By Kevin Sjoberg
Sports Reporter
FORT KENT – The Warriors hosted both a classical cross country meet and both slalom and giant slalom alpine races this past week.
On Thursday, at Lonesome Pine Trails, the Caribou boys and girls swept the Nordic competitions.
Caribou’s boys team scored 11 points to easily defeat Fort Kent (41), Presque Isle (58), Madawaska (60) and Fort Fairfield (no score).
Christian Sleeper of the Vikings had the winning time of 18 minutes, 27 seconds. Teammates Caleb Chapman (18:39) and D.J. Flynn (18:59) followed, while Fort Kent’s Logan Doak (19:51) was fourth and Viking freshman Ryan Washington (19:52) fifth.
Rounding out the top 10 were Ezra Duplissie-Cyr of Caribou (20:12), Jesse Rochester of Presque Isle (20:31) and Caribou skiers Josh Kovach (20:31), Kjetil Rossignol (20:43) and Matt Coty (21:21).
Fort Fairfield’s Nathan McLaughlin was 19th in 23:15.
The Caribou girls also claimed the comfortable victory. The Vikings scored 13 points to finish ahead of Fort Kent (32), Fort Fairfield (57), Presque Isle (59) and Madawaska (no score).
Laura Collins of Caribou won by an eight-second margin over runner-up Vicky Bernard of Fort Kent. Collins’ time was 22:38, while Bernard came in at 22:46.
Seven Viking skiers followed in order. They were Ashley Richards (23:32), Kendra Stevens (23:54), Mackenzie Belyea (23:57), Chelsea Bard (24:19), Meredith Sleeper (24:31), Olivia Sleeper (24:31) and Emily Soderberg (24:51).
Melissa McKenney of Fort Fairfield was 12th in 25:52.
On Saturday, alpine skiers had their chance to hit the slopes at Lonesome Pine Trails.
In the boys’ slalom, Logan Brewer of Central Aroostook fashioned the best time at 1:28.74 for his two runs. He was just 3/100ths of a second faster than Fort Kent’s Ted Martin.
Fort Fairfield’s McLaughlin was fifth at 1:33.
Leading Caribou was Nolan McDuffie, who was 12th in 1:43.95. Fort Kent’s Doak won the G.S. in 1:37.58. Brewer took second in 1:43.63, Stetson fourth in 1:44.56 and McLaughlin fifth in 1:45.27.
McDuffie and teammate Dean Walker were 10th and 11th, respectively. McDuffie’s time was 1:48.54 and Walker’s was 1:48.92.
In the girls’ competition, Fort Kent’s Roxy Pelletier swept both the slalom and G.S. races. She was on the slalom in 1:34.29 and the G.S. in 1:45.37.
For the slalom, Caribou’s Lydia Kieffer came in fourth at 1:43.37. Also making the top 10 were the Vikings’ Jessica Zbylut (ninth, 1:55.8) and the Wildcats’ Jolanna Gough (20th, 2:00.41).
In the G.S., Lydia Kieffer was second in 1:46.68 and Collins was third in 1:49.16 to pace Caribou.
The Warrior teams swept the Alpine competitions. Central Aroostook’s boys took second in the slalom, while Caribou was third and PI fourth. In the G.S., CA and Caribou tied for second and the Wildcats were fourth.
The Caribou girls were second and the PI girls third in both disciplines.
