Mount Greylock Boys, Girls Repeat at Western Mass

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Another year, another pair of Western Massachusetts Championships for the Mount Greylock Regional School track and field program.

 

Katherine Goss won a pair of events and placed third in another on Saturday to lead the Mounties’ past the field by more than 100 points in the regional championship meet.

 

Mount Greylock’s boys, meanwhile, got wins from Rafael Mellow-Bartels, Ward Bianchi and Noah Klompus to finish 35 points ahead of runner-up Frontier.

 

For the boys, it was a fourth straight Western Mass title and seventh since 2018.

 

Mount Greylock’s girls won their third straight title and fifth since 2018.

 

A year after winning the girls crown by 76 points and then graduating a sizable senior class, the Mounties came back stronger than ever, amassing 169.5 points to runner-up Frontier’s 67.

 

Goss said that the team did not know for sure going into the season that it would be able to repeat its dominating performance from a year ago.

 

“We kind of knew we had some really good girls still,” she said. “We’ve always been strong in depth. We’ve always had young people coming in. We knew we would have some good people, still, but it wasn’t gonna be as strong as last year.”

 

On Saturday, Mount Greylock’s girls were stronger than the team that springboarded from a Western Mass title to a Division 6 State Championship in 2024.

 

Goss, who recently was named Berkshire County’s MVP on the girls side, was a big reason why, taking first in the 100 hurdles and the triple jump.

 

She finished third in the 400 hurdles, where she was edged by county rival Kathryn Perrone of Wahconah by .05 seconds. Perrone finished second to South Hadley’s Maggie Crawford, who ran the ninth-fastest time in the event in the commonwealth this season.

 

“It was a little hard having the second event, the 400 hurdles, while it was pouring,” Goss said with a laugh. “I wasn’t super happy with that one. But for the rest of my events, I was very happy with how I did. I felt like I left it all out there in the 100 hurdles and the triple jump.

 

“[The 400 hurdles] was a hard race. I was going against two super fast girls. We were all seeded within half a second of each other. It was a hard race, but we all did pretty good.”

 

Mount Greylock’s girls also got wins from Brenna Lopez in the 2-mile run and Nora Lopez in the javelin. The pair teamed with Vera De Jong and Cornelia Swabey to win the 4-by-800 relay for the Mounties.

 

Mount Greylock’s boys, meanwhile, got a win in the 2-mile run from Rafael Mellow-Bartels to open the meet on the track. Ward Bianchi won the javelin and Noah Klompus won the pole vault after finishing second in the meet last spring.

 

Klompus also placed second in the 200 meters, chasing the other Berkshire County Track and Field MVP, Taconic’s Elijah Harewood.

 

Harewood doubled in the 100 and 200 after winning the latter and placing second in the former at last year’s Western Mass meet.

 

“It was a good race,” Harewood said after winning the 100 in 10.97 seconds. “It’s not a PR, but I’m happy with how it went. It wasn’t the hottest day, but I broke 11 [seconds] in the 100, so I’m happy.

 

“Last week at Wahconah, that was a really nice meet at the Berkshire Individuals. That was a really good meet, really nice conditions.”

 

Harewood last Saturday ran a time of 10.90 seconds to win the 100 at the BCI meet.

 

Other county individuals to win on Saturday in the boys meet included Wahconah’s Lorenzo Lewis in the 400 and Monument Mountain’s Everett Pacheco in the mile.

 

“I thought I could go faster, but I think, given the conditions, the wind and rain and stuff, I didn’t get the time I wanted, but I’m happy with the win,” Pacheco said. “Leading up to it, it’s hard to stay positive and stay motivated and toe the line.

 

“We cleared up a little bit before the race went off, which was nice, but it definitely hurts for sure.”

 

Pacheco, a junior and the reigning Division 3 State Champion in cross country, on Saturday only ran the mile but said he plans to run both the mile and 2-mile at next weekend’s Division 5 State Championships at Westfield State.

 

Berkshire County took nine titles in the girls meet on Saturday.

 

In addition to Mount Greylock’s wins, Monument Mountain took home a pair of golds, from Polly Geddes in the 400 and Amelia Desilets in the mile.

