’Cats host XC meet in Caribou
By Kevin Sjoberg
Sports Reporter
CARIBOU — Due to a scheduling conflict, the annual Presque Isle Invitational Cross Country Meet was actually held at Caribou High School Saturday afternoon. The change in venue worked out just fine for the Mount Desert Island girls and the John Bapst boys, who rolled to team titles.
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| MANDY GRAHAM of the Presque Isle Wildcats placed 20th in Saturday’s Presque Isle Invitational Cross Country Meet, held in Caribou. | DUSTIN DRABEK of the Wildcats, right, surges past John Bapst’s Mike Tormey during the cross country meet Saturday. |
Staff photos/Kevin Sjoberg
The Trojan girls showed the most dominance, with only County runners Carsyn Koch of Washburn and Nerissa Larrabee of Caribou preventing MDI from posting a perfect score.
MDI featured five of the top seven runners, with Maggie Painter leading the charge on the three-mile course with a time of 19:49. She was followed by teammates Isabel Erickson (20:11.2) and Waylon Henggeler (20:15.06).
Koch was next at 20:55.22 as she and Larrabee (21:43.03) sandwiched the Trojans’ fourth runner, Olivia Erickson. Caroline Driscoll of MDI placed seventh in 21:52.09 as the team’s final scorer.
Washburn placed second in the nine-team meet with 71 points. Tori Koch placed 11th in 22:12.92, Carmen Bragg 15th in 22:29.78, Mackenzie Worcester 22nd in 23:02.21 and Emilia Churchill 23rd in 23:05.61.
Presque Isle came in fifth place in the team standings. Emily Colligan came in 14th in 22:25.42 and Mandy Graham was 20th in 22:58.2. Amanda Palmer (41st, 26:13.45), Hilary Boucher (42nd, 26:15.25) and Matteah Michaud (45th, 26:59.64) followed as the Wildcats’ other top finishers.
In the boys’ meet, John Bapst posted 37 points and bested MDI for the top spot. PI was fourth with 83. Washburn had 179 points to tie for seventh.
The meet winner was Matthew Touissaint of Fort Kent, who crossed the finish line in 17:28.03.
The victorious Crusaders also fashioned the sixth, seventh, 10th and 12th-place finishers to guarantee the top spot.
The Wildcats had a pair of top-10 finishers in Saul Nunez (eