EMMITSBURG, Md. (May 11, 2025) – With the Mount St. Mary’s men scoring 143 points and the women scoring 121.5 points, the track & field teams finish a respective second and third place at the 2025 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championships.

Three players took major honors bestowed by the conference. Emelie Beckman earned Women’s Most Outstanding Field Honors, and Camryn Jones-Howard took Women’s Field Rookie honors. Abdulazeez Iyiola took top Men’s Track Rookie honors. 

 

Winning performances on Sunday began with the 4×100 relay of Torian Neblett, Daniel Reader, Lucas Koon-Perez, and Kalani Pu’uloa. The quartet finished with a time of 41.19 seconds. Individual victories start with Madelyn Valpy, who came within .01 meters of her school record to take the triple jump with 12.24 meters. Keighan DeCoff won the discus at 42.56 meters while Maeve Parrish finished first in the 800m with a time of 2:15.10. Iyiola won the 400 hurdles with a 54.12 second effort.

 

Podium finishers also included Iyiola for the 110 hurdles where he finished second with 14.49 seconds.  Elizabeth Freymann was a second place finisher, coming one second after Parrish in the 800m (2:16.20), and Dante Elliott earned 2.01 meters in the high jump to also earn a second place showing. Caleb Nelson earned a runner-up mark of 14.97 meters for the triple jump.

 

Reader took third in the 200m (21.55 seconds), as did Jones-Howard for the triple jump (12.04 meters).

 

Both 4×400 relay teams finished in second place for the meet. The women’s team of Avery Ferron, Jasmine Kidd, Reanne Jones, and Zaria Wilson finished in 3:48.41. The men’s team of Iyiola, Gunnar Williams, Koon-Perez and Reader finished in 3:15.08.  

 

Qualified Mountaineers move on to compete at the IC4A/ECAC Championships, hosted by George Mason next weekend.  

 

The final kill of Keani Kaneakua’s high school career was a history maker.

The Radford senior’s 25th of the match gave the Rams the school’s first state volleyball championship. It completed a comeback that took both teams to the limit, with Radford edging Kapaa 25-20, 22-25, 21-25, 25-23, 15-13 to capture the New City Nissan/HHSAA Boys Volleyball Division II title Saturday at Moanalua.

Kaneakua was also the Rams’ emotional leader.

“He’s been a leader ever since he was a sophomore and he got to Radford,” fifth-year head coach Melanie Toloumu said.

Toloumu is a curriculum coordinator at Radford, with biology as her specialty. It’s obvious she knows something about chemistry, too, the way she steadied and inspired her team during numerous timeouts when Kapaa threatened to complete the deal after taking a 2-1 lead in sets.

Kapaa had the early lead in the fifth-set race to 15, but never regained the lead after a Kaneakua dump shot made it 4-3. There were six ties after that, the last at 12-all, but an error and Kaneakua’s second-to-last kill set up his championship winner.

“We tried our best, but our mistakes kind of hurt us,” Kapaa senior outside hitter Felisi Hunt said. “And I’ve never seen a more talented player (than Kaneakua.)”

The Warriors (13-2) played their three state tournament matches in three different gyms, but coach Kapule Kaona did not use it as an excuse.

“We’re lucky our boys didn’t know any better,” Kaona said with a chuckle. “We have guys that are more athletes than volleyball players. Credit to both teams on a great match, but you could see the experience and craftiness (of Radford).”

The Rams (11-4) ended the season with a nine-match winning streak. The early adversity of a 2-4 start helped them become a team, Toloumu and Kaneakua both said.

“I think they got comfortable being the underdog and coming from behind,” Toloumu said. “There were a couple of turning points when we had a big injury in the Campbell match, and then when we played five sets against Waipahu and played through adversity.”

There was plenty to play through Saturday, as Kapaa was often one or two plays from taking over the match in the pivotal fourth set.

“I don’t know any other way than to just keep trying,” Kaneakua said. “I’ve always been this way.”

Emry Piturachsatit’s ace and the loudest block of the match of many by Curren Pope gave Kapaa a 5-1 lead. A few minutes later, JM Miyahira and JP Bucalo got the Rams to 11-9, and the crowd into it. A timeout did not cool off Bucalo, who immediately scored down the line again to cut the deficit to one. But Kapaa regained momentum, and Syren Burley’s kill made it 18-13.

But Radford steadied itself, and then went on a scoring spree starting with a Bucalo kill and continuing with Mark Kimo Villejo serving three more points to tie it at 19-all.

The teams traded figurative punches and timeouts, until the Rams got in two in a row: Villejo was in on a block, and then he dropped in a soft one at the net for the set-winner, deadlocking the match.

Pope, Hunt, Burley and Piturachsatit did most of the scoring in a third set that Radford never led after a 3-2 edge; Pope closed it out with a kill.

The Rams led the second set 19-15, and had many thinking sweep. But Piturachsatit scored on a variety of shots as the Warriors battled back. His kill to end a long rally with Kapaa ahead 24-21 was followed by a Pope set-winner.

Micah Kalima-Keohohina led the Rams’ early first-set surge with back-to-back kills. Three consecutive Kapaa errors let Radford gain control. Villejo found an open spot in the middle to make it 24-20, and Radford won the first set on a Kapaa hitting error.

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BATON ROUGE, La.- The 2025 Southwestern Athletic Conference Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships are slated to take place at A.W. Mumford Stadium located on the campus of Southern University on May 11-13.

The championships will begin on Sunday, May 11 at 10:30 am EST with the Decathlon.

The final day of competition (May 13) will be streamed live on the SWAC Digital Network beginning at 5:00 pm CST with the women’s 4×100 meter relay event.

Live results for the event will be available at the link above.  

Daily State News

DOVER — Four Downstate squads are among the 16 teams that made the field for the DIAA boys’ volleyball state tournament.

The bracket was announced this morning for the tourney, which gets underway with matches on Tuesday.

Unbeaten Caesar Rodney (15-0) is the No. 3 seed in the event, with No. 1 Appoquinimink and No. 2 Salesianum ahead of the Riders.

In Tuesday’s first-round matches involving Downstate teams, CR hosts No. 14 Concord, No. 10 Cape Henlopen goes to No. 7 Christiana and No. 15 Indian River goes to Wilmington to face No. 2 Sallies.

On Wednesday, No. 13 Dover travels to No. 4 Wilmington Charter. First-round matches start at 6 p.m.

The tournament continues with matches on Friday and Saturday.

This is the third season that there’s been an official DIAA state tourney in boys’ volleyball. Cape Henlopen and Sallies won the first two titles.

BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL
DIAA State Tournament
First round

Matches start at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 13

15-Indian River (9-5) at 2-Salesianum (15-1)
10-Cape Henlopen (9-4) at 7-Christiana (11-4)
14-Concord (10-5) at 3-Caesar Rodney (15-0)
11-Odyssey Charter (10-5) at 6-Archmere (13-2)

Wednesday, May 14

16-Dickinson (8-7) at 1-Appoquinimink (15-0)
9-Middletown (10-5) at 8-William Penn (12-3)
13-Dover (8-5) at 4-Wilmington Charter (12-2)
12-Mt. Pleasant (7-8) at 5-Odessa (11-4)

Quarterfinals

Friday, May 16 or Saturday, May 17

Semifinals
Tuesday, May 20

Sites and times, TBA

Finals
Thursday, May 22

At Smyrna, 6 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Juliette Dhalluin score three goals on Sunday and the Stanford defense allowed just one second-half goal to help the Cardinal beat Southern California 11-7 to claim its 10th NCAA women’s water polo championship and third in the last four seasons.

No. 1 Stanford (25-1) finished the season on a 10-game win streak, dating to a 12-11 loss to the Trojans on March 29. The Cardinal beat USC 11-7 on April 27 in the semifinals of the MPSF Championship.

Dhalluin scored with a second left in the first half to make it 6-6 and again with 6:47 left in the third — the only goal of the quarter — gave Stanford the lead for good.

Serena Browne added a goal with 6:04 to play and another with 3:06 remaining to make it 9-6.

Ryann Neushul scored a goal to give her and has 228 — fifth most in program history — in her seven-year career (after winning the 2019 national championship, Neushul stepped away from the Cardinal for two years to train with the U.S. national team) and is the first four-time NCAA team champion in Stanford history.

Christine Carpenter had nine saves for the Cardinal.

Meghan McAninch led USC (29-5) with two goals and Anna Reed finished with 11 saves.

The Cardinal are the all-time leaders in NCAA team championship with 137 and have won at least one team title in each of the past 49 seasons.

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ — On Sunday, the Manhattan men’s and women’s track & field teams officially concluded the biggest weekend of the season at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The men dazzled to the tune of a third-place showing, while the women’s squad climbed to fifth place on the second and final day of competition at the Michael P. Brady Track & Field Complex.

MEN’S HIGHLIGHTS

• Paul Brennan won the Men’s Discus Throw handily in posting a score of 48.32m that was two-plus meters better than anyone else.

• The Men’s 4x100m relay gave rise to a silver medal for the Jaspers’ grouping of Alex Bilello, Thomas Dubnov Raz, Brian Oduor and Darion Lopez. With a time of 41.87s, Manhattan was only bested by Mount St. Mary’s season-best mark of 41.19.

• Darion Lopez nabbed second place in the Men’s 100m Finals and Thomas Dubnov Raz took fifth place in the event. Lopez was timestamped at 10.45, tying his personal best.

• Lopez was also the runner-up in the Men’s 200m Finals, running 21.48.

• Rasmus Jaeger compiled a time of 1:54.33 in the Men’s 800m Finals, earning him third place.

• Ivan Lytovchenko made his presence felt in the Men’s High Jump Finals by turning in a third-place finish (1.96m).

• The Jaspers went fifth, sixth and seventh in the Men’s Shot Put Finals, with Paul Brennan leading the way at 15.02m and being backed up by Peter Athanailos at 14.82m and Alex Kristeller at 14.67m.

• Jayce Ward (13.93m) and Alex Bilello (13.92m) earned sixth and seventh respectively in the Men’s Triple Jump Finals.

• In the Men’s 4x800m Relay Finals, the Jaspers’ team of Brendan Lucey, Adam Guzman, Colby Micheels and Ryan Cleere delivered a new season-best mark of 8:07.21, which was seventh best.

• The 4x400m Relay also posted a season best on Sunday, with Brian Oduor, Thomas Bonsignore, Malik Coleman and Ramus Jaeger combining to produce a time of 3:20.57. The relay finished seventh. 

WOMEN’S HIGHLIGHTS

STATS AND NOTES

 

QUOTES FROM MANHATTAN 

 

“This team should be so proud of their effort,” said Kerri Inman, director of cross country and track & field at Manhattan University. “We were busy all day in finals, earning medals and scoring points. Martina’s (Martinez) school record (400mH) was outstanding. It was just a fun weekend of Track and Field.”

FULL RESULTS

Find all the results for the 2025 MAAC Outdoor T&F Championships at the link below:

 bit.ly/3SuhPb0

UP NEXT
 

The Jaspers will have a select number of athletes competing at next weekend’s ECAC/IC4A Outdoor Championships down in Fairfax, Virginia. 

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