High school track roundup: Nashoba girls, Littleton boys take home state championships

Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Athletes from the Nashoba Regional girls' track team pose with the Division 4 state championship banner.
Athletes from the Nashoba Regional girls' track team pose with the Division 4 state championship banner.

Girls' track

Division 4 State Championships: Two relay victories and Caroline Collins victory in the mile propelled Nashoba to the championship in the second day of competition at Westfield State.

The Wolves (68½ points) stretched their margin of victory over Holliston to 8½ points by taking the 4x400-meter relay in 4:04.59. Nashoba's foursome consisted of Erin Farmer, Lucy Rein, Lailee Joyce and Paulie Michel.

Collins, who on Thursday won the meet's 2 mile, continued her shining senior season, taking the mile by more than nine seconds in 5:01.4. Groton-Dunstable's Georgia Brooks (5:18.25) was eighth.

Collins later anchored the 4x800 relay team to victory, in 9:48.34, following Joyce, Ella Rogers and Deirbhile Nagle. Groton-Dunstable (10:06.35) was fourth. Nashoba's 4x100 finished sixth.

Nashoba's Hannah Benoit (5 feet, 4 inches) was third in the high jump, with North Middlesex's Julia Chase and Groton-Dunstable's Allegra Gutermann in a four-way tie for seventh at 5 feet.

Also placing third was Auburn's Isabel Zukowski (33-11¾) in the shot put.

Nashoba's Valerie Michel (16,01) nabbed fifth in the 100. Groton-Dunstable's Hannah Mandell (102-1) was sixth in the javelin.

Division 6 State Championships: Mount Greylock (97) came rolling into Merrimack College from Williamstown and posted a convincing team victory at the championships. outlasting runner-up Hamilton-Wenham by 40 points.

Lunenburg (50) was third, followed by Ayer-Shirley (46), Littleton (45½) and Uxbridge (45).

Helping Ayer-Shirley and Lunenburg was placing 1-2 in the concluding 4x400 relay. Ayer-Shirley prevaile in 4:07.14, with Jordan Kosakowski, Chandra Eli-Johnson, Elizabeth Cruz and Emily Churchill. Sutton was fourth and Littleton sixth.

Uxbridge's Kendall Gilmore (56.79) and Douglas' Abigail Bilodeau (58.69) sped to the top two places in the 400, with Ayer-Shirley's Jordan Kosakowski (1:00.32), Emily Churchill (1:00.37) and Isabel Bresnahan (1:00.37) taking fourth through sixth. Sutton's Vivien Bregman (1:00.74) was seventh.

Littleton's Norah Kobaly prevailed in the javelin with a best throw of 128-3. Maynard's Geovanna Pinto (99-3) was seventh.

Central Mass. runners took five of the eight places in the mile, led by Murdock's Avery Murphy (5:15.26) in third. Oxford's Cameron Davis (5:16.06) was fourth, Millbury's Mila Nikiforow (5:23.81) sixth, Littleton's Erin Regan (5:25.01) seventh and Bromfield's Evelyn Wool (5:25.34) eighth.

Lunenburg's Carli Stanford (12.84) finished third in the 100, with David Prouty's Zoe Barnett (12.90) tied for fifth and Millbury's Ava Lucke (13.17) eighth.

In the long jump, Uxbridge's Kathryn Cahill (16-11½) was third and Tahanto's Brooke Eckelman (16-5¼) sixth, with Littleton's Chabenta Bradshaw (16-4½) and Savannah Liles (15-10½) seventh and eighth. In the high jump, Narragansett's Ashlyn Duplessis placed sixth and Lunenburg's Lilia Baril eighth, both clearing 5 feet.

Ayer-Shirley was second in the 4x100 relay, with Douglas fourth, David Prouty fifth and Uxbridge eighth.

Division 3 State Championships: Westborough (40) came home with eighth place at the championships at Bridgewater State, with Mansfield easily taking the team title with 96 points,

Westborough's Quinn Anderson cleared 5-2 to finish third in the high jump and threw 33-2 to place fourth in the shot put. Teammates Al Regnier (long jump, 15-9¼) and Annabelle Semeter (javelin, 95-3) had eighth-place finishes.

The Rangers also placed seventh in the 4x100 relay.

