Mount Greylock Girls Win Back-to-Back State Titles

MEDFORD, Mass. – The Mount Greylock girls track and field team won its second straight Division 6 State Championship, and Monument Mountain’s Everett Pacheco won his third individual state crown of the school year on Sunday at Tufts University.

 

Mount Greylock’s girls got a first-place finish from their 4-by-800 relay team to secure a nearly five-point margin of victory over runner-up Hamilton-Wenham in the team competition.

 

Josephine Bay, Cornelia Swabey, Brenna Lopez and Vera de Jong teamed up to run a time of 10 minutes, 10.38 seconds to finish nine seconds ahead of Hamilton-Wenham in the two-mile relay at the two-day meet.

 

Mount Greylock Sunday also got a second-place finish from Katherine Goss in the 100-meter hurdles to go with the silver in the triple jump and third in the 400 hurdles that she earned on Friday.

 

In the boys meet, Everett Pacheco, who won a cross country title in the fall, completed the 2-mile/mile double in the spring on Sunday with a time of 4:19.16 in the mile. Pacheco outleaned Frontier’s Evan Hudlund at the tape to take the title by a mere third of a second.

 

His two gold medals at the meet helped the Spartans place seventh out of 45 boys teams earning points.

 

Mount Greylock’s boys were the top county finishers with 35 points in a meet won by Ayer Shirley with 71 points.

 

Wahconah’s boys tied for eighth place behind strong performances on Sunday from Cooper Calvert and Lorenzo Lewis.

 

Calvert finished second in the high jump, clearing 6 feet, 4 inches. Lewis was third in the 400 meters (49.66).

 

Lenox’s boys finished 30th in the team standings. On Sunday, Benjamin Harwood placed sixth in the mile (4:19.16) for the Millionaires, matching his finish in Friday’s 2-mile run.

 

Lenox’s girls placed 23rd at the meet.

 

On Sunday, the Millionaires got a fifth-place finish from Sophia Schnackenberg in the high jump (5-0), and a fifth-place showing from its 4-by-800 quartet (10:41.93).

 

Monument Mountain’s girls were 19th after Arabella Calautti on Sunday turned in a sixth-place performance in the high jump (4-10).

 

But the big story again this spring was the Mount Greylock girls.

 

In addition to the win in the 4-by-800, the Mounties closed the meet with a second-place finish in the 4-by-400, where Annabelle Coody, Naelyn Robinson, Coralea Lash-St. John and Rowan Apotsos teamed up to run a time of 4:10.32.

 

In the field, Nora Lopez took a bronze in the javelin with a throw of 110-7.

 

Other point-winners for Mount Greylock on Sunday included Teresa Moresi in the pole vault (fifth, 8-6), Chase Hoey in the high jump (sixth, 4-10) and Apotsos in the 400 (sixth, 1:01.49) and Coody in the javelin (seventh, 99-10).

 

Like the girls, the Mount Greylock boys put up two podium finishes in the relays. Their 4-by-100 and 4-by-800 quartets each placed fifth in the state.