County's Top Runners, Jumpers, Throwers Compete at Wahconah

DALTON, Mass. – The county’s top track and field stars shone one last time on their home turf Saturday before heading off to the Western Massachusetts and state tournaments over the next couple of weeks.

 

And the athletes designated by the league’s coaches as its most valuable players showed their worth at the Berkshire County Individuals meet at Wahconah Regional High School.

 

Girls season MVPs Amelia Desilets (track), Chase Hoey (field) and Katherine Goss (overall) each won a pair of events at the non-scored competition.

 

On the boys side, overall MVP Payton Shippee won a pair of throws, track MVP Everett Pacheco took the 800-meter and two-mile runs and field MVP Oliver Berkowitz won the long jump and placed second in the triple jump.

 

“It’s an honor, and I feel very grateful to achieve that,” Shippee said of the league’s top individual honor for the season. “That wasn’t really a goal of mine, but the fact we just got it along the way was a blessing.

 

“We’ve been working really hard in December, January, cold days, throwing disc in the snow stuff like that. So it’s great to get these type of achievements.”

 

Goss, who dominated the hurdles this spring for a Mountie team that dominated the dual meet season, said she wasn’t expecting to be picked as the league’s top performer.

 

“It was very exciting,” Goss said of the moment she learned of the award. “I was a bit shocked because there are a lot of good competitors here – amazing athletes. But I was very happy with it.”

 

Goss said those other “amazing athletes” helped push her to excel and helped the Mounties prepare to go for their fourth Western Mass team title in six years next Friday at Mohawk Trail Regional.

 

“[The pressure] pushes us to be better,” she said. “I have some good competitors in hurdles, like [Wahconah’s] Kathryn Perrone and [teammate] Chase Hoey. And them coming up behind me and pushing me gives me a little to fight for.

 

“And we all come out better for it. Without that competition, I don’t think we would be the team we are. I thank all of them.”

 

Goss posted wins in the 100 and 400 hurdles and ran legs on Mount Greylock’s winning 4-by-100 and 4-by-400 relays on Saturday. Hoey won the long jump and triple jump.

 

Monument Mountain’s Desilets won the mile and two mile.

 

Overall, the nine-time defending league champion Mount Greylock girls took first in 10 of 16 events on Saturday.

 

The Mount Greylock boys, who have won the last three county championships and last five Western Mass team titles, got just one individual win on Saturday: Owen Petropulos in the mile.

 

Wahconah’s boys, who lost just one dual meet – by one point, to Mount Greylock – won four events on its new track on Saturday.

 

Wahconah swept the throws behind Shippee winning the javelin and discus and Julius Kablan in the shot put, and Liam Furlong won the 110 hurdles.

 

Aside from Shippee, the day’s one double-winner on the boys side was Taconic’s Elijah Harewood, who took the 100 and 200.

 

Photos from this meet here.

100 meters: 1. Dezerea Powell, PHS, 13.02; 2. Emma Daly, Tac, 13.45; 3. Libby Kurley, HV, 13.67.

200 meters: 1. Maggie Nichols, MG, 26.48; 2. Dezerea Powell, PHS, 27.83; 3. Emma Daly, Tac, 28.03.

400 meters: 1. Arianna Henderson, MG, 1:03.86; 2. Annabelle Coody, MG, 1:04.51; 3. Jane Elliot, Lnx, 1:05.20.

800 meters: 1. Erin Keating, MG, 2:31.97; 2. Elyssa Scrimo, Lnx, 2:31.98; 3. Lily McDermott, MG, 2:32.32.

Mile: 1. Amelia Desilets, MM, 5:30.16; 2. Rae Geddes, MM, 5:31.42; 3. Yasmine Oubtrou, PHS, 5:40.75.

2 mile: 1. Amelia Desilets, MM, 11:28.34; 2. Alice Culver, Lnx, 12:15.98; 3. Nora Schoeny, Lnx, 13:12.10.

100 hurdles: 1. Katherine Goss, MG, 16.15; 2. Chase Hoey, MG, 16.72; 3. Amiracle Tatro, HV, 18.47.

400 hurdles: 1. Katherine Goss, MG, 1:08.13; 2. Coralea Lash-St. John, MG, 1:12.98; 3. Sydney Raymond, MG, 1:23.62.

4-by-100 relay: 1. Mount Greylock (McDermott, Goss, Apotsos, Nichols) 50.93; 2. Monument Mountain, 54.62; 3. Pittsfield, 54.93.

4-by-400 relay: 1. Mount Greylock (McDermott, Goss, Apotsos, Nichols) 4:19.90; 2. Monument Mountain, 4:27.35; 3. Hoosac Valley, 5:03.82.

High jump: 1. Lily Haskins-Vaughan, MM, 5-2; 2. Chase Hoey, MG, 5-0; 3. Madison Powell, MG, 4-6.

Long jump: 1. Chase Hoey, MG, 14-3; 2. Maire Scanlon, MG, 14-1; 3. Caroline Becker, MM, 13-11.5.

Triple jump: 1. Chase Hoey, MG, 30-8.75; 2. Audrey Chagnon, Wah, 30-4; 3. Ellen Muller, PHS, 30-2.75.

