EAST MONTPELIER — Mount Abraham Union High School junior Lydia Pitts added to her trophy case by winning the girls’ 100-meter hurdles, long jump and triple jump to highlight local athletes’ efforts at Saturday’s Division II state track and field championship meet at U-32 High School.
Also winning events were Eagle senior Finn Clements, who upset favored Jalen Carter of U-32 in the boys’ javelin, and Eagle junior Emma Radler, who outclassed the field in the girls’ pole vault.
For Middlebury, highlights included senior Henry Ganey’s second-place finish in the boys’ 800, while junior Chloe Kane raced to third in the girls’ 100. All six of the Tiger boys’ and girls’ relay teams also finished either second or third, while senior Josh Girard placed in three events and ran on a second-place relay team and freshman Isabel Olson placed in two events and ran on two successful relay teams.
For Vergennes, senior runners Megan Rooney and Sadie Kass and sophomore runner Wade Mullin all placed in individual events, and the boys’ four-by-800-meter relay team, including Mullin, took fourth.
The MUHS girls’ team took fourth with 50 points for the best local team finish, just edging the Eagle girls, who were fifth with 48.5 points. Rooney and Kass supplied the points for the Commodores girls, who were 13th with four points.
Rice (139) romped to the girls’ title, followed by Harwood (68), Hartford (58.5) and then MUHS and Mount Abe in fourth and fifth, respectively.
Host U-32 (195) posted a big win on the boys’ side, with a total that surpassed that of the next three finishers combined: Milton (86), Hartford (51) and Harwood (46). The Tiger boys finished fifth with 39 points, the Eagles were ninth with 23, and the Commodores tied Rice for 11th with six.
GIRLS’ RESULTS:
Local girls’ results and first-place finishers were (personal-best results indicated by PR):
•  100 Meters: 1. Sonia John, Rice, 13.01; 3. Kane, MUHS, 13.27; 4. Megan Townsend, MUHS, 13.48; 10. Trinity Bryant, MUHS, 14.04; 11. Megan Rooney, VUHS, 14.14; 15. Kiana Plouffe, MUHS, 14.69; 17. Emily Pottinger, MUHS, 15.16; 18. Ginny Patz, MUHS, 15.24.
•  200: 1. John, Rice, 26.89. 5. Rooney, VUHS, 28.27; 6. Kane, MUHS, 28.59; 9. Townsend, MUHS, 28.92; 10. Bryant, MUHS, 28.94.
•  400: 1. John, Rice, 1:01.2; 7. Ailey Bosworth, MUHS, 1:05.80; 11. Georgina Mraz, MUHS, 1:08.42.
•  800: 1. Dina John, Rice, 2:28.66; 2. Caroline Kimble, MUHS, 2:30.28; 4. Olson, MUHS, 2:32.14; 5. Kass, VUHS, 2:33.17PR.
•  1,500: 1. Erin Magill, Harwood, 5:08.96; 4. Olson, MUHS, 5:16.26; 12. Katherine Koehler, MUHS, 5:36.7; 14. Kate Oster, MUHS, 5:38.0.
•  3,000: 1. Anneka Williams, Harwood, 11:08.63; 7. Oster, MUHS, 11:58.89 PR; 12. Kate Wallace, MUHS, 13:07.57.
•  100 Hurdles: 1. Pitts, Mt. Abe, 15.98; 17. Annie Lapiner, MUHS, 20.07 PR, MUHS; 22. Elizabeth Siminitus, Mt. Abe, 21.31.
•  Javelin: 1. Zea Macris, Lyndon, 106-05; 5. Vanessa Dykstra, Mt. Abe, 82-06; 12. Robyn Arena, Mt. Abe, 44-04.
•  Pole Vault: 1. Radler, Mt. Abe, 9-0; 4. Lucy Guy, Mt. Abe, 6-6; 5. Abby Perlee, Mt. Abe, 6-6; 6. Mhairi McMurray, Mt. Abe, 6-0.
•  Long Jump: 1. Pitts, Mt. Abe, 15-6.75; 6. Plouffe, MUHS, 14-04.25; 13. Sylvia Vorsteveld, MUHS, 13-2.75; 21. Perlee, Mt. Abe, 12-8.75; 24. Cassondra Dykstra, Mt. Abe, 12-4.25.
