednesday.

 

The Mount Greylock girls track and field team last spring won its second straight Western Massachusetts title (fourth in six seasons) and a Division 6 State Championship.

 

Katherine Goss was a big part of that success as a junior, claiming the Berkshire County MVP award and medaling in three events at states.

 

This spring, Goss holds the county’s best marks in both hurdles distances and the triple jump. On Thursday, she lowered her county-best times in the 100 hurdles (15.55 seconds) and 400 hurdles (1:06.62), both faster than the times she ran to finish second and fourth in the events last May at Merrimack College.

 

The Wesleyan University commit also leads the county in the triple jump with a mark of 35 feet, 8.5 inches she set in the spring’s first meet in March.

 

This week, the Mounties are scheduled to host Pittsfield and Monument Mountain for dual meets on Friday.

 

The iBerkshires.com Athlete of the Week is sponsored by Southwestern Vermont Health Care.