EASTON, Mass. (May 4, 2025) – Both Stonehill College track and field teams finished in the top three of the team standings on the final day of the Northeast Conference Outdoor Championships at W.B. Mason Stadium on Sunday.
 
The men's team propelled itself from sixth place after yesterday's competitions up to second place today with a final tally of 105.50 points, trailing only Central Connecticut, which won the title with 235 points. The women's team placed third with 124 points, as Central Connecticut finished runner-up at 146 points, and Wagner won with 167 points on the women's side.
 
WOMEN'S EVENTS

• Freshman Hannah Santos (Swansea, Mass.) had the best individual finish of the day for the Skyhawks in the field events, placing second in the high jump, recording eight points while reaching a mark of 1.63m (5' 4.25").
• Classmates Mollie Osgood (Wilmington, Mass.) and Simone Connolly (West Roxbury, Mass.) also scored for Stonehill, placing sixth and eighth. Osgood reached 1.57m (5' 1.75") and Connolly hit a mark of 1.52m (4' 11.75").
• Senior Madison Gunderway (Cranston, R.I.) tallied three points for the Skyhawks, placing sixth in the javelin throw with a toss of 32.31m (106' 0").
• Junior Kaia Eder (Moorestown, N.J.) placed fifth, scoring five points with a personal-best mark of 11.64m (38' 2.25") in the triple jump.
• Freshman Samantha Gaudet (Falmouth, Maine) placed seventh in the discus to tally two points for Stonehill with a toss of 37.22m (122' 1").
• In the first track event of the day, freshman Mallory Hildreth (Pittsford, N.Y.) podiumed for the first time in her career, placing third in the 3000-meter steeplechase at 11:22.37, also a new PR.
• Junior Jordan Malloy (Colchester, Conn.) placed third in the 1500-meter race final, improving on last year's fifth-place finish as she crossed the finish line in 4:32.04, netting the Skyhawks six points.
• Classmate Emily Young (Newton, Mass.) finished eighth in the 1500m final with a time of 4:44.72.
• After placing second in yesterday's 100-meter hurdle preliminary race, senior Madison Rousseau (Canton, Mass.) blew her program record out of the water in the event, placing second again at 14.11 seconds.
• Rousseau also broke her program record in the 400-meter hurdles final, placing third at 1:01.58. She combined to score 20 points for the Skyhawks on Sunday, with another six points being added on as a member of the third-place 4x100m relay team.
• Junior Grace Tyrrell (Cavendish, Vt.) placed seventh in the 400m hurdle final at 1:10.34.
• Graduate student Kaytlin Encarnacao (Reading, Mass.) found her way to the podium in the 400-meter final, placing second at 54.93 seconds, a new program record for the Skyhawks.
• Encarnacao also placed eighth in the 200-meter dash final with a time of 25.27 seconds.
• Sophomore Madison Stott (Dartmouth, Mass.) set a personal record in the 400m final, crossing the finish line in 57.67 seconds to place fifth.
• In the 800-meter final, senior Emma Lawrence (Milford, Mass.) secured a spot on the podium, coming in third place at 2:15.96 while freshman Emmy Belvin (Chepachet, R.I.) placed eighth at 2:21.16.
• In the first relay race of the day, the team of Stott, Encarnacao, sophomore Katie Gibbons (Pembroke, Mass.), and Rousseau finished in third place at 47.57 seconds in the 4x100-meter relay for six points toward the Stonehill team score.
• The 4x400-meter relay race marked the final event of the weekend as the team of Tyrrell, Stott, Lawrence, and Encarnacao came in second place, tallying eight points, with a time of 3:48.74.

MEN'S EVENTS

• Senior Parker Hagen (Newport, R.I.) podiumed in the triple jump, recording a new personal best mark of 14.29m (46' 10.5") to come in second place, earning eight points for the Skyhawks.
• Graduate student Jacob Pacheco (Merrimack, N.H.) and Cody DeAngelo (Old Saybrook, Conn.) both tied for second place in the pole vault final, scoring 7 points each for Stonehill, reaching 4.35m (14' 3.25").
• Pacheco also podiumed in the javelin throw, coming in second place at 59.57m (195' 5"), recording eight more points for the Skyhawks' team score.
• Three Skyhawks scored for the Skyhawks in the discus final on Sunday, led by sophomore Joseph Chesney (Cumberland, R.I.), who placed fifth with a toss of 43.97m (144' 3").
• Senior Michael Gozzo (Weymouth, Mass.) set a new personal record in the discus, placing seventh at 42.77m (140' 4"), scoring two points for the Skyhawks.
• Junior Eli Grover (Falmouth, Maine) also hit a PR in the discus with an eighth-place finish at 42.61m (139' 10").
• Senior Jace Hollenbach (Topsham, Maine) and freshman Jaxson Merrill (Barnstable, Mass.) both competed in the 3000-meter steeplechase, with Hollenbach finishing in seventh at 10:03.55 and Merrill coming in ninth at 10:21.78.
• Sophomores Colin Keane (Blackwood, N.J.) and Nicholas Davies (Auckland, New Zealand) finished sixth and seventh in the 1500m final, with Keane crossing the finish line at 3:56.23, a new PR, and Davies finishing in 3:57.56, the second-best time of his career.
• Sophomore Jon Dougherty (Reading, Mass.) competed in the 400-meter final, finishing sixth at 48.65 seconds.
• Sophomore Will Tinkham (Stoughton, Mass.) came in fifth on Saturday in the prelim and then came in fifth again in the 110-meter hurdles final, finishing in 14.76 seconds.
• Three Skyhawks qualified for today's 100-meter dash final as freshman Miles Burr (Trenton, Maine) paced the pack with a fifth place finish at 10.75 seconds.
• Senior Shea Drugan (Westfield, Mass) came in sixth at 10.92 seconds, and classmate Zachary Ofurum (Brockton, Mass.) had an eighth-place finish at 11.06 seconds.
• Drugan also came in seventh place in the 200-meter dash final at 21.83 seconds.
• In the 800-meter run final, sophomore Matthew Malora (Harrington, N.J.) finished in seventh place at 1:56.58.
• Sophomore Dylan Brilliant (Plymouth, Mass.) earned a bronze medal in the 5000-meter race, clocking in at 14:44.63 for a new personal-best. Graduate student Patrick Garratt (Westwood, Mass.) finished close behind in fourth place at 14:53.61 while freshman Kyle Kwiatek (Lynn, Mass.) came in seventh at 15:09.71.
• The team of freshman Kauan Bento (Bridgewater, Mass.), Burr, Dougherty, and Drugan set a new program record in the 4x100-meter relay race, combining for a time of 40.87 seconds, placing second.
• In the final event of the weekend, Stonehill came in fifth in the 4x400-meter relay race as the squad of freshman Matthew Anderson (Webster, Mass.), Drugan, Burr, and Dougherty finished the race in 3:18.74.

NEXT UP

• Stonehill Track and Field will compete in the New England (NEICAAA) Championships in Amherst, Mass., next weekend at the UMass Track & Field Complex, with competition beginning on Friday, May 9.  

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