•  Triple Jump: 1. Lydia Pitts, Mt. Abe, 35-2; 9. Perlee, Mt. Abe, 28-6.5.
•  4×100 Relay: 1. Rice, 51.5; 2. MUHS, 52.3 (Kane, Plouffe, Bryant, Townsend); 7. VUHS, 57.34 (Munro McLaren, Cedar Winslow, Alyse Beauchemin, Rooney).
•  4×400: 1. Rice, 4:06.30; 2. MUHS, 4:28.28 (Olson, Mraz, Bosworth, Kimble); 8. Mt. Abe, 4:56.01 (C. Dykstra, McMurray, Siminitus, V. Dykstra).
•  4×800: 1. Rice, 10:16.38; 3. MUHS, 10:22.51 (Olson, Koehler, Bosworth, Kimble).
BOYS’ RESULTS:
Local boys’ results and first-place finishers were:
•  100: 1. Carter, U-32, 11.35; 5. Ben Balparda, MUHS, 12.15; 8. Anthony Garner, MUHS, 12.3; 17. Damien Morris, MUHS, 12.66; 18. Tristan Durante, MUHS, 12.90.
•  200: 1. Abayomi Lowe, Hartford, 23.56; 6. Morris, MUHS, 24.46; 9. Balparda, MUHS, 25.34; 12. Ross Carr, Mt. Abe, 25.63; 13. Durante, MUHS, 25.85.
•  400: 1. Carson Bianchi, Milton, 51.39; 5. Girard, MUHS, 54.7; 7. Andrew Raymond, Mt. Abe, 56.22; 8. Carr, Mt. Abe, 56.84.
•  800: 1. Stephen Looke, U-32, 2:01.61, 2. Ganey, MUHS, 2:03.30; 5. Mullin, VUHS, 2:06.9; 9. Ross Crowne, MUHS, 2:12.87; 10. Thomas Maron, MUHS, 2:16.59.
•  1,500: 1. Looke, U-32, 4:21.19; 10. Ganey, MUHS, 4:42.7; 13. Tobias Broucke, MUHS, 4:44.2.
•  3,000: 1. Looke, U-32, 9:13.3; 13. Spencer Hurlburt, VUHS, 10:18.14.
•  300 Hurdles: 1. Alex Warner, U-32, 42.60; 9. Jude Bunch, Mt. Abe, 46.60.
•  Shot Put: 1. Carter, U-32, 42-5; 4. Jackson Counter, Mt. Abe, 39-4.75; 6. Peter Koenig, Mt. Abe, 37-3.75; 8. Derek Jackson, Mt. Abe, 36-6.25; 10. Brandon Cousino, VUHS, 35-5.75; 11. Nanja Horning, MUHS, 34-11.75.
•  Discus: 1. MacKinley Shaffer, U-32, 131-5; 5. Koenig, Mt. Abe, 111-9 PR; 6. Jackson, Mt. Abe, 106-9 PR; 7. Horning, MUHS, 100-6; 9. Nevin Jemison, Mt. Abe, 93-9.
•  Javelin: 1. Clements, Mt. Abe, 155-2; 4. Counter, Mt. Abe, 146-8.
•  Pole Vault: 1. Brandon Racine, Milton, 11-0; 6. Patrick Marcotullio and Oliver Roy, Mt. Abe, 8-6.
•  Long Jump: 1. Dylan Tucker, Hartford, 19-3.75; 5. Girard, MUHS, 18-0; 12. Hunter Heffernan, MUHS, 15-7.25.
•  Triple Jump: 1. Dane Liebermann. U-32, 39-3.25; 5. Girard, MUHS, 37-0.75.
•  4×100: 1. Milton, 46.0; 2. MUHS, 46.6 (Durante, Balparda, Garner, Morris); 9. Mt. Abe, 54.62 (Erik McLysaght, Thomas Carlton, Jemison, William Wright).    
•  4×400: 1. Milton, 3:38.66; 2. MUHS, 3:40.22 (Ganey, Girard, Crowne, Morris).
•  4×800: 1. U-32, 8:30.02; 3, MUHS, 8:39.75 (Crowne, Kraus, Maron, Ganey); 4. VUHS, 8:59.92 (Hurlburt, Erich Reitz, Max Ratti-Bicknell, Mullin).