Track and Field Closes Out Season at New England Championships

AMHERST, Mass. (May 10, 2025) – The Stonehill College track and field teams finished out their seasons at the UMass Track & Field Complex, competing in New England (NEICAAA) Championships on Saturday.
 
The men’s team came in sixth out of 21 teams with 47.5 points, and the women’s team tied with Central Connecticut State for eighth place with 29 points. UMass won with 119.5 points on the men’s side while also winning on the women’s side with 136 points. Rhode Island finished as runners-up in both men’s and women’s.
 
WOMEN’S EVENTS

• Graduate student Abigail Larsson (Bayport, N.Y.) matched her second-best mark of the spring in the pole vault, finishing in seventh at 3.67m (12′ 0.5″).
• Junior Jordan Malloy (Colchester, Conn.) set a new personal record in the 1500-meter race, placing third out of 31 runners at 4:29.99.
• Senior Madison Rousseau (Canton, Mass.) came in sixth place in the 100-meter hurdles, crossing the finish line in 14.15 seconds.
• Graduate student Kaytlin Encarnacao (Reading, Mass.) podiumed in the 400-meter dash, finishing third at 55.64 seconds.
• Senior Emma Lawrence (Milford, Mass.) placed seventh in the 800-meter run at 2:16.38.
• Junior Grace Tyrrell (Cavendish, Vt.) had an eighth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles, clocking in at 1:05.29.
• The group of freshmen Emmy Belvin (Chepachet, R.I.) and Mallory Hildreth (Pittsford, N.Y.), Lawrence, and Malloy came in third place in the 4×800-meter relay race with a combined time of 9:13.87.
• Tyrrell, sophomores Madison Stott (Dartmouth, Mass.) and Katie Gibbons (Pembroke, Mass.), and Encarnacao came in sixth place in the 4×400-meter relay, finishing at 3:57.81.

MEN’S EVENTS

• Graduate student Jacob Pacheco (Merrimack, N.H.) finished runner-up in the pole vault, reaching 4.79m (15′ 8.5″), breaking a Stonehill program record that had been in place since 2013 (4.69m; 15′ 5″).
• Classmate Cody DeAngelo (Old Saybrook, Conn.) tied for fifth in the pole vault with a mark of 4.49m (14′ 8.75″), his best mark of the spring.
• Senior Parker Hagen (Newport, R.I.) came in sixth place in the triple jump, reaching 13.86m (45′ 5.75″).
• Graduate student Patrick Garratt (Westwood, Mass.) placed third in the 5000-meter race, crossing the finish line in 14:42.74.
• Also placing in the top-10 of the 5000m race was sophomore Dylan Brilliant (Plymouth, Mass.), who clocked in at 14:56.66 for a ninth-place finish.
• The squad of freshman Kauan Bento (Bridgewater, Mass.), freshman Miles Burr (Trenton, Maine), sophomore Jon Dougherty (Reading, Mass.), and senior Shea Drugan (Westfield, Mass.) came in third place in the 4×100-meter relay race with a time of 41.27 seconds.
• Senior Jace Hollenbach (Topsham, Maine) finished the 1500-meter race at 4:00.14, the ninth runner to cross the finish line.
• Sophomore Will Tinkham (Stoughton, Mass.) came in seventh place in the 110-meter hurdles, setting a new personal record of 14.47 seconds.
• Dougherty ran in the 400-meter dash after the relay race, tallying a seventh-place finish with a time of 48.93 seconds.
• Burr set a new personal record with a second place finish in the 100-meter dash, clocking in at 10.41 seconds, 0.02 seconds off the Stonehill program record. Burr also placed 1lth in the 200-meter dash at 21.93 seconds.
• Sophomore Colin Keane (Blackwood, N.J.) notched a 10th-place finish in the 800-meter run with a new personal best time of 1:56.21.
• After running as the anchor in the 4x100m relay, Drugan placed fifth in the 200-meter dash at 21.58 seconds.
• The team of sophomore Matthew Malora (Harrington, N.J.), freshman Nathan Binda (Auburn, N.H.), junior Thomas Forde (Mystic, Conn.), and Keane came in sixth in the 4×800-meter relay race with a time of 7:57.50.
• In the final event of the season, Stonehill came in fifth in the 4×400-meter relay race as the squad of freshman Matthew Anderson (Webster, Mass.), Bento, Burr, and Dougherty finished the 4x400m relay race in 3:25.81 to place seventh.

NEXT UP

• Stonehill Track and Field closed out its 2024-25 season and will be back in action next year in the Skyhawks fourth installment of Division I competition as members of the Northeast Conference.  

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