EAST MONTPELIER — With Mount Abraham Union High School sophomore Lydia Pitts posting three of the victories, Addison County athletes combined for 11 event wins at Saturday’s Division II track and field championships, hosted by U-32 High School.
Middlebury fared best as a team, finishing third in both the girls’ and boys’ competitions and winning a total of seven events, including individual golds by senior high jumper Hannah Buttolph, senior runner David Dregallo and junior runner Henry Ganey, plus two relay wins each by the girls’ and boys’ teams.
Buoyed by wins from Pitts and sophomore pole-vaulter Emma Radler, the Eagle girls took fourth, while the Eagle boys were sixth.
Vergennes got points from junior runner Caroline Johnston and the boys’ four-by-800-meter relay team of Quinn D’Andrea, Spencer Hurlburt, Zeke Palmer and Wade Mullin. The Commodore girls were 12th, and the VUHS boys were 11th.
U-32 won both the girls’ and boys’ team competitions. The girls’ scores were U-32, 106; Rice, 101; MUHS, 66; Mount Abe, 42; Lyndon, 40; Windsor, 38; Missisquoi, 30; Hartford, 27; Milton, 17; Burr and Burton, 14; Fair Haven 12; and VUHS, 4.
The boys’ scores were U-32, 163; Lyndon, 111; MUHS, 72; Missisquoi, 57; Harwood, 52; Mount Abe, 34; Milton, 30; Hartford, 26; Windsor, 7; Fair Haven 3; and VUHS, 2.
Pitts won the 100-meter hurdles in 16.22; the long jump in 16 feet, three inches; and the triple jump in 34 feet, 11.75 inches, while Radler won the pole vault after clearing nine feet even.
Buttolph repeated as the D-II high jump champion at 5’-2”. In the relays, the Tiger team of Chloe Kane, Gretta Groves, Kiana Plouffe and Megan Townsend won the 4×100 in 51.70, and the quartet of Helen Anderson, Ailey Bosworth, Katherine Koehler and Caroline Kimble claimed the 4×400 title in 10:13.32.
On the boys’ side, Ganey won the 800 in 2:03.28, and Dregallo prevailed in the 3,000 in 9:23.29. In the 4×400, Josh Girard, Ganey, James Whitley, and Wyatt Norris won in 3:37.56, and in the 4×800, Whitley, Ross Crowne, Haven Tate and Matthew Ferguson won in 8:41.71.
Earning second-place finishes for the Tigers were Norris, Townsend and Kane, and Julia Vorsteveld picked up an individual third.
   CAROLINE JOHNSTON OF Vergennes Union High School gets off to a quick start in the 400 meters and claimed fourth place. Photo by Kirsten Pitt
sEagle Jackson Counter scored a second and a fourth in throwing events, while Andrea Rinaldi and Finn Clements earned third-place finishes, with Rinaldi tacking on a fifth-place effort.
GIRLS’ RESULTS
The winners and local placers in girls’ events were:
•  100 meters: 1. Sonia John, 12.67; 2. Townsend, 13.19, MUHS; 11. Plouffe, 14.01, MUHS; 13. Megan Rooney, 14.06, VUHS; 16. Groves, 14.41, MUHS.
•  200: 1. John, 26.07, Rice; 2. Kane, 27.49, MUHS; 6. Townsend, 28.19, MUHS; 10. Rooney, 29.02, VUHS; 11. Johnston, 29.03, VUHS.
•  400: 1. John, 59.45, Rice; 4. Johnston, 1:03.70, VUHS; 5. Anderson, 1:03.79, MUHS.
•  800: 1. Rena Schwartz, 2:20.85, U-32; 5. Kimble, 2:30.56, MUHS; 8. Sadie Kass, 2:37.89, VUHS; 15. Bosworth, 2:46.79, MUHS.
•  1500: 1. Schwartz, 4:58.24, U-32; 7. Vorsteveld, 5:21.51, MUHS.
•  3000: 1. Schwartz, 10:57.26, U-32; 9. Sophie Marks, 12:54.82, MUHS; 10. Koehler, 13:17.34, MUHS.
•  100 Hurdles: 1. Pitts, 16.22, Mt. Abe; 19. Elizabeth Siminitus, 21.10, Mt. Abe.
•  4×100 Relay:1. MUHS (Kane, Groves, Plouffe, Townsend), 51.70.
•  4×400 Relay: 1. Rice, 4:12.73: 3. MUHS (Kimble, Buttolph, Anderson, Bosworth), 4:18.64.
•  4×800 Relay: 1. MUHS (Anderson, Bosworth, Koehler, Kimble), 10:13.32: 8. Mt. Abe (Macie Kittredge, Delaynah Leavitt, Isabel Lucarelli, Mhairi McMurray), 12:14.43.
