WMass D2 Track Preview: Eleven Recorder Area athletes enter as top seed in their events
Published: 05-22-2025 5:18 PM |
The track and field postseason has arrived.
The top athletes in the area will travel to Williamstown on Saturday to compete in the Western Mass. Div. 2 Track and Field Championship at Mount Greylock High School. The meet is set to begin at 9:30 a.m.
A number of Recorder Area athletes enter as the favorites to hoist individual titles. As expected after a pair of unbeaten seasons that saw it capture the Intercounty League title on both the boys and girls side, Frontier leads the way with five athletes entering with the top performance in their event.
Redhawk Ben Cachiguango enters Saturday with the top time in the boys 110 hurdles (15.29 seconds), Adrien Pazmandy has the top leap in pole vault (12-6), Lilly Novak had the top toss in the girls shot put (113-0), Evan Hedlund produced the top time in the 2 mile (9:47.29) while Charles Dennis is the top seed in the boys 800 (2:02.39). Pazmandy is the defending champ in pole vault.
Greenfield has a pair of athletes seeded at the top in their events. Nina St. Clair blazed through the 200 in a time of 25.74 and is the top seed in the event on Saturday. Mason Youmell is the top seed in the 400 hurdles with a run of 56.9 seconds, with Cachiguango right behind him with a run of 56.94.
Athol’s Nick Leblanc is the top seed in the boys shot (46-5.75) and discus (166-1). Leblanc is well ahead in both events, with his shot toss four feet better than the second seed and his discus throw nearly 20 feet over the second seed.
Pioneer’s Sahana Heilman has the top seed in the girls long jump (16-6) while Mahar’s Mitchell Krasco is the favorite in the triple jump (44-10), an event he won last year. Fellow Senator Stellina Moore is the top seed in the girls pole vault with a height of 9-6, with Frontier’s Elsa Brown entering in second (8-6). Moore and Brown finished 1-2 in the event last year, Moore the defending champion.
Plenty of other Recorder Area athletes will be in the mix for medals.
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On the boys side, Youmell has the third best leap in the pole vault (11-6) and in the boys javelin, Greenfield Jack Laurie (141-3), Athol’s Ethan Goodwin (138-8) and Lebalnc (138-0) all enter as top five seeds. Mohawk Trail’s Chay Mojallali, coming off a knee injury, is the defending champion in the high jump after breaking a Warrior school record with a height of 6-6 last year to take home a Western Mass. title. The senior has the third best jump heading into Saturday of 6-4. Pioneer’s Carter Berthiaume has the fourth best jump going in (6-0).
On the track, Mohawk Trail’s Tanner Biagini is in the top heat of the 200 (23.54), Hedlund has the second fastest time in the mile (4:25.31) while Krasco (15.54) and Youmell (15.94) will be in the mix with Cachiguango in the 110 hurdles. Krasco is the defending champ in the event. Laurie is tied for third fastest time in the 100 (11.14) while Pazmandy (52.04), Mahar’s Matheiu Soucy (51.74) and Redhawk Ian Paciorek (51.74) are in the top heat of the 400.
On the girls side, St. Clair (33-4.25) and Frontier’s Hannah Davis (33-1.75) enter Saturday with top five seeds in the triple jump. Novak is ranked second in the shot put (32-1.5) while Mohawk Trail’s Morgan Raffa is second to Novak in the discus (104-11).
Pioneer’s Natalie Rios won the javelin last year and is currently second in the seeding (117-1), trailing Greylock’s Nora Lope (119-9). Raffa is seeded third (116-1) while Frontier’s Bailey Cusson is seeded fifth (101-11) in the event. Pioneer’s Louise Flagollet enters as the No. 2 seed in the high jump (5-4.25) while Redhawk Maia Christensen is seeded fifth (5-2).
On the track, Frontier’s Sylvie DiBartolomeo is the No. 3 seed in the 2 mile (12:06.30) and Pioneer’s Emmanuelle Flagollet is in the top heat of the 400 hurdles (1:10.04). Watch for Heilman (16.35) and Davis (16.68) who have top six times in the 100 hurdles, Heilman with the second fastest time and Davis sixth.
Turners Falls’ Jakhia Williams enters with the fifth fastest time in the 100 (12.94), Mohawk Trail’s Anya Read is seeded fifth in the 800 (2:32.50) while Redhawk Josie Fosnot (1:02.70) and Louise Flagollet (1;00.89) are in the top heat of the 400.
In the boys relays, Greenfield comes in as the No. 3 seed in the 4x100 (44.94) while Frontier is second in the 4x400 (3:36.75). In the girls relays, Mohawk Trail is seeded third in the 4x800, Frontier is fifth in the 4x800 (10:45.15), Pioneer is seeded second in the 4x100 (51.72) and Frontier is seeded thrid in the 4x400 (4:26.02).