EASTON, Mass. (May 3, 2025) – Graduate student Abigail Larsson (Bayport, N.Y.) won the lone gold medal for the Stonehill College track and field team as the Skyhawks competed on day one of the Northeast Conference Outdoor Championships at W.B. Mason Stadium on Saturday.
 
The men's team sits in sixth place with 17.5 points after the first day of competition, with the women ranking in a tie for third place with 40 points. Central Connecticut State is out in front in both the men's and women's standings, posting 72 on the men's side and 46 on the women's.
 
WOMEN'S EVENTS

• Larsson highlighted the day one finishes for the Skyhawks, winning the pole vault final with a personal record of 3.75m (12' 3.75"), tallying 10 points towards the team score for Stonehill.
• Sophomore Morgan Correia (North Dighton, Mass.) also podiumed in the pole vault, placing third with a vault of 3.35m (11' 0"), while freshman Kendall Barton (Concord, N.H.) placed fourth with the same mark as the duo combined for another 11 points.
• Sophomore Kayla Oakes (Kingston, N.Y.) finished runner-up in the long jump final, narrowly missing the top spot by 0.01m as she reached 5.79m (19' 0"), a new personal record. Oakes' second-place finish adds eight points to the Skyhawks' team total.
• In the shot put finals on Saturday, freshman Makenna Dube (North Andover, Mass.) placed seventh to secure two points for the Stonehill team score with a mark of 11.36m (37' 3.25"), a new personal record.
• Senior Madison Gunderway (Cranston, R.I.) placed eighth in the hammer throw final, scoring one point for the Skyhawks with a season-best mark of 42.68m (140' 0").
• Four Skyhawks qualified for tomorrow's 1,500-meter final after today's preliminary race, with junior Emily Young (Newton, Mass.) leading the way with a fifth-place finish at 4:51.75.
• Junior Jordan Malloy (Colchester, Conn.) finished one spot after Young with a time of 4:57.28, followed by sophomore Anna Casey (Medford, Mass.) in 10th at 5:04.30, and freshman Rachael Korowski (Hudson, Mass.) secured the final spot in tomorrow's race, finishing 12th at 5:06.17.
• Senior Madison Rousseau (Canton, Mass.) qualified for the 100-meter hurdles final on Sunday, placing second in the prelim at 14.37 seconds.
• Graduate student Kaytlin Encarnacao (Reading, Mass.) recorded the top time in the 400-meter preliminary race, clocking in at 56.32 seconds. Sophomore Madison Stott (Dartmouth, Mass.) will join Encarnacao in tomorrow's 400m final after placing sixth in the prelim, finishing in 58.01 seconds.
• Encarnacao later qualified for the final in the 200-meter dash with a sixth-place finish at 24.90 seconds, a new personal record for the grad student.
• Senior Emma Lawrence (Milford, Mass.) won the 800-meter race qualifier, finishing with a time of 2:14.40, the second-best time of her career and the second-best time in the NEC this spring.
• Freshman Emmy Belvin (Chepachet, R.I.) also notched a top-five finish in the 800m run, placing fifth at 2:16.09, the fastest time of her career.
• Senior Madison Rousseau (Canton, Mass.) and junior Grace Tyrrell (Cavendish, Vt) qualified for tomorrow's 400-meter hurdles final with Rousseau coming in second at 1:02.06 and Tyrrell coming fifth at 1:04.72. Rousseau's time of 1:02.06 is a personal record and a program record for the Skyhawks.
• In the final event of the day, the Stonehill 4x800-meter relay race team of Belvin, freshman Mallory Hildreth (Pittsford, N.Y.), Lawrence, and Malloy secured a spot on the podium with a silver medal finish in the final, combining for a time of 9:07.06 to secure eight more points for the Skyhawks.

MEN'S EVENTS

• Graduate student Patrick Garratt (Westwood, Mass.) ran in the first men's event of the morning, placing third in the 10,000-meter final with a time of 32:28.67. This was Garratt's first 10,000m appearance, earning six points toward the Skyhawks' team score.
• In the high jump final, sophomore Keagan Fletcher (Wrentham, Mass.) tied for fifth place, tying his PR of 1.93m (6' 4").
• Sophomore Christopher Gill (Boston, Mass.) led the Skyhawks in the shot put final, tallying four points as he placed fifth with a new PR of 15.38m (50' 5.5").
• Sophomore Joseph Chesney (Cumberland, R.I.) notched a point for the Skyhawks, placing eighth in the shot put at 14.98m (49' 1.75"), another personal record in the shot put.
• In the first preliminary race of the day for the men, sophomore Nicholas Davies (Auckland, Mass.) set a new PR in the 1500m race, placing third and qualifying for tomorrow's final at 3:56.96.
• Classmate Colin Keane (Blackwood, N.J.) also qualified for the 1500m final, finishing fifth at 3:59.94.
• Sophomore Will Tinkham (Stoughton, Mass.) came in fifth place in the 110-meter hurdles prelim, crossing the finish line in 14.82 seconds to qualify for tomorrow's final.
• Sophomore Jon Dougherty (Reading, Mass.) placed third in the 400-meter dash preliminary race, setting a new PR in the event for the second weekend in a row at 48.27 seconds.
• A trio of Skyhawks qualified for the 100-meter dash final, finishing in succession with freshman Miles Burr (Trenton, Maine) leading the way in sixth at 10.91 seconds. Senior Shea Drugan (Westfield, Mass came in seventh at 10.92 seconds, and classmate Zachary Ofurum (Brockton, Mass.) secured the final qualifying spot with an eighth-place finish at 10.99 seconds, a new PR for the senior.
• Drugan also qualified for tomorrow's 200-meter dash final as he clocked in at 21.72 seconds, good for a sixth-place finish.
• In the 800-meter run prelim, sophomore Matthew Malora (Harrington, N.J.) qualified for the final on Sunday, finishing in third place at 1:54.77.
• The final event of the day was the 4x800-meter relay race with Malora, freshman Nathan Binda (Auburn, Mass.), junior Thomas Forde (Mystic, Conn.), and Keane placing sixth with a combined time of 7:56.58 in the Skyhawks' first 4x800m relay of the season.

NEXT UP

• Stonehill Track and Field closes out Northeast Conference Outdoor Championships at W.B. Mason Stadium tomorrow with field events beginning at 9:30 a.m. and track events starting at noon.

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