The annual Northeastern Championship Meet at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Center in Roxbury marks the beginning of the postseason. By the meet’s end on Jan. 31, the Peabody girls finished first with 121 points. The Magicians accounted for second with 85, followed by Masconomet (76), Gloucester (53), Beverly (52), Danvers (43), Saugus (29) and Swampscott (28). Both Salem and Winthrop failed to score a single point.
Turning to the boys portion of the conference meet, Marblehead zoomed to the top with 93 points, and was followed by Masconomet (81), Peabody (78), Beverly (69), Swampscott (67), Gloucester (54), Danvers (34), Salem (9), Winthrop (8) and Saugus (4).
Both Marblehead teams followed a familiar script. During the regular season, the boys ended up 8-0-1 to win the title, while the girls were 7-1-1 to finish second.
Girls high jump
Maggie Miller (3-11) continued to find success in this event, but decided to leap only once in order to focus on the long jump, where she took home a medal.
Boys high jump
Clark Roszell (6-2) captured the crown as the conference’s best high jumper in the 2025-26 season, despite missing most of the practices leading up to the conference meet, because he was sick.
Owen Coyne (6-0) came in second with no misses after equaling his personal best jump. Colin Burke (6-0) finished fourth, due to a tiebreaker based on misses. Dexter Wynn (5-2, personal best by four inches) ended up 15th overall, the best among all freshmen.
Girls shot put
Lillian Reddy (33-1) is a conference champ, as she continues to dominate the event. Naomi Goodwin (25-1, personal best) was 17th.
Boys shot put
Graham Firestone (36-8) led the way for Marblehead with an 11th place finish. Alex Humphreys (35-7.25) finished 13th. Logan McRae-Hughes (33-5.5) was 19th.
Girls two-mile
Ruby Assa (12:34.08, a four second personal best) accounted for a third-place finish after competing in the mile. Senior captain Marri O’Connell, who also participated in the mile, was right behind her in fourth place. The freshmen trio of Nadia Sirgusa (13:12.40), Sophia Letwin (13:19.42) and Finny Donato (13:37.31) all ran personal bests.
Boys two-mile
Zach Pike (11:09.23) ended up 11th overall, a remarkable time and finish considering he had just completed the mile.
Girls mile
O’Connell (5:16.95, second best time in Division 3 this year) put on a clinic, while running against Swampscott’s top runner Annabelle Averett. Assa came in second after running her best indoor time of 5:54.52, just two seconds shy of an overall personal best.
Boys mile
Pike (4:45.95, a five second personal best) finished fourth, while Henrik Adams (4:46.33) was close behind in fifth. Filip Grubor (4:51.05) rounded out the Marblehead milers with an eighth-place finish to secure the final podium spot.
Girls 1,000
Marblehead’s top two runners Sarah Munroe (3:13.27) and Norah Walsh (3:16.24, a one second personal best) did their best to maintain the pace set by Peabody, only to come in second and fourth, respectively. Elisabeth Greely (14th) and Maddie Gelb (24th) continued their excellent seasons with individual personal bests of 3:44.26 and 4:32.22.
Boys 1,000
Will Cruikshank (2:44.70, a four second personal best) came home with the silver medal after running a beautiful tactical race, according to coach Will Herlihy.
Felix Regnault (2:57.61, a three second personal best) finished under three minutes for the first time to come in 10th. Isaac Durand (3:00.24) also ran well to finish just behind him in 11th place.
Girls 600
Evie Becker (1:51.14, a three second personal best) was credited with an eighth-place finish to earn a medal.
Boys 600
It took a photo finish with a Gloucester runner to keep Victor Pechhold (1:33.89, a four second personal best) off the podium, settling for ninth. “It was still a great race by the promising sophomore,” said Herlihy.
Girls 300
Lucy Flynn (42.51) remained undefeated in this event to secure the title. Liv Carlson (46.03, personal best) came in 15th. Freshman Charlotte Hodgkinson (46.35, personal best) continues to impress to account for 17th place.
Boys 300
Eben Weed cracked the 37-second barrier to finish second with a personal best time of 36.93. Sophomore Voeuncenzo Vorn (38.80. personal best) finished sixth. Slater Johnson (39.15) narrowly missed the podium stand with a ninth-place finish.
Girls 55-meter dash
Flynn (7:42) came in second after breaking the school record set just last year by Ava Machado (7.44). The new school record ranks 25th in state history. Zoe Dwyer (7.88, personal best) was seventh, and Cora Gerson (8.10) 16th.
Boys 55-meter dash
Owen Coyne (6.81) finished with the bronze medal. After setting a personal best in a preliminary heat, Burke (6.93) proceeded to finish eighth overall. Nate Selby (7.01) narrowly missed the finals with a ninth-place finish. Johnson (7.17), who began participating in more short sprints this year, came in 13th.
Girls 55-meter hurdles
Isabella Anaya Lanzillo (11.10) was the first Marblehead runner to cross the finish line in 19th place. Faith Apostolopoulos (11.51) was 23rd, and Addison Rotigliano (12:22) 24th. All three are young hurdlers, who will see much success in the future, according to head coach Nolan Raimo.
Boys 55-meter hurdles
Junior Noah Jackson (7.95) shocked the high school track world with a sub-eight race that resulted in a second-place finish. He’s now ranked 24th in the state.
Nate Jendrysik (8.46) finished sixth. Firestone (9.84) volunteered to run the hurdles, and ended up scoring a few points for the team, despite a block malfunction. Theo Bening (10:17, personal best) continues to make progress, and is now second among conference sophomores this year.
Girls 4×200
Dwyer, Julia Thomson, Gerson and Meghan O’Leary (1:55.94), running together for the first time, sprinted to a fourth-place finish.
Boys 4×200
Wynn, Humphreys, Johnson and Jackson (1:40.77) finished sixth. “With a couple of injuries and event timing, we were scrambling to put together a relay team, but Dexter, Alex and Noah volunteered to step up (for the team),” said Raimo. “Noah had to come back after running in the 4×400 just 20 minutes earlier; Dexter was running in his first 200 in over a month; and Alex continued to be a Renaissance Man after already participating in the sprints, hurdles, jumps and throws, while Slater has been an anchor of our relays this season.”
Girls 4×800
This was a battle between Marblehead and Peabody, but Walsh, Munroe, Assa and O’Connell stood up to beat the Tanners on the heels of the senior captain breaking the logjam in the final lap as the team’s anchor. “It was a great run by the entire quartet,” said Herlihy.
Boys 4×800
Grubor, Pechhold, Regnault and Adams (9:07.89) combined to finish third, just one second behind second place Masco.
Girls 4×400
Lanzillo, Flynn, Carlson and Hodgkinson (4:32.06) finished fifth among their conference peers.
Boys 4×400
Jackson, Vorn, Weed and Cruikshank (3:39.07) sprinted to a season best time that resulted in a second-place finish.
