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Brent Graham broke the school record in the javelin against Minnechaug on Monday.
The Northampton Girls Track and Field team moved to 7-0 on the season with a 91-54 win over Minnechaug.  The boys fell to 2-3 after Minnechaug defeated the Blue Devils 79-66. The highlight of the afternoon was Senior Brent Graham setting a new boys javelin school record after throwing 155'0".

Adrienne Pascucci won three events for the girls and Leah Tompkins captured two.  Sam Coates-Finke was the only multiple event winner for the Blue Devils on the boys side.  

Complete Northampton results, Jim Sharp and Ken Wanar's pictures, Rick George's Videos and all-time top-10 additions are linked below.  

Ken Wanar's Pictures
Jim Sharp's Pictures
Rick George's Videos

Complete Meet Results

All-Time Top-10 Additions
Girls 400m Hurdles – Leah Tompkins 4th; Bailey Aaron 10th
High Jump – Leah Tompkins 6th
Javelin – Izzy Ness 6th
400m – Alex Dibrindisi 6th; Khaila Ramirez 7th
Pole Vault – Izzy Reynolds, Alex Dibrindisi 8thBoysJavelin - Brent Graham School Record400m Hurdles - Neal Axelrod-Adams 3rd

 
 
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Adrienne Pascucci won four events including the 100m Hurdles against Southwick and Westfield.
The Northampton girls returned to action after April Vacation with wins over Southwick and Westfield.  The girls scored 95 points to 49 for Westfield and 37 for Southwick.  Junior Adrienne Pascucci won four events (Pole Vault, Long Jump, 100m Hurdles, 400m hurdles) and Leah Tompkins won two events (High Jump, 200m) to pace the Blue Devils. The 4x1 and 4x4 teams also won convincing victories in the meet.  Northampton results, Bob Gardner and Jim Sharp's pictures and top-10 additions are below.

Bob Gardner's Pictures
Jim Sharp's Pictures

All-Time Top-10 Additions
Pole Vault – Adrienne Pascucci 5th; Alex Dibrindisi 7th
High Jump – Leah Tompkins 6th
Javelin – Izzy Ness 6th; Maggie Mahoney 9th

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In the first home meet the Northampton girls defeated New Leadership and Sabis to move to 4-0 on the season.  Leah Tompkins (high jump, 200m, 4x100m), Mariel Lutz (800m, 2 Mile), Katie Butler (400m Hurdles, 4x400m), and Khaila Ramirez (pole vault, 4x400m) all won multiple events for Northampton.  Izzy Ness (javelin) and Sophie Sharp (triple jump) set new freshmen class records in the meet.  Complete Northampton results, top-10 additions and Jim Sharp's pictures are linked below.

Jim Sharp's Pictures

All-Time Top-10 Additions 
400m Hurdles – Katie Butler 6th
High Jump – Leah Tompkins 6th
400m – Alex Dibrindisi 6th
Pole Vault – Rachel Leader, Khaila Ramirez 7th
Triple Jump – Sophie Sharp 9th

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The Northampton girls moved to 2-0 on the young season with an 88-57 victory at Longmeadow.  Adrienne Pascucci won all four of her events and Sophie Sharp added two wins.  Sharp improved on her freshman record in the triple jump.  Maggie Mahoney (javelin) and Mariel Lutz (1 mile) also established new Northampton freshman marks.  Complete Northampton results, Jim Sharp's pictures and top-10 additions are below.

Jim Sharp's Pictures

All-Time Top-10 Additions
400m Hurdles - Winnie Brown 5th
Triple Jump - Sophie Sharp 10th
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Sophie Sharp and the Blue Devils 4x4 ran the eighth-fastest time in school history at the New England Championships.
Closing out the indoor track and field season, the Northampton girls 4x400m relay ran 4:06.82 to place 14th at the New England Championships.  The team of Adrienne Pascucci, Alex Dibrindisi, Sophie Sharp, and Mia Toffoli ran the eighth-best time in school history.