Athletes and coaches from the Littleton boys' track team pose with the Division 6 state championship banner.
Athletes and coaches from the Littleton boys' track team pose with the Division 6 state championship banner.

Boys' track

Division 6 State Championships: Bona Bradshaw followed up his second-place finish in Thursday's 2 mile with an impressive win in the mile Saturday, helping Littleton tie Amesbury for the championship at Merrimack College. Both finished with 69 points,

Bradshaw blazed to victory in 4:20.60, followed by teammate Timothy Rank (4:26.78) in third. Parker Charter's Henry Jacobsen finished fourth in 4:26.79, and Northbridge's Dylan Reilly was eighth in 4:31.53.

Tahanto's Cordell Holden won the 110-meter hurdles in 15.52. with Narragansett's Jordan Baumann (15.76) third and Leicester's Cooper White (15.90) fourth.

Quaboag's Owen Stevens won the long jump by nearly 10 inches over Atlantis Charter's Thalys Silva, with a best attempt of 23 feet, 4 inches. Stevens (5-10) later took eighth in the high jump, behind Bromfield's Vasilis Psathas (fourth, 6-0) and Littleton's Brian Michaels (seventh, 5-10).

Littleton's Mubeshire Bradshaw (13-6) and Thomas Rank (12-6) went 2-3 in the pole vault, with teammate Ian Dunn (11-0) third and Ayer-Shirley's A.J. Arakelian (10-0) eighth.

Central Mass. was well represented on the podium in the shot put, with Hopedale's Ari Levine (52-5½) second, Lunenburg's Ray Beardmore (49-8) third, Parker Charter's Ethan Dangel (47-3) fifth and Uxbridge's Hunter Schiller (47-2½) sixth.

Ayer-Shirley placed second and fourth in the 400, with Arthur Ribeiro runner-up in 49.89 and Jacob Teo in 50.56. Bromfield's Jack Stahl (50.58), Lunenburg's Cam Begley (50.85) and Quaboag's Camden Williams (50.87) were fifth, seventh and eighth, respectively.

Uxbridge's Cam Caso (11.15) finished fifth in the 100, while Bromfield's Colin Harte (11.28), Littleton's Tyler Castillo (11.33) and Clinton's Gavin Naughton (11.37) were sixth through eighth.

Blackstone-Millville's Ousman Touray (157-8) took fifth in the javelin, with Ayer-Shirley's Thomas Bergin (154-9) sixth and Leicester's Jack Ledbetter (154-1) seventh.

In the 4x800 relay, Littleton, Bromfield and Parker Charter placed third, fourth and fifth. Clinton was second in the 4x100, with Uxbridge fourth and Douglas seventh.

Division 3 State Championships: Strong performances in field events enabled Westborough just one point out of second place at the championships at Bridgewater State.

The Rangers earned 61 points, one behind runner-up Milton. Walpole won the team title with 92.

Westborough remained powerful in the pole vault, collecting 32 of 39 possible points. Alex Chan (13-6), Daniel Velez (13-6), Reese Condon (12-6) and Eli Wawersik (12-6) swept the top four places, and Dylan Hosein and Eric Chang tied for seventh (10-6).

The Rangers added second and fifth places in the shot put, with Seabastian Grillo throwing 52-1½ and Julian Cespedes 48-8½.

Worcester Tech's Wellington Freeman (11.49) finished fifth in the 100, and teammate Cyprian Ojatabu (50.72) came in sixth in the 400.

Shepherd Hill (43.85) took fifth in the 4x100 relay.

Division 4 State Championships: Nashoba's Sawyer O'Riorden cleared 12-6 to win the pole vault, then placed fifth in the 110 hurdles (15.51), helping the Wolves (34 points) finish seventh at the championships at Westfield State.

Wakefield was team champion with 78½ points, three better than Middlesex League rival Burlington.

Auburn's Zach Jackson cleared 6 feet and tied for fourth in the high jump, with Grafton's Caden Ashmore (5-10) tying for seventh. Nashoba's Tristan McDermott (21-1¼) took fifth in the long jump, and Grafton's Calvary Jamoko (20-10) was eighth .

Nashoba finished fourth in the 4x100 relay and collected a point in the 4x800 by placing eighth.

This article originally appeared on Telegram & Gazette: Nashoba girls, Littleton boys take home state track championships

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