NEWPORT – Several local middle schoolers shone last week for Craftsbury Academy (CA) and Danville as they kicked off their middle school track and field season at North Country high school.
Seventh-grader Hollis Allen led the Chargers with a first-place finish in the 1500m event, blitzing runner-up eighth grader Jonah Higgins-Matte of Kingdom East by nearly seven seconds. Allen posted a runner-up finish in the 800m event and a fifth-place finish in the 110m hurdles. Sixth grade teammate Joseph Krebs ran to an impressive seventh-place finish in the 200m event, and eighth grader Oakley Crawford finished third in the 800m event for CA. On the girls’ side, Charger eighth grader Eliza Bunten clipped Enosburg’s Emma Howard by just under a second to best the field in the 800m. Sixth-grade teammate Evelyn Stout finished sixth. Seventh-grader Poppy Glestos capped off an impressive day for CA in the field events with a runner-up finish in the discus and a fifth-place finish in the shot put. Eighth-grader Ora Nobel and sixth-grader Jade Griggs also posted top five finishes in the discus event for the Chargers.
Danville eighth-grader Landon Garrand edged North Country’s Cisco Damato to take home the hardware in the 100m event and eighth grade teammate Colin Gray accomplished the same feat in the 110m hurdles. Gray bested the field in the long jump event and eighth-grade teammate Mirek Siebenbrunner did the same in the javelin event. Seventh-grader Hailey Duprey dominated the 400m event for Danville, seventh-grader Althaea Irwin edged Kingdom East’s Lillian Rossetti in the long jump and seventh-grade teammate Willa Mantius took home the title in the 1500m.
CA, Danville, and the Hazen Union middle school programs were back on the track this past Monday in St. Albans.
