2025 MIAA Boys Cross Country Championships: Boston Public Schools Break Through; Four for Brookline, Three for Parker Charter

The Devens Willard Athletic Complex hosted the 2025 MIAA Boys Cross Country Championships on Saturday, November 15. A total of 23 teams qualified to run in each of the day’s three division races, in addition to 30 individual runners not on those qualified teams.

One team won its fourth consecutive state title, another its fourth in five years, and the third team made history for the city of Boston.

Here is a look at each of the three division races:

Division 1

In perhaps the best individual race of the day, senior Landon Sarney of Oliver Ames High School just edged out senior John Bianchi of Natick High School at the wire to capture the individual championship.

Sarney covered the 5-kilometer course in 15 minutes, 33.28 seconds, just fractions ahead of Division 1B individual winner Bianchi’s time of 15:33.54. Hopkinton High School senior Sean Finnegan, who edged Sarney in the Division 1C race a week earlier, was next across the line in third place (15:40.59).

Meanwhile, Brookline High School took the 4-5 spots with senior Theodore Butty (15:53.91) and junior Liam Hartmann (15:55.54) and captured the program’s fourth consecutive state championship.

The Warriors finished with 67 team points as senior Harry Flint was 16th overall (16:11.54) and junior Ibrahim Abdel-Dayem placed 19th (16:13.54).

Bianchi’s runner-up finish also helped Natick take second as a team (87 points). Concord-Carlisle High School was third (137), followed by Lexington High School (164) and Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (170).

Rounding out the top 10 individuals were: junior Anthony Malakidis of North Attleborough High School (sixth, 15:58.29); senior Greg McGrath of Boston College High School (seventh, 15:58.74); junior Patrick Noonan of Lexington (eighth, 16:00.78); junior Leon Ibanez-Fraile of Cambridge (ninth, 16:04.81); and senior James Kelly of Lowell High School (10th, 16:04.88).

Division 2

Following up on his sectional win a week earlier, Silas Gartner made it back-to-back state championships as well. The Falmouth High School senior coasted across the line in 15:43.55, nearly 10 full seconds in front of his closest competitor.

Meanwhile, the City of Boston’s cooperative program hosted by Boston Latin Academy made history by winning its first state championship. Led by a ninth-place finish from junior Bradon Speiss, the BPS squad scored 105 points to just edge defending champion Longmeadow High School (106) for the championship.

In a race in which every place mattered, Boston got key performances from senior Ryan Collins (24th, 16:52.44), junior Adam Kramer (27th, 16:54.92) and junior Khalid Jama (37th, 17:07.12).

Senior Michael Mohoric of Newburyport High School was runner-up to Gartner (15:52.67), followed by senior Luke Zahurak of Walpole High School (16:03.55), junior Andrew Kosiba of Groton-Dunstable Regional High School (16:08.72), junior Calvin Miller of Amherst-Pelham Regional High School (16:09.89), and senior Atley Phinney of Middleborough High School (16:14.43).

Senior Ethan Halpern placed seventh (16:14.43) to lead Longmeadow’s surge and eventual runner-up finish. Amherst-Pelham was third in the team standings (131), with Groton-Dunstable (143) and Walpole (164) rounding out the top five.

Senior Max Harrington of Holliston High School was eighth overall (16:26.01), and senior Seamus Canniff of Brockton High School placed 10th individually (16:28.44).

Division 3

Led by an individual victory from Nathaniel Henshaw, Parker Charter Essentials School navigated its home course and brought home the program’s third straight state championship and fourth in five years.

Henshaw is the first individual state champion for the Panthers, as the senior finished in 15:43.51.

Parker Charter put all four scoring runners inside the top 20 as freshman Jett Johnson (17th, 16:44.23), junior Cypress Lance (18th, 16:47.06) and freshman Zeph Schermerhorn (20th, 16:51.20) clinched the team championship. The Panthers scored 75 points, well ahead of runner-up Bromfield School (128).

Frontier Regional School junior Evan Hedlund, the 2025 Division 3B champ, was the lone challenger to Henshaw, placing second in 15:47.11. From there, it was a big gap to the rest of the top 10 led by Bromfield junior Ben McWaters in third place (16.20.68).

The rest of the top 10 included: junior Ben Stone of Hopedale Jr/Sr. High School (16:21.79); senior Luke Howard of Frontier (16:27.87); 2024 champion and senior Everett Pacheco of  Monument Mountain Regional High School (16:30.22); senior Oscar Schiff of Hampshire Regional High School (16:31.60); junior Patrick Holland of Mount Greylock Regional School (16:32.81); junior Benjamin Harwood of Lenox Memorial High School (16:32.81); and junior Matthew Pilon of Lunenburg High School (16:35.43).