Bartley and Jandreau capture individual titles
MADAWASKA, Maine — The Nordic ski season got going Thursday, with all the County teams making the trip north to the St. John Valley to compete.
Capturing team victories were the Caribou boys and the Madawaska girls. The Vikings tallied 17 points to defeat Fort Kent (34), the host Owls (74), Presque Isle (105), Ashland (109) and Fort Fairfield (131).
In the girls’ event, the Owls had a meet-low 21 points to outscore Caribou (33), Presque Isle (46), Fort Kent (65), Ashland (105) and Fort Fairfield (108).
Individually, Max Bartley of the Wildcats came out on top on the boys’ side as he completed the course in 12 minute and eight seconds. Next was Caribou’s Riley McDuffie at 12:35, with David Roy of Fort Kent third in 12:54.
Caribou took the next three positions behind Dan Randolph (13:11), Caleb Willett (13:16) and Lukas Lagasse (13:19). Thomas Krause of Fort Fairfield came in seventh in 13:34, while NIco Naranja of Fort Kent was eighth in 13:40. the Vikings’ Alec Cyr (13:45) and Ashland’s Malcolm Milligan (13:51) were ninth and 10th, respectively.
The girls’ winner was Isabelle Jandreau of Madawaska, who came in at 14:47. Jordan Tanguay of Fort Kent was just six seconds back and was the runner-up in 14:53, with Isabelle Jackson of PI third with a 15:15 clocking. Kasie Blanchette of Madawaska (15:26) and Madeline Gudde of Caribou (15:36) were next.
Taking the sixth through 10th slots were, in order, Chelsea Daigle of Madawaska (15:39), Tori Koch of PI (15:55), Ciara Richards of Caribou (16:20), Kendra Furber of Caribou (16:26) and Aspen Cote of Madawaska (17:09).
Kassandra Nelson led Ashland with a time of 19:29, which was good for 19th overall, while Sarah Watt of Fort Fairfield was 21st in 19:34.
A total of 41 boys and 30 girls competed during the afternoon event.
The lack of snow and unseasonably warm temperatures has caused the cancellation of the first alpine meet of the season, which was scheduled for this Saturday. The meet was originally slated to take place at Bigrock in Mars Hill and was changed to Lonesome Pine Trails in Fort Kent, but neither venue has viable conditions to host.
