ESSEX — Mount Abraham Union High School junior Lydia Pitts won the girls’ 100-meter hurdles and the Middlebury girls’ four-by-100-meter relay team of Chloe Kane, Kiana Plouffe, Trinity Bryant and Megan Townsend finished first at Saturday’s Essex Invitational, the last meet before this weekend’s state championship.
Mount Abe, MUHS and Vergennes athletes will all compete on Saturday at the Division II championship meet at U-32, with some members of each team almost certain to score points.
This past Saturday Mount Abe’s Finn Clements and Jackson Counter also fared well, finishing second and fifth, respectively, in the boys’ javelin toss in a meet that featured many competitors from all of Vermont’s divisions.
Mount Abe’s Emma Radler took third in the pole vault, equaling the winning height but not winning due to more misses. Tiger runner Henry Ganey earned fourth in the boys’ 800, as did the Tiger boys’ and girls’ 4×800 relay teams.
Local competitors who earned top-20 results on Saturday were:
GIRLS’ RESULTS
•  100: 7. Townsend, MU, 13.25; 8. Kane, MU, 13.43.  
•  200: 7. Kane, MU, 27.41; 9. Plouffe, MU, 27.96; 11. Townsend, MU, 28.14; 15. Bryant, MU, 28.48.
•  800: 9. Isabel Olson, MU, 2:32.94.
•  1,500: 13. Olson, MU, 5:09.51.
•  100 hurdles: 1. Pitts, MA, 15.39.
•  4X100 relay: 1. MU, 50.95 (Kane, Plouffe, Bryant, Townsend).
•  4X400: 8. MU, 4:31.65 (Anderson, Georgina Mraz, Ailey Bosworth, Olson).
•  4X800: 4. MU, 410:12.86 (Anderson, Katherine Koehler, Bosworth, Olson).
•  Pole Vault: 3. Radler, MA, 9-6.
•  Long jump: 6. Pitts, MA, 15-8; 12. Plouffe, 15-0.5.
•  Triple jump: 9. Pitts, MA, 33-1.5. 
•  Javelin: 14. Vanessa Dykstra, MA, 87-3.
BOYS’ RESULTS
Scoring points with top-five finishes for local teams were:
•  200: 13. Damien Morris, MU, 24.32.
•  400: 19. Josh Girard, MU, 55.03.
•  800: 4. Ganey, MU, 2:01.96; 16. Wade Mullin, Vergennes, 2:06.93.
•  1,500: 19. Ross Crowne, MU, 4:28.18.
•  300 hurdles: 13. Jude Bunch, MA, 45.74.
•  4X100 relay: 7. MU, 46.57 (Tristan Durante, Ben Balparda, Anthony Garner, Morris).
•  4X400: 11. MU, 3:43.87 (Ganey, Girard, Crowne, Morris).
•  4X800: 4. MU, 9:09.5 (Crowne, Jakub Kraus, Thomas Maron, Ganey).
•  Long jump: 12. Girard, MU, 19-4.25.
•  Triple jump: 9. Girard, MU, 38-3.5.
•  Shot put: 20. Peter Koenig, MA, 38-8.
•  Javelin: 2. Clements, MA, 157-4; 5. Counter, MA, 152-1.