NORTHFIELD — Mount Abraham Union High School junior Lydia Pitts won three times and Middlebury senior Henry Ganey won once to highlight local athletes’ efforts at Saturday’s indoor track and field Division II championship meet at Norwich University.
Pitts swept the girls’ 55-meter hurdles, long jump and triple jump for the second straight year, although she came up just short of her 2016 D-II record-setting marks in the two jumping events. However, Pitts did set two new marks during the course of the season, lowering her 55 hurdles record to 8.83 seconds on Jan. 2 and extending her triple jump standard to 36 feet, one-half inch on Jan. 14.
Ganey won the boys’ 600-meter race, and other Tiger athletes also fared well: junior Chloe Kane earned second- and third-place finishes in girls’ sprinting events, and senior Ross Crown was second in the boys’ 1,600.
Leading the Vergennes contingent were two fourth-place finishers, senior Sadie Kass in the girls’ 1,000 and sophomore Wade Mullin in the boys’ 600.
GIRLS’ RESULTS:
The D-II girls’ winners and local finishers Saturday’s meet at Norwich were: 
•  55 Meter Dash: 1. Sonia John, 7.38, Rice; 2. Kane, 7.58, MUHS; 7. Megan Rooney, 7.97, VUHS; 8. Trinity Bryant, 7.98, MUHS.
•  300 Meters: 1. Sonia John, 42.59, Rice; 3. Kane, 46.05, MUHS; 7. Trinity Bryant, 47.16, MUHS; 9. Kiana Plouffe, 48.79, MUHS; 21. Virginia Patz, 50.64, MUHS; 22. Alyse Beauchemin, 50.94,VUHS.
•  1,000 Meters: 1. Izzy Giesing, 3:11.18, Oxbow; 4. Kass, 3:32.53, VUHS; 17. Ashley Cray, 3:59.93, VUHS.
•  55m Hurdles: 1. Pitts, 8.87, Mt. Abe.
•  4×200 Relay: 1. Rice, 1:58.23.5; VUHS, 2:03.85 (Munro McLaren, Alyse Beauchemin, Sadie Kass, Megan Rooney).
•  Pole Vault: 1. Sophia Rampone, 8-06, Fair Haven; 2. Abby Perlee, 7-06, Mt. Abe.
•  Long Jump: 1. Pitts, 16-11, Mt. Abe; 4. Kiana Plouffe, 15-01.5, MUHS.
•  Triple Jump: 1. Pitts, 35-05, Mt. Abe; 7. Perlee, 29-07, Mt. Abe.
BOYS’ RESULTS
•  300 Meters: 1. Seth Beard, 37.99, Harwood; 6. Damien Morris, 40.42, MUHS; 11. Ganey, 41.22, MUHS; 20. Max Ratti-Bicknell, 42.27, VUHS.
•  600 Meters: 1. Ganey, 1:28.65, MUHS; 4. Mullin, 1:34.07, VUHS; 5. Ratti-Bicknell, 1:34.09, VUHS.
•  1,000 Meters: 1. Mike Ferro, 2:52.72, Milton; 19. Aidan May, 3:23.08, Mt. Abe.
•  1,600 Meters: 1. Isaac Kaplan, 4:52.47, Randolph; 2. Ross Crowne, 4:59.41, MUHS; 9. Spencer Hurlburt, 5:27.97, VUHS; 11. May, 5:30.75, Mt. Abe.
•  Long Jump: 1. Owen Pelletier, 21-00.75, Rivendell; 8. Ratti-Bicknell, 16-11.5,VUHS.   THE VERGENNES UNION High School indoor track and field team takes a break together at the Division II championship meet in Northfield Saturday.
Photo courtesy of Kirsten Pitts