Track: Hopkinton girls win inaugural Campbell Cougar Invitational

The Hopkinton girls' track team poses with the championship plaque after winning the inaugural Campbell Cougar Invitational on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Courtesy
Published: 04-27-2025 10:15 AM |
The Hopkinton girls’ track and field team runners showed their strength on Saturday, winning four events and scoring points in nine of 11 as the Hawks won the inaugural Campbell Cougar Classic Invitational on Saturday at Campbell High School.
Weather forced the cancellation of all field events.
Sophomore Maddy Lane won the 1,600 meters in 5 minutes, 11.71 seconds, senior Reese Bove won the 800 in 2:25.9, junior Aisling Madden won the 400 in 1:00.59, and all three ran with senior Shaylee Murdough on the champion 4x400 relay (4:25).
The Hawks scored 97 points to win the 10-team invitational, including a big over Division I Bishop Guertin, the runner-up team, with 76 points. Newport (30), Campbell (29) and Kearsarge (24) rounded out the top five.
Lane (second 800), Murdough (second 1,600, third 400), Sofia Upton (second 300 hurdles), Maisie Emerson (third 1,600), Madden (third 200), Crissy-Lee Johnson (third 100 hurdles), Evie Hopper (fourth 3,200), Savannah Smith (sixth 100 hurdles) and fourth-place 4x100 (Madi Belanger, Leia Branham, Aubrey Weldon, Paige Prisco-Nelson) placed for Hopkinton.
Juliet Faria (second 200, third 100), Riley Raynes (second 400) and Leah Lamothe (fifth 100 hurdles) scored for Kearsarge.
Denessa Williams (fifth 200), Kaiden Robb (sixth 400), the second-place 4x100 (Robb, Zariah Moore, Emily Tripple, Williams) and fourth-place 4x400 (Williams, Tripple, Shayla Jordan and Robb) led Winnisquam (eighth, 15).
On the boys’ side, Hopkinton and Winnisquam tied for fourth with 28 points. Nashua North (92), Monadnock (66) and Bishop Guertin (39) were the top three teams in the field of 13.
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Hopkinton senior Roman Finlayson won the 800 meters in 2:04.56 and freshman Max Goupil won the 1,600 in 4:56.58 and came in fourth in the 800 to lead the Hawks.
Hopkinton’s 4x800 of Michael Crosby, Will Shepard, Isaac Ohl and Finnegan Kovar came in fourth.
Brendan Goodwin won the 400 meters in 52.61 seconds, with Nolan Abbott (fourth 400) and Colby Blackburn (fifth 200) also contributing to Winnisquam’s scoring.
Winnisquam’s 4x100 (Taber Haggett, Dylan Griffin, Ari Booth, Victor Pham) and 4x400 (Pham, Haggett, Abbott, Goodwin) both finished third.