 

Wahconah’s Mia Chaffee won the shot put, and Lenox’s Elyssa Scrimo won the 800.

 

In one sense, the Mount Greylock student-athletes scored the biggest win of the year, finally competing on their own campus after the school district spent years talking about building a track and field complex to serve its largest interscholastic sport.

 

“It meant so much this year to be able to come and compete on our own track and have people come here – especially having Western Mass here, it’s such a big meet,” Goss said. “It’s nice to win on our own track.”

 

Team Scores: 1. Mount Greylock, 169.5 points; 2. Frontier, 67; 3. Pioneer Valley, 49; 5. Lenox, 41; t-6. Pittsfield, 36; 9. Monument Mountain, 32.5; 12. Wahconah, 24; 21. Hoosac Valley, 4; 22. Taconic, 3.

100 meters: 1. Mackenzie Loudon, Southwick, 12.58; 2. Dezerea Powell, Pittsfield, 12.92; 3. Alexandra Lewis, SICS, 13.04; 6. Emma Daly, Taconic, 13.08.

200 meters: 1. Mackenzie Loudon, Southwick, 26.34; 2. Rowan Apotsos, Mount Greylock, 27.01; 3. May Tellier, Belchertown, 27.09; 6. Dezerea Powell, Pittsfield, 27.47.

400 meters: 1. Polly Geddes, Monument Mountain, 1:01.77; 2. Rowan Apotsos, Mount Greylock, 1:02.43; 3. Josie Fosnot, Frontier, 1:02.69; 4. Annabelle Coody, Mount Greylock, 1:03.11; 8. Abby Wood, Wahconah, 1:04.17.

800 meters: 1. Elyssa Scrimo, Lenox, 2:27.28; 2. Izzy Scott, South Hadley, 2:28.48; 3. Rae Geddes, Monument Mountain, 2:28.69.

Mile: 1. Amelia Desilets, Monument Mountain, 5:26.09; 2. Gianna Love, Lenox, 5:29.28; 3. Virginia Krezmien, Mohawk, 5:31.98; 4. Brenna Lopez, Mount Greylock, 5:33.12; 5. Cornelia Swabey, Mount Greylock, 5:38.54.

Two mile: 1. Brenna Lopez, Mount Greylock, 11:43.97; 2. Sylvie Dibartolomeo, Frontier, 11:52.21; 3. Ada Corner, Hampshire, 12:15.55; 4. Josephine Bay, Mount Greylock, 12:20.82; 5. Nora Schoeny, Lenox, 12:45.70; 6. Vera De Jong, Mount Greylock, 12:54.71; 7. Adriana Carasone, Mount Greylock, 12:59.36.

100 hurdles: 1. Katherine Goss, Mount Greylock, 15.38; 2. Maggie Crawford, South Hadley, 16.29; 3. Coralea Lash-St. John, Mount Greylock, 16.31; 7. Madelyn Gaudreau, Mount Greylock, 18.31; 8. Kathryn Perrone, Wahconah, 19.95.

400 hurdles: 1. Maggie Crawford, South Hadley, 1:04.80; 2. Kathryn Perrone, Wahconah, 1:07.36; 3. Katherine Goss, Mount Greylock, 1:07.41; 4. Coralea Lash-St. John, Mount Greylock, 1:09.72; 6. Madelyn Gaudreau, Mount Greylock, 1:12.72; 7. Lauren Powell, Mount Greylock, 1:13.22.

4-by-100 relay: 1. Pioneer Valley, 53.27; 2. Mount Greylock, 53.32; 3. Belchertown, 53.43.

4-by-400 relay: 1. Frontier, 4:22.72; 2. Mount Greylock, 4:22.84; 3. South Hadley, 4:25.40; 4. Monument Mountain, 4:28.32; 5. Hoosac Valley, 4:31.29.

4-by-800 relay: 1. Mount Greylock (De Jong, Swabey, B. Lopez, N. Lopez) 10:30.33; 2. Lenox, 10:32.38; 3. Frontier, 10:42.28; 5. Pittsfield, 11:16.06.