Shot put: 1. Hanna Shea, HV, 28-6; 2. Adelyn Furlong, Wah, 27-1.5; 3. Phoebe Barnes, MG, 26-9.25.

Discus: 1. Taylor Garabedian, HV, 106-5; 2. Lily Catelotti, MG, 105-6; 3. Talia Kapiloff, MG, 94-4.

Javelin: 1. Nora Lopez, MG, 113-0; 2. Abby Scialabba, HV, 107-8; 3. Phoebe Barnes, MG, 97-7.

100 meters: 1. Elijah Harewood, Tac, 11.23; 2. Mason Sayers, MG, 11.35; 3. Payton Shippee, Wah, 11.48.

200 meters: 1. Elijah Harewood, Tac, 23.13; 2. Anthony Trapani, Tac, 23.30; 3. Oliver Berkowitz, MM, 23.44.

400 meters: 1. Ian Bridges, Lnx, 52.80; 2. Owen Ames, Lnx, 52.99; 3. Declan Rogers, MG, 53.82.

800 meters: 1. Everett Pacheco, MM, 2:03.23; 2. Knowl Stroud, MG, 2:04.33; 3. Riley Gladu, Wah, 2:09.63.

Mile: 1. Andrew Petropulos, MG, 4:37.66; 2. Benjamin Harwood, Lnx, 4:39.94; 3. Cormac Mathews, Lnx, 4:42.95.

2 mile: 1. Everett Pacheco, MM, 9:39.92; 2. Samuel Geller, Lnx, 10:30.78; 3. Noah Krantz, Tac, 10:33.09.

110 hurdles: 1. Liam Furlong, Wah, 16.51; 2. William Apotsos, MG, 17.31; 3. Dominique Billups, 17.39.

400 hurdles: 1. Andrew Peprah, Tac, 59.39; 2. Liam Furlong, Wah, 59.88; 3. Dominique Billups, PHS, 1:00.55.

4-by-100 relay: 1. Pittsfield (Billups, Klatka, D’Aniello, Robinson) 45.45; 2. Wahconah, DNF.

4-by-400 relay: 1. Monument Mountain (Torrico, Curtis, Pacheco, Scarbro) 3:41.02; 2. Lenox, 3:47.00; 3. Wahconah, 3:48.63.

4-by-800 relay: 1. Lenox (Harwood, Geller, Collins, Mathews) 9:07.91; 2. Taconic, 9:10.84; 3. Wahconah, 9:56.23.

High jump: 1. Elias Robinson, PHS, 6-2; 2. Owen Klatka, PHS, 6-0; 3. Sean Scarbro, MM, 5-10.

Long jump: 1. Oliver Berkowitz, MM, 20-2.75; 2. Elias Robinson, PHS, 20-0.5; 3. Ian Bridges, Lnx, 19-3.75.

Triple jump: 1. Ian Bridges, Lnx, 41-5; 2. Oliver Berkowitz, MM, 41-2.25; 3. Cooper Calvert, Wah, 40-0.5.

Shot put: 1. Julius Kablan, Wah, 46-9.25; 2. Judge Martin, MG, 45-4.5; 3. Robbie Schur, ME, 39-2.

Discus: 1. Payton Shippee, Wah, 160-0; 2. Julius Kablan, Wah, 129-4; 3. Gavin Hetherington, MG, 117-4.

Javelin: 1. Payton Shippee, Wah, 153-2; 2. Judge Martin, MG, 148-7; 3. Ward Bianchi, MG, 132-6.

Mount Greylock: Chase Hoey, Erin Keating, Katherine Goss, Lily Catelotti, Lily McDermott, Maggie Nichols, Nora Lopez, Phoebe Barnes, Rowan Apotsos, Talia Kapiloff.

Hoosac Valley: Abby Scialabba, Hanna Shea, Taylor Garabedian.

Monument Mountain: Amelia Desilets, Lily Haskins-Vaughan, Polly Geddes.

Lenox: Alice Culver, Elyssa Scrimo.

Pittsfield: Dezerea Powell, Yasmine Oubtrou.

Wahconah: Adelyn Furlong, Kathryn Perrone.

Taconic: Emma Daly.

Track MVP: Amelia Desilets, Monument Mountain

Field MVP: Chase Hoey, Mount Greylock

Overall MVP: Katherine Goss, Mount Greylock

Mount Greylock: Andrew Petropulos, Jenner Kittle, Judge Martin, Ollie Swabey, Quinn McDermott, Will Apotsos.

Wahconah: Cooper Calvert, Julius Kablan, Liam Furlong, Lorenzo Lewis, Payton Shippee.

Lenox: Ben Harwood, Cormac Mathews, Ian Bridges, Owen Ames.

Pittsfield: Aidan D’Aniello, Elias Robinson, Owen Klatka.

Taconic: Andrew Peprah, Anthony Trapani, Elijah Harewood.

Monument Mountain: Everett Pacheco, Oliver Berkowitz.

Hoosac Valley: Brandon Miller.

Track MVP: Everett Pacheco, Monument Mountain

Field MVP: Oliver Berkowitz, Monument Mountain

Overall MVP: Payton Shippee, Wahconah.