Hoosac Valley's Ciempa Ties School Record at Merrimack
Hoosac Valley graduate Trevor Ciempa has had a successful indoor track and field campaign at Merrimack College this winter.
The Merrimack senior won the high jump, tying the school record of 2.04 meters, at the Northeast-10 Championships. His score helped the team place fourth out of 11 teams at the meet. Earlier this year, he won the high jump at the Southern Maine Invitational, clearing 1.99 meters at the event.
Michael Kotleski (Monument Mountain) helped lead the Bridgewater State men’s track and field team to a first-place finish at the Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference Championships. Kotleski finished fifth in the the 400 meters (52.20 seconds) and seventh in the 200 (23.33) and ran on his team’s winning 4-by-400 relay, which finished in 3:25.40, just .16 off the meet record.
Taconic graduate Dominic Nda ran a time of 7.04 in the finals of the 60-meter dash representing UMass Boston at February’s New England Division III Regional Championships. Nda helped the Beacons place 15th out of 28 teams at the regional.
Lenox’s Shannon Meisberger ran a 57-second split in the 400 leg of Georgetown University’s second-place distance medley relay quartet at the Big East Championships over the weekend. The Georgetown freshman also competed as an individual in the 200 and the 400 for the Hoyas, who finished fifth.
Monument Mountain’s Allison Kinne picked up a third-place finish in the 400 meters (1:04.05) for Colgate University at the school’s Class of 1932 Invitational earlier this month. The Colgate freshman helped her team to its best finish of the indoor season, a second-place showing out of seven teams in attendance.
Also at that meet, Hamilton College sophomore Eleanor Williams (Mount Greylock) competed in the 3,000, finishing in 11:44.03 and placing ninth for the Continentals, who finished first in the team standings.
Courtney Luscier (Taconic) placed second in the 60 meters (7.78) for Springfield College at Saturday’s Fastrack Last Chance Invitational on Staten Island.
Another area alumna hoping to join that Division III tournament field is Hoosac Valley’s Fallon Field, a freshman at Bowdoin, which bowed out of the NESCAC tournament on Saturday with a loss to Tufts in the conference semi-finals. Field has played in 22 games, averaging 9.9 minutes per game, for the Polar Bears (24-2), who are hoping for an at-large bid to the tournament when the field is announced on Monday.
Field’s former Hoosac Valley teammate, Kailynne Frederick, played 20 games this winter for the Norwich University women’s basketball team, averaging 1.1 rebounds and 4.8 minutes per game for the Cadets (10-16).
Katlyn Toomey (Drury) and the Castleton State women’s basketball team finished their season 21-5 after an upset loss in the North Atlantic Conference semi-finals. Toomey averaged 9.5 minutes per game in 24 games for the Spartans.
St. Anselm College freshmen Grace Guachione and Peyton Steinman helped their team to a 17-12 record in a season that ended Sunday in the Northeast-10 Championship quarter-finals. Guacchione (Miss Hall’s School) played in all 29 games, averaging 15 minutes and 4.5 points per game. Steinman (Pittsfield High) averaged two assists per game and had an assist/turnover ratio of 1.8. She started 17 of her 29 games, averaging 21.5 minutes and 6.7 points per game.
Lenox’s Bailey Patella has appeared in 11 games, hitting his only field goal attempt and grabbing seven rebounds in 29 minutes for the University of Vermont men, who at 24-6 overall, are the top seed in the America East tournament that gets underway this weekend.
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