Melissa Hersey celebrated her Senior Day by placing second in a pair of individual events and helping a pair of relay teams to victory as the Turners Falls High School girls’ swimming & diving team defeated Renaissance School, 53-24, in a Constitution Division meet Thursday afternoon in Turners Falls.
Hersey came in second in the 100-yard freestyle in 1 minute, 14.76 seconds and also placed second in the 100 back in 1:27.77. She also teamed up with Olivia Whittier, Jade Tyler and Allison Wheeler to win both the 200 medley relay (2:21.53) and the 200 free relay (2:07.03).
Whittier won a pair of events on the day as she won the 200 free (2:26.28) and the 100 breast (1:18.57), and Jade Tyler won the 200 individual medley (2:32.22) and the 500 free (6:02.33). Abigail Johnson won the 50 free (37.38), and Peyton Emery came in second in the 100 breast (1:38.92).
The 400 free relay team of Johnson, Shaelyn Garvin, Lillian Poirier and Jordan Muniz came in second in 5:58.34.
• On the boys’ side, Cameron Bradley won a pair of events but the Indians did not have enough numbers and suffered a 54-38 loss to Renaissance.
Bradley won the 200 free (2:09.22) and the 100 butterfly (1:04.71), while Nick Taylor won the 500 free (6:27.03). Ed Reipold came in second in the 100 back (1:26.17) and in the 100 free (1:07.49), while Nikolas Martin was third in the 100 fly (1:32.86) and fourth in the 100 free (1:22.87). Reipold, Chase Blair, Bradley and Taylor got together and won both the 200 medley relay (2:15.21) and the 400 free relay (4:21.87).
Mohawk boys third
Mohawk Trail Regional High School had two individuals finish in the top 10 and the Warriors finished third in the boys’ North Division during the PVIAC Alpine Ski League at Berkshire East Ski Resort in Charlemont.
Mohawk’s Dan White was the area’s top finisher, recording a time of 34.47 in the slalom to place sixth in the North and ninth overall. Warrior teammate Bennett Boucias was ninth in the North and 14th overall in 35.87.
The other team scorers for Mohawk were James Harrison in 30th overall (41.16) and Ryan Burke in 32nd overall (41.27).
Longmeadow High School cruised to an easy win in the North, beating Westfield High School by over 11 seconds. Mohawk placed third at 152.77.
Only two of Frontier’s three skiers finished the run — Ben Martino placed 51 st overall (45.45) and Billy Prunier was 56 th (46.80).
The girls’ giant slalom results were not available due to a timing issue at the mountain. It was unclear what would be done, but one option is throwing out the results that were saves and rescheduling the race.