•  Javelin: 1. Katey Comstock, 110-07, Windsor; 11. Vanessa Dykstra, 80-05, Mt. Abe.
•  High Jump: 1. Buttolph, 5-2, MUHS.
•  Pole Vault: 1. Radler, 9-0, Mt. Abe; 5. Abby Perlee, 7-6, Mt. Abe.
•  Long Jump: 1. Pitts, 16-3, Mt. Abe; 5. Plouffe, 15-1, MUHS; 6. Buttolph, 14-09.25, MUHS; 17. Perlee, 13-8.25, Mt. Abe; 27. Vanessa Dykstra, 12-0.75, Mt. Abe.
•  Triple Jump: 1. Pitts, 34-11.75, Mt. Abe; 3. Vorsteveld, 32-4, MUHS; 8. Perlee, 29-10.75, Mt. Abe.
   TIGER SENIOR HAVEN Tate takes off on the third leg of the 4×800 after taking the baton from junior Ross Crowne. MUHS won the race. Photo by Terry Norris
The winners and local placers in boys’ events were:
BOYS’ RESULTS
•  100: 1. Jalen Carter, 11.21, U-32; 3. Andrea Rinaldi, 11.74, Mt. Abe; 15. Ethan Venman, 12.86, Mt. Abe.
•  200: 1. Carter, 23.24, U-32; 3. Norris, 23.71, MUHS; 5. Rinaldi, 24.18, Mt. Abe; 11. Damien Morris, 25.18, MUHS; 14. Nikhil Plouffe, 25.44, MUHS.
•  400: 1. Carson Bianchi, 52.06, Milton; 2. Norris, 52.82, MUHS; 5. Andrew Raymond, 53.97, Mt. Abe; 6. Plouffe, 55.89, MUHS.
•  800: 1. Ganey, 2:03.28, MUHS; 6. Tate, 2:11.84, MUHS; 7. Ferguson, 2:13.61, MUHS; 10. Wade Mullin, 2:20.02, VUHS.
•  3000: 1. Dregallo, 9:23.29, MUHS; 5. Crowne, 9:40.73, MUHS; 7. Willem Landis, 9:53.20, MUHS; 10. Tobias Broucke, 9:58.46, MUHS; 14. Zeke Palmer, 10:10.25, VUHS; 16. Spencer Hurlburt, 10:19.79, VUHS; 19. Julian Schmitt, 10:32.93, MUHS.
•  110 Hurdles: 1. Brian Ntaban, 15.71, Lyndon; 7. Julian Bunch, 19.07, Mt. Abe.
•  300 Hurdles: 1. Ntaban, 42.30, Lyndon; 4. Julian Bunch, 44.67, Mt. Abe; 11. Garrett Troumbley, 47.71, MUHS.
•  4×100 Relay: 1. Lyndon, 47.18; 2. MUHS (Tristan Durante, Ben Balparda, Troumbley, Morris), 48.09.
•  4×400 Relay: 1. MUHS (Girard, Ganey, Whitley, Norris), 3:37.56; 7. Mt. Abe (Ross Carr, Igor Grecmal, Nevin Jemison,
Raymond), 4:03.72.
•  4×800 Relay: 1. MUHS (Whitley, Crowne, Tate, Ferguson), 8:41.71; 5. VUHS, 9:06.83.
•  Shot Put: 1. Morgan Rainville, 45-0, Missisquoi; 2. Jackson Counter, 41-4, Mt. Abe; 5. Peter Koenig, 37-11, Mt. Abe; 8. Derek Jackson and Rinaldi, 35-1.5, Mt. Abe.
•  Discus: 1. MacKinley Shaffer, 119-6, U-32; 5. Nanja Horning, 105-3, MUHS; 6. Josh Carr, 103-2, Milton; 7. Andrew Cloutier, 97-7, Mt. Abe.
•  Javelin: 1. Travvis Ferguson, 172-5, Lyndon; 3. Finn Clements, 152-11, Mt. Abe; 4. Jackson Counter, 143-10, Mt. Abe; 5. Chris Grier, 143-0, MUHS.
•  Long Jump: 1. Hunter Tardy, 20-5, Missisquoi; 8. Girard, 17-2.25, MUHS; 10. Rinaldi, 17-0, Mt. Abe; 14. Grecmal, 15-1.50, Mt. Abe.
•  Triple Jump: 1. Ferguson, 41-11.50, Lyndon; 5. Girard, 36-6.75, MUHS.
   SENIOR WYATT NORRIS begins the final leg of the 4×400 relay as James Whitley steps off the U-32 track after completing the third leg. The Tigers won the race over the host team by nearly nine seconds. Photo by Terry Norris