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The Girls Team with the State Runner-Up Trophy after placing second in the Division III Meet.
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
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Adrienne Pascucci set the school record while winning the 55m HH at the PVIAC Championships. She also won the high jump and ran on the winning 4x4 squad.
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
1 Mile - Lutz 2nd
Shot Put - MacDonald 3rd
600m - Dibrindisi 4th
4x200 - Sharp, Tompkins, Ness, Lamond 6th
Long Jump - Sharp 7th; Dibrindisi 8th
55m - Ness 9th

Boys
2 Mile - Coates-Finke 3rd
300m - Sheldon 3rd
1000m - Axelrod-Adams 8th
Shot Put - Fisher 8th; Subocz 10th
4x200 - Jackson, Ramsden, Shulman-Reed, Rayton 3rd
4x400 - Neverson, Hirschman, Shulman-Reed, Sheldon 4th

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Josh Hirschman qualified for the D3 meet in the 55mHH, running the 3rd fastest time in school history.
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

All-Time Top-10 Additions
Girls
1000m - Mariel Lutz 6th
Shot Put - Lisa MacDonald 7th
Long Jump - Alex Dibrindisi 8th

Boys
55mHH - Josh Hirschman 3rd
4x400 - Neverson, Rayton, Shulman-Reed, Sullivan 4th
300m - Sheldon 8th
High Jump - Josh Hirschman 9th
1000m - Sam Coates-Fink
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The Boys 4x2 ran the fastest time in Western Mass and 6th fastest in school history.
At the beginning of a busy weekend for the Blue Devil track and field programs, the boys and girls swept Chicopee Friday night with the boys winning 51-44 and the girls capturing a 85-10 victory.  The girls had 18 personal bests, 13 Western Mass qualifiers, 3 D3 qualifiers and 4 top-10 additions.  The boys posted 19 personal bests, 12 Western Mass qualifiers, 2 D3 qualifiers and 4 top-10 additions. 

On Saturday at the Coaches Invitational, freshmen Alex Dibrindisi easily won her heat of the 600 to place 18th - but was only .7 out of third place in the entire meet.  Classmate Winnie Brown punched her ticket to the D3 meet in February in the same event, running a personal best as well as both athletes improved on their performances in the All-Time Top-10.
At the MSTCA Elite Meet Sunday in Boston, Alex Sullivan placed 7th in the 1000m in a season-best time of 2:34.69.  Sam Coates-Finke also competed for the boys, running the 2 mile in 10:03.45. 

Northampton results from all three days are below along with Bob Gardner's pictures from Friday and Jim Sharp's pictures from Friday and Saturday.

Bob Gardner's pictures
Jim Sharp's pictures Friday  Saturday

All-Time Top-10
Girls
High Jump - Adrienne Pascucci 2nd; Mariel Lutz 8th
600m - Alex Dibrindisi 5th; Winnie Brown 7th
55m HH - Leah Tompkins 7th
Shot Put - Shannon Keefe 9th

Boys
600m - Alex Sullivan 2nd
300m - Josh Hirschman 3rd
4x200 - Jackson, Neverson, Shulman-Reed, Rayton 6th
1000m - Neal Axelrod-Adams 9th
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The Northampton Girls improved to 7-0 with twin 63-22 wins over Agawam and Amherst.  The boys topped Agawam 80-15, but were narrowly defeated by Amherst 48-47.  The top performance of the meet was Senior Alex Sullivan shattering the PVIAC league record in the 1000m, running 2:36.53.  The old record was set by Holyoke's Chris Rigali in 2002 of 2:38.3.  The 4x400 team of Marcus Neverson, Josh Hirschman, Ben Shulman-Reed, and Avi Sheldon just missed the league record, running 3:37.48.  Sheldon also won the 600, running 1:27.27. Event winners for the girls were Mariel Lutz (2 Mile), Adrienne Pascucci (LJ), Mia Toffoli (1000m), and Leah Tompkins (HJ).  Lutz set a new freshman record in the 2 Mile, breaking the old record by 40 seconds as she ran 11:54.40.  The girls had 17 Western Mass and 8 MIAA D3 Qualifiers while the boys posted 13 Western Mass and 4 MIAA D3 Qualifiers. Northampton team results,Bob Gardner's pictures, and the All-Time Top-10 additions are listed below.

Bob Gardner's Pictures

All-Time Top-10 Additions
Girls
2 Mile - Mariel Lutz - 4th
1 Mile - Eliana Zimmerman - 9th
Shot Put - Madison Hutchins - 10th

Boys
4x400m - Neverson, Hirschman, Shulman-Reed, Sheldon - 3rd
600m - Avi Sheldon - 4th
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