Mount Greylock Regional School graduate Kate Swann capped her college cross country career last month by leading Williams College a second-place finish at the NCAA Division III National Championships in South Carolina.

 

Swann, a captain on the Williams squad this fall, posted a time of 21 minutes, 41 seconds on the 6-kilometer course to earn all-America honors as an individual.

 

Williams' team finished with 106 points to finish behind DIII Champion New York University with 79 points.

 

"It was a really, really wonderful day," Swann told Williams' sports information office. "It was a really gritty race for all of us. Pushing hard, working for everyone out there, and giving it all we had. It was really rewarding to see that."

 

Williams' women placed first in every meet they ran leading up to the season-ending national championship race, including the New England Small College Athletic Conference Championship and the NCAA Regional Championship at St. Lawrence University.

 

Swann was seventh at the qualifier for the nationals.

 

At the Division I regionals, Pittsfield High graduate Kellie Harrington competed with Stonehill College, which placed 32nd in the Northeast.

 

Also running in Hopkinton, N.H., at the Northeast Regional was Wahconah grad Jocelyn Summers, a senior at St. Michael's College who ran a personal record time of 25:50 and helped the Purple Knights place 10th out of 20 teams in Division II at the event.

 

Back at the DII Mideast Regional at St. Lawrence, Vassar College first-year runner Rafael Mellow-Bartels (Mount Greylock) helped the Brewers run to a ninth-place finish out of 26 men's teams scoring at the event. Mellow-Bartels placed 78th in the field with a time of 27:29.

 

His fellow former-Mountie, Framingham State senior Parker Winters, finished his year as the fourth-fastest Ram at the NCAA DIII East Regional. Earlier in the season, he helped Framingham State finish fourth in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships.

 

And at Division I Marist, Lenox Memorial alumnus Dennis Love, a junior at Marist College, ran for the Foxes in their 10th-place finish at the IC4A Championships at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City in October.

 

On the gridiron, Pittsfield High graduate Kieran Coscia played in seven games with five starts this fall as a senior at Bucknell University, helping the FCS Bison to a 5-7 record. Bucknell had the second-best passing offense and the fourth-highest scoring offense in the Patriot League.

 

Wahconah's West Dews appeared in five games and was credited with three tackles this fall at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he helped the Engineers finish 8-3 this fall.

 

No local football products helped their team go farther this fall than Louis Rhodes (Pittsfield) and Judge Martin (Drury/Mount Greylock), a senior and sophomore, respectively, at Springfield College. Rhodes played in five games, and Martin saw the field in three games as the Pride went 9-3 and reached the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament.

 

Lucas Pickard (Wahconah), a junior tight end at Westfield State, played in seven games this fall for the Owls, who went 3-7.

 

In what the rest of the world calls football, several Berkshire County alums made a splash this fall.

 

Pittsfield High's Gustavo de Oliveira eanred Rookie of the Year honors in the MASCAC in his first year at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. de Oliveira led the Trailblazers with seven goal, including four in a game against Framingham State. 

 

He was joined in North Adams this fall by fellow former Generals Daniel Mosquera and Kyle Cardoso, also first-year collegians, and Brandon Balcazar, a sophomore. Cardoso had two goals and an assist.

 

MCLA first-year Jason Sanchez (BArT Charter), junior Mateo Phillips (Lenox), first-years Andres Toapanta and Mario Bonilla (Taconic), junior Jack Cooper (McCann Tech) and senior Michael Harris (McCann Tech) all helped the Blazers go 3-12. Harris appeared in two games in goal and made 11 saves.

 

Staying in the MASCAC, Mass Maritime junior Brody Calvert (Wahconah) earned his third selection to the all-league team after scoring a career-high 16 goals, including five game-winners. He scored twice in a 4-1 win over Framingham State whent he Buccaneers set a program winner for most wins in a season; they ended up 11-5-3 after falling to Bridgewater State, 1-0, in the MASCAC Championship Game.

 

Drury's Kayla McGrath appeared in 14 games and had three goals and an assist as a senior at Springfield College this fall. She helped the Pride go 11-9 and reach the final of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference tournament. McGrath came off the bench to score a goal in a conference tournament win over Coast Guard.

 

Salem State senior Hudah Ngoy Nkulu (Mount Everett) played in 15 games for the Vikings, who went 8-7-3 overall and 2-0-1 down the stretch this fall.

 

On the volleyball court, Tufts University sophomore Celina Savage (Mount Greylock) played in 11 matches this fall for the Jumbos (24-6), who won a NESCAC title and advanced to the finals of their NCAA Divisiion III Regional.

 

Wahconha's McKenzie LaBier, a junior at Longmeadow's Bay Path University, played in 20 matches for the Wildcats this fall, finishing fourth on the team in blocks per set with .37 and helping the team go 13-9.

 

MCLA senior Elizabeth Brown (Lee) earned all-MASCAC honors after tying for the team lead in kills (221), a mark that was good for sixth in the league. Brown also reached the 1,000-dig plateau this season.

 

Her fellow former Wildcat MaKayla Schuerer appeared in 23 matches for the 16-9 Trailblazers. Wahconah grad Sasha Fyfe, an MCLA sophomore, had recorded 21 aces, fifth on the team, in 21 matches.

 

The MCLA men's golf team finished fourth out of seven teams at this fall's MASCAC Championships, where Frank Field (Hoosac Valley) finished 18th in the field of 35 golfers.

 

Wahconah's Patrick McLaughlin, a sophomore at Skidmore College, finished the fall portion of the schedule by placing seventh as an individual and helping the Thoroughbreds finish third out of 17 teams at the Skidmore Fall Invitational. McLaughlin finished the three-round event at even par and earned the Liberty League's Performer of the Week recognition in the process.

 

Former Monument Mountain star Dion Brown is off to a hot start with his third Division I team.

 

Brown, a senior, has a second-best 12.4 points per game and a team-best 6.9 rebounds per game for the 6-1 St. Louis Billikens. St. Louis took its first loss over the holiday weekend against Stanford. It is at Loyola Maryomount on Tuesday night in a game that will be telecast on ESPN+.

 

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