By Kevin Sjoberg
Sports Reporter
It’s now October, which is the month featuring the final few regular season games for area soccer teams as well as a bulk of the playoff action later in the month.
Contributed photo/Laurie Sheehan
Jesse Sandstrom was one of the major factors allowing Caribou to place fourth out of 55 teams in Saturday’s meet in Belfast. Sandstrom came in 69th out of 735 runners with a time of 18:00.96.
The standings reveal that several central Aroostook County boys teams are making strong bids for the playoffs.
In Eastern Maine Class B, the most recent Heal Point standings show Caribou in ninth with a 3-5-3 record. They have compiled 26.0332 tournament index points.
In EM Class D, Washburn (seventh, 26.1947) and Fort Fairfield (10th, 10.1743) are teams in strong contention.
It was a limited slate of action on the pitch last week, with summaries of the two games following:
Caribou 8, Bucksport 0 – Six different Viking players reached the scoring column at home Saturday in the convincing win over the Bucks.
Nate Rossignol and Matt Milliard had two goals each, while Chad Caverhill, Matt Till, Roland Thibodeau and Adam Chartier netted one apiece for the Vikings, who had 40 shots on goal and improved to 3-5-3 on the season.
Garrett Jordan recorded the shutout in goal with six saves on seven shots.
John Bapst 5, Caribou 0 – The Vikings were blanked as Braeden Sickles garnered a hat trick for the Crusaders in the game played last Wednesday in Bangor. Jordan shared goalkeeping duties with Matt Manter and the two combined for 19 saves.
