CARIBOU — A small field of 39 runners toed the line for the annual Caribou Labor Day 8K Road Race, which started and finished at the Caribou High School track and took place Sept. 2.
The race served as the finale for the annual County Challenge, a racing series which began in February and includes a total of seven competitions which are held throughout Aroostook County.
Caribou’s Spencer McElwain and Mapleton’s Kimberley Wright captured individual titles in the Caribou race, which is billed as the oldest race in The County. McElwain posted a winning time of 25 minutes and 52 seconds, while Wright was the women’s champion in 35:45 and took 13th place overall.
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LOOKING TO GAIN — Angela Ewings, back, trails her Aroostook Musterds teammate Marie Beckum.
There were six walkers participating. Four of them, Jenny Theriault, Shane Theriault, Lindsey Mazerolle and Joey Cowett, crossed the line in identical times of 47:49. Linda Mazerolle and Barbara Finlay were the other two and recorded times of 1:26.1.
Following McElwain and rounding out the race’s top-10 were Evan Graves (27:58), Jeff Ashby (29:00), Thomas Beckum (29:41), Chris Rines (30:26), Trevor Levesque (31:24), Tyler Strid (32:33), Steven Desmond (33:32), Jeff Irving (33:49) and Evan Desmond (34:44).
In the female division, Marie Beckum (36:06), Angela Ewings (36:13) and Rene Gorneault (36:51) followed Wright across the finish line.
Age division winners were Evan Desmond, 14 and under male; Levesque, 15-18 male; Marie Beckum, 19-29 female; Rines, 19-29 male; Gorneault, 30-39 female; Graves, 30-39 male; Ewings, 40-49 female; Ashby, 40-49 male; Brent Jepson, 60-69 male; and Art Thompson, 70 and over male.
Ninety six youth gathered at the Caribou High School track Sept. 2 for the annual Viking Run.
The event, sponsored by Aroostook Federal Savings and Loan, featured six separate races: a quarter-mile race for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten-age girls, a quarter-mile race for pre-K and K boys, a half-mile race for first- and second-graders, a half-mile race for third- and fourth-graders, a mile race for fifth- and sixth-graders and a mile race for seventh- and eighth-graders.
Everybody participating received a T-shirt and a ribbon, and the top three girls and boys in each age division received trophies. Those winners, and their finishing time, are as follows:
Pre-K and K girls: first, Jayden Holmes, 2:15; second, Brooke Quick, 2:23; and third, Molly Williams, 2:34.
Pre-K and K boys: first, Landen Belanger, 1:55; second, Graedon King-Rosado, 2:00; and third, Eli Mosher, 2:07.
Grades 1-2 girls: first, Teanne Ewings, 3:47; second, Claire Ouellette, 4:00; and third, Madelyn Deprey, 4:10; grades 1-2 boys: first, Isaac Staples, 3:37; second, Lars Spooner, 3:45; and third, Andrew Ring, 3:47.
Grades 3-4 girls: first, Annalise Jandreau, 3:28; second, Mia Theriault, 3:36; and third, Saffayia Durepo, 3:47; grades 3-4 boys: first, Ari Plante, 3:08; second, Carter Pelletier, 3:13; and third, Colin Poitras, 3:23.
Grades 5-6 girls: first, Kaylyn Krul, 7:17; second, Teagan Ewings, 7:22; and third, Delaney Alward, 8:02; grades 5-6 boys: first, John O’Meara, 6:25; second, Will Austin, 6:42; and third, Cullin Caverhill, 6:44.
Grades 7-8 girls: first, Searra Hebert, 6:39; second, Sarae Greenier, 6:41; and third, Adessa Judd, 6:44; grades 7-8 boys: first, Evan Desmond, 5:58; second, Alec Cyr, 6:35; and third, Austin Findlen, 6:57.
