The Middlebury women’s track and field team broke a school record and had numerous top-eight finishes while competing at the Division III Outdoor New England Championships on Friday and Saturday. Tufts won the meet with 94 points, while Connecticut College (60 points) and the Coast Guard (50.5 points) rounded out the top three teams. The Panthers placed ninth with 34 points. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Middlebury earned two spots in the top 10 during the shot put. Julia Tulimieri finished fifth with a throw of 12.58 meters, while Lilly Wurtz finished in sixth at 12.48m. Tulimieri’s throw eclipses the school record that Wurtz set earlier this season of 12.40m.
• Macy Daggitt earned silver in the long jump, hitting the sand at 5.76m.
• In the 400-meter hurdles, Anna Mazur claimed the runner-up spot with a time of 1:05.80. 
• Tulimieri secured fourth place in the hammer throw with a distance of 45.55m.
• Middlebury secured a duo of top-10 efforts in the discus throw. Madeline Sauders achieved a season-best toss of 41.19m to claim fifth place, while Wurtz finished in ninth with a toss of 38.74m.
• Olive Lawrence crossed the line with the eighth-best clocking in the 100 with a time of 12.25 seconds.
• In the 400, Ella Pate recorded a personal-best time of 58.78 seconds, finishing in eighth place.

NOTES

• The top-eight finishers in each event earn all-region accolades.

The Panthers travel to Massachusetts to compete at the Farley Inter Regional Extravaganza and the Open New England Outdoor Championships on Friday and Saturday.

AURORA – The Colorado High School Activities Association has released the brackets for the Boys Volleyball State Championship. This season marks the first time the sport will crown champions in two classifications.

Find the brackets here:

Each classification will feature eight teams, which earner their state tournament bids by winning their respective regional tournaments this past week. They were seeded using the final Seeding Index data.

The tournaments are a double-elimination format through the semifinals, and then a winner-take-all match for the state championship final. The state championship tournament will be played at Overland High School on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

All matches will consist of up-to five 25-point sets, with the final deciding set being a 15-point set. The winner of the match will be the first team to win three sets.

A list of qualifiers for each classification is available on this link: Qualifiers

UCLA went up 1-0 on the court three after a straight-set win by Jessie Smith and Kenzie Brower, 21-17, 21-12, over LMU’s Abbey Thorup and Lisa Luini.

The Bruins advanced to 2-0 when Sally Perez and Maggie Boyd defeated Michelle Shaffer and Anna Pelloia in two sets on court one, 25-23, 21-18.

 

The Lions then earned a point by picking up a straight-set on court two when Chloe Hooker and Vilhelmiina Prihti defeated Peri Brennan and Natalie Myszkowski, 22-20, 21-16.

LMU tied up the dual on court four as Magdalena Rabitsch and Isabelle Reffel won a three-set thriller over Alexa Fernandez and Kaley Mathews, 21-16, 14-21, 12-15.

The Lions clinched the dual on court five in another three-setter with Tannon Rosenthal and Giuliana Poletti Corrales defeating Ensley Alden and Harper Cooper, 18-21, 21-19, 15-12.

No. 4 LMU def. No. 1 UCLA, 3-2

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Records: UCLA (32-7), LMU (38-6)

Order of finish: 3, 1, 2, 4, 5*
 

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NEW LONDON, Conn.—Junior Brooke Jankowski (Derry, N.H.), sophomore Colleen Corman (Quaker Hill, Conn.) and first-year Amrit Rehal (Alpharetta, Ga.) all earned all-region honors as the Babson College men’s and women’s track & field teams wrapped up competition at the New England Division III Championships on Saturday afternoon. 

The Babson women totaled 12 points over the two-day meet to finish 22nd among scoring teams, while the Babson men tied for 34th with two points. 

The Beavers claimed a pair of top-six finishes in the women’s high jump as Rehal placed fourth by clearing 5-feet, 3.25-inches, while Jankowski took sixth with a mark of 5-feet, 1.25-inches. Their other all-region honor came in the 400-meter hurdles as Corman posted a time of 1:07.21, which was good for fifth place and just 0.11 seconds off her best result of the year.

Junior Robyn Wilkes (Atlanta, Ga.) came in 16th in the 200 meters with a time of 25.88, while classmate Trista Sicard (Mansfield, Mass.) finished 22nd in the triple jump with a leap of 35-feet, 3.75-inches. Wilkes time in the 200 meters was just 0.01 seconds off her season best set back on April 19. 

First-year Noa Wong (Kaneohe, Hawaii) registered the top result of the day for the Babson men by coming in 17th with a season-best time of 49.96 in the 400 meters. Classmate Jackson Adams (Norwell, Mass.) finished 20th in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 57.19. 

The Beavers are back in action next Friday and Saturday with both the NEICAAA Championships at UMass Amherst and the Farley Inter Regional at Williams. 

It wasn’t to be Saturday afternoon for the Miners boys volleyball squad, falling in their playoff opener to West Field three sets to two.

Park City left everything on their home floor however, sending a moderate-but-exuberant crowd into a frenzy with each twist-and-turn of the match. The Miners took the first set with relative ease, falling in the second in a similar manner. The third set was contentious, with the Miners falling on a set point marred by a bad call, and in the fourth set, Park City rallied well to force the deciding fifth.

In the fifth set, it appeared the Miners simply ran out of juice. West Field had a bit more size up front, and they used that to dominate. West Field also played a bit cleaner throughout the match, avoiding penalties and other mistakes.

The loss was emotional for the Miners, whose second-ever boys volleyball season came to a close. For many of the team’s 11 seniors, that was their last competitive sporting action. Supportive parents and friends helped ease the blow as West Field made the Park City High gym their own, celebrating on their opponent’s home floor.

“I told them how proud of them I am,” said Miners head coach Eric Damon on how he consoled the team in the locker room after the loss. “It’s not the result we wanted, but from where we started this season to where we ended, the growth as volleyball players and young men is unreal.”

This year’s group was Damon’s first as varsity head coach. The group means a lot to him, and he knows they’ll go on to do special things in life. Many of the players and parents went up to their head coach, thanking him for his efforts this season.

“I’m feeling really optimistic,” added Damon on the future of Park City boys volleyball. “There’s a lot of young boys that are coming up, and volleyball is growing.”

Damon liked what he saw this year from the program’s underclassmen. He also hopes some of the seniors’ younger siblings felt inspired by what they saw, and decide to come out for future teams. This year’s team certainly electrified their home crowd.

Next year, Damon will look for a little more consistency from his team. He said one of his favorite memories this season was watching his boys dominate Stansbury at home March 28, and he wished they’d have been able to piece together that level a bit more.

“Volleyball is very much a game of ebbs and flows, and you’ve got to ride the waves,” said Damon. “When the waves are too low, sometimes it’s too hard to come back from. … That Stansbury match really showed what kind of team we are.”

West Field advances to face number one 4A seed Orem Wednesday morning at Utah Valley University. To follow the remainder of the boys 4A tournament, see their bracket on MaxPreps. The state title game will be held Thursday, also at UVU.

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