High jump: 1. Louise Flagollet, Pioneer Valley, 5-2; 2. Chase Hoey, Mount Greylock, 5-2; 3. Sophia Schnackenberg, Lenox, 5-0; 4. Madison Powell, Mount Greylock, 4-10; 7. Arabella Calautti, Monument Mountain, 4-8.

Long jump: 1. Fallon Clancy, Belchertown, 16-4.5; 2. Maire Scanlon, Mount Greylock, 15-5; 3. Dezerea Powell, Pittsfield, 15-2.25; 

Triple jump: 1. Katherine Goss, Mount Greylock, 35-5.5; 2. Mackenzie Loudon, Southwick, 34-7; 3. Stella Martinez, South Hadley, 33-4; 8. Maire Scanlon, 31-6.5.

Pole vault: 1. Stellina Moore, Mahar, 9-6; 2. Tessa Burke, Hampshire, 8-6; 3. Elsa Brown, Frontier, 8-6; 4. Teresa Moresi, Mount Greylock, 8-0; t-7. Kayla Miller, Mount Greylock, 7-0; t-7. Sydney Raymond, Mount Greylock, 7-0.

Shot put: 1. Mia Chaffee, Wahconah, 32-3.75; 2. Zoe Ruth Brizan, Pittsfield, 30-7; 3. Lilly Novak, Frontier, 30-6.5; 4. Naelyn Robinson, Mount Greylock, 29-1.75.

Discus: 1. Morgan Raffa, Mohawk, 100-9; 2. Tristan Bliss, Turners Falls, 95-7; 3. Zoe Ruth Brizan, Pittsfield, 92-11; 5. Mia Chaffee, Wahconah, 90-1; 6. Kiera Kristensen, Mount Greylock, 88-8; 8. Karen Awortwe, Pittsfield, 83-4.

Javelin: 1. Nora Lopez, Mount Greylock, 125-3; 2. Natalie Rios, Pioneer Valley, 115-2; 3. Aimee George, South Hadley, 106-8; 4. Mackenzie Valenzuela, Lenox, 102-4; 6. Annabelle Coody, Mount Greylock, 99-5.

Team scores: 1. Mount Greylock, 116 points; 2. Frontier, 81; 3. South Hadley, 59; 4. Wahconah, 58; 5. Pittsfield, 53; 9. Taconic, 31; t-11. Lenox, 21; 15. Monument Mountain, 18; t-23. Mount Everett, 2.

100 meters: 1. Elijah Harewood, Taconic, 10.97; 2. Zaidyn Stovall, SICS, 11.14; 3. Noah Davis, Pope Francis, 11.30; 7. Joylan Tessier, Lenox, 11.52.

200 meters: 1. Elijah Harewood, Taconic, 22.78; 2. Noah Klompus, Mount Greylock, 23.05; 4. Kofi Roberts, Mount Greylock, 23.12; 7. Maxwell Easton, Mount Greylock, 23.64.

400 meters: 1. Lorenzo Lewis, Wahconah, 50.39; 2. Adam Rockicki, Southwick, 50.66; 3. Adrien Pazmandy, Frontier, 52.28; Romeo Yankey, Taconic, 53.15; 7. Owen Ames, Lenox, 53.38; 8. Kofi Roberts, Mount Greylock, 53.40.

800 meters: 1. Nathan Hutchinson, South Hadley, 2:02.16; 2. Charles Dennis, Frontier, 2:02.21; 3. Knowl Stroud, Mount Greylock, 2:03.38; 4. Ezekiel Singer, Mount Greylock, 2:06.46.

Mile: 1. Everett Pacheco, Monument Mountain, 4:21.85; 2. Evan Hedulund, Frontier, 4:32.70; 3. Nathan Hutchinson, South Hadley, 4:33.89; 4. Benjamin Harwood, Lenox, 4:35.86; 5. Cohen Zahn, Pittsfield, 4:44.55; 6. Simon Shin, Mount Greylock, 4:44.55; 7. Rafael Mellow-Bartels, Mount Greylock, 4:46.78.

Two mile: 1. Rafael Mellow-Bartels, Mount Greylock, 10:00.00; 2. Oscar Schiff, Hampshire, 10:10.21; 3. Trevor Sullivan, South Hadley, 10:21.67; 5. Noah Wesley, Wahconah, 10:30.81; 7. Ivan Healey, Lenox, 10:40.14; 8. Autumn Higa, Monument Mountain, 10:44.51.

110 hurdles: 1. Ben Cachiguango, Frontier, 15.13; 2. Mitchell Krasco, Mahar, 15.51; 3. Mason James Youmell, Greenfield, 15.81; 6. William Apotsos, Mount Greylock, 16.88; 7. Dominique Billups, Pittsfield, 17.13.

400 hurdles: 1. Ben Cachiguango, Frontier, 56.86; 2. Mason James Youmell, Greenfield, 58.39; 3. Adam Rokicki, Southwick, 58.53; 6. William Apotsos, Mount Greylock, 1:01.15; 8. Dominique Billups, Pittsfield, 1:02.44.

4-by-100 relay: 1. Greenfield, 45.05; 2. Sci-Tech, 45.29; 3. Mount Greylock, 45.30; 4. Wahconah, 45.46; 8. Pittsfield, 47.48.

4-by-400 relay: 1. Pittsfield (Anwomeah, D’Aniello, Ezan, Klatka) 3:34.03; 2. Wahconah, 3:38.50; 3. Frontier, 3:38.68; 5. Mount Greylock, 3:41.61; 6. Taconic, 3:44.13.

4-by-800 relay: 1. Frontier, 8:39.82; 2. Mount Greylock, 8:49.66; 3. Belchertown, 8:53.49; 5. Lenox, 9:14.48; 7. PIttsfield, 9:15.91; 8. Wahconah, 9:34.18.

High jump: 1. Chay Mojallali, Mohawk Trail, 6-4; 2. Owen Klatka, Pittsfield, 6-4; 3. Cooper Calvert, Wahconah, 6-2; 4. Martin Boua, Taconic, 5-10.

Long jump: 1. Julius Lowe-Wannamaker, Sci-Tech, 21-2.75; 2. Cooper Calvert, Wahconah, 20-1.5; 3. Samseedy Touray, Pittsfield, 19-6.75; 5. Aidan D’Aniello, Pittsfield, 19-2.5; 6. Siddy Culbreth, Monument Mountain, 19-2; 8. Elias Robinson, Pittsfield, 18-11.75.

Triple jump: 1. Mitchell Krasco, Mahar, 44-1.75; 2. Cooper Calvert, Wahconah, 41-7.25; 3. William Apotsos, Mount Greylock, 41-2; 5. Siddy Culbreth, 40-7; 6. Samseedy Touray, Pittsfield, 40-6.25; 7. Amos Ezan, Pittsfield, 39-4.

Pole vault: 1. Noah Klompus, Mount Greylock, 12-0; 2. Adrien Pazmandy, Frontier, 11-6; 3. Mason James Youmell, Greenfield, 11-6; 4. Gavin Hetherington, Mount Greylock, 11-0; 5. Nathan Gill, MG, 10-6.

Shot put: 1. Nicholas Leblanc, Athol, 44-3; 2. Daryn Buor, SICS, 41-5.5; 3. Dawson Reber, Lenox, 40-1.5; 6. Gavin Hetherington, Mount Greylock, 37-5; 7. Robbie Schur, Mount Everett, 36-11.25; 8. Aldy Badolo, Pittsfield, 35-11.5.

Discus: 1. Nicholas Leblanc, Athol, 156-9; 2. Gavin Hetherington, Mount Greylock, 147-10; 3. Julius Kablan, Wahconah, 134-2; 5. Thomas Warren, Mount Greylock, 127-11; 6. Aldy Badolo, Pittsfield, 117-10.

Javelin: 1. Ward Bianchi, Mount Greylock, 148-10; 2. Jack Laurie, Greenfield, 141-6; 3. Julian Adams, Frontier, 138-5; 4. James Smith, Pittsfield, 137-5; 7. Colton Jennings, Wahconah, 129-7.