Another winning weekend for Caroline Crocker guided the Frontier girls indoor track and field team to a big performance at Smith College.

The senior won two events, capturing wins in the long jump (14 feet, 11.5 inches) and 55-meter hurdles (8.99) seconds during the early session of PVIAC Meet No. 6 on Sunday in Northampton.

Crocker was also third in the 55-meter hurdles (7.81).

Frontier’s Summer Sobieski also earned a victory in the early session, taking first in the high jump (4 feet, 10 inches), and added a third-place showing in the long jump (14-2) and a seventh-place showing in the 55 hurdles (10.22). 

Runner-up performances from the Redhawks included Abigail Howard (1-mile, 6:01), Claire McFarland (600, 1:52) and Hannah Davis (55 hurdles, 9.37).

Other top 10 finishers for Frontier included Sophia Leone (seventh, 55 and sixth, 300), Phoebe Radner (10th, 1-mile), Nicole Plasse (sixth, 600), Sasha Malo (fourth, 1000 and seventh, 2-mile), Fiona McFarland (seventh, 1000), Liv Christensen (10th, 1000), Davis (fifth, high jump), Lilly Novak (third, shot put) and Micky McCarthy (seventh, shot put).

Mahar eighth grader Stellina Moore made her presence felt yet again on Sunday. Moore notched a trio of top 10 finishes for the Senators, taking fifth in the high jump (4-4), sixth in the long jump (13-2) and ninth in the 55-meter hurdles (10.54).

Athol received a pair of top 10 finishes in the shot put on the girls’ side. Senior Sydney Gauvin was eighth in the event with a heave of 25-½, while sophomore Karleigh Chase was 10th (24-4). 

The Frontier boys’ team also took home some hardware on Sunday, guided by winning performances from Ben Cachiguango and Evan Hedlund.

Cachiguango captured the victory in the 55-meter hurdles (8.54 seconds), and Hedlund was first across in the 1-mile (5:01).

Cachiguango added a seventh-place finish in the 55 meters (7.06), and Hedlund took third in the 1,000 meters (3:01).

Athol sophomore Anthony Lopez-Hippler leaped to a fourth-place finish in the high jump (5-6), and Mahar’s Liam DiDonato had his team’s lone top 10 finish after taking ninth in the 600 (1:44.91). 

Other top 10 finishers on the Frontier side included Benaiah Dougan (ninth, shot put), Augustus Radner (eighth, 2-mile), William Reading (fourth, 600) and Aidan Valderrama (fifth, 600).  

Mohawk Trail’s Mojallali shines in late session

Mohawk Trail sophomore Chay Mojallali had an impressive late session performance to pace the Franklin County contingent on Sunday.

Mojallali won the high jump with a top leap of 5 feet, 8 inches, and added a third-place showing in the 55-meter hurdles (9.55 seconds) for the Warriors.

Senior Savannah Simmons had another nice Sunday for the Warriors, cracking the top 10 individually in a pair of events. Simmons was sixth in the 1,000 meters (3:46) and seventh in the 2-mile (13:40).

Mohawk Trail junior Sophia Goodnow captured a sixth-place performance in the shot put (25-2½). 

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