At the MSTCA Girls Individual Pentathlon junior Adrienne Pascucci broke her own school record in the pentathlon scoring 2921 points.  Her old record set last year was 2717 points.  Pascucci placed fourth overall in the meet out of 58 competitors.  In the meet Pascucci ran the fourth-fastest 800m in school history (2:29.84) and the ninth-best shot put in school history (27'4.5").  Also in the meet, Pascucci ran 9.36 in the 55m hurdles, jumped 4'11.75" in the high jump, and jumped 15'0" in the long jump.  Detailed results are linked below.

At the All-State Meet, the Northampton girls ran the sixth-fastest time in school history to place seventh overall.  The team of Adrienne Pascucci, Alex Dibrindisi, Sophie Sharp and Mia Toffoli ran 4:04.75 and advanced to the New England Championships to be held on Friday.

Earlier in the meet, Pascucci cleared 5'0" in the high jump to place 12th.  For the boys, Alex Sullivan ran 2:34.68 in the 1000m to finish 14th.

All-Time Top-10 Additions
Girls
4x400m - Pascucci, Dibrindisi, Sharp, Toffoli - 6th

The Northampton girls track and field team had the best night in school history Friday placing second in the MIAA Division III Championship with 41 points.  Hingham won the team title.

Leah Tompkins was the lone individual winner as she captured the high jump in 5'2".  Adrienne Pascucci was second in the event, also jumping 5'2", as the duo provided a key 18 team points in just this one event.  Pascucci also captured 5th place in the 55m HH.  Mia Toffoli (6th) and Alex Dibrindisi (8th) both scored individually in the 600m

In the relays, the 4x400 relay team of Pascucci, Dibrindisi, Sophie Sharp and Toffoli ran away from the field to win by over 2 seconds.  This is the third time in the past four years that the Blue Devils have won the 4x4 at the D3 meet. The 4x200 squad of Sharp, Tompkins, Izzy Ness and Catherine Lamond captured 4th place running 1:51.63.

For the boys, Alex Sullivan was the lone individual point scorer for the Blue Devils coming in second in the 1000m to advance to the All-State Meet.  The boys 4x200 team of Noah Jackson, Marcus Neverson, Ben Shulman-Reed and Willis Rayton finished 6th overall.  The boys 4x400 squad of Neverson, Josh Hisrchman, Shulman-Reed and Sullivan came in 8th in 3:38.55.

Northampton results, Jim Sharp's pictures and the Top-10 Additions are below.

Jim Sharp's Pictures

All-Time Top-10 Additions
Girls
High Jump - Tompkins and Pascucci 2nd
600m - Dibrindisi 4th; Brown 6th
4x200 - Sharp, Tompkins, Ness, Lamond 5th
4x400 - Pascucci, Dibrindisi, Sharp, Toffoli 7th

Boys
4x200 -Jackson, Neverson, Shulman-Reed, Rayton 2nd
Shot Put - Sadowski 7th
4x400 - Neverson, Hirschman, Shulman-Reed, Sullivan 7th

In close meets Friday night at Smith College the Northampton Boys and Girls teams placed second at the PVIAC Championships.  The Boys scored 55 points falling just short of Amherst's 57 points.  The East Longmeadow girls won the team title with 83 points as the Blue Devils scored 73 points.

Individual winners for the boys were Sam Coates-Finke (2 Mile), Avi Sheldon (300m) and Alex Sullivan (1000m).  Sullivan set the meet record in winning the 1000m in 2:35.57. Adrienne Pascucci won both the 55m HH and the High Jump for the girls.  The boys 4x400 of Marcus Neverson, Josh Hirschman, Ben Shulman-Reed and Sheldon won the meet as did the girls 4x400 of Pascucci, Alex Dibrindisi, Sophie Sharp and Mia Toffoli.

All of the Northampton relays placed in the top 3 in the meet.  The boys 4x2 of Noah Jackson, R.J. Ramsden, Shulman-Reed and Willis Rayton was 2nd and the 4x8 of Neal Axelrod-Adams, Ryan Dean, Coates-Finke and Sullivan was 3rd.  The girls 4x8 of Joni Sullivan, Winnie Brown, Katie Butler and Mariel Lutz placed 2nd and the 4x2 of Sharp, Leah Tompkins, Izzy Ness and Catherine Lamond captured 3rd.

Ives Fisher also scored for the boys capturing 6th place in the shot put with a personal best throw.  Additional scoring performances for the girls included Toffoli with a 2nd place in the 1000m, Tompkins finishing 2nd in the High Jump, Dibrindisi setting the freshman record to finish 3rd in the 600m, Lutz breaking her own freshman record to place 3rd in the Mile, and Sharp placing 6th in the long jump.

Jim Sharp and Bob Gardner's fantastic pictures from the meet are linked below.  Also below are the complete Northampton results and the All-Time Top-10 Additions.

Bob Gardner's Pictures
Jim Sharp's Pictures


All-Time Top-10 Additions
Girls
55m HH - Pascucci School Record; Tompkins 7th

In the final regular season meet of the year, the Northampton Girls closed off a third consecutive undefeated season with a 76-18 win over Holyoke.  With the win, the Blue Devils won the Pioneer League title.  The girls had 15 personal bests in the meet along with 12 Western Mass qualifiers, 5 D3 Qualifiers and 3 top-10 additions.  The Northampton Boys won a tight meet over Holyoke, 49-46, to finish the regular season 6-3. 10 personal bests highlighted the meet for the boys along with 11 Western Mass qualifiers, 4 D3 qualifiers and 5 top-10 additions.  Northampton results, top-10 additions, along with Bob Gardner and Jim Sharp's pictures are linked below.

Bob Gardner's Pictures
Jim Sharp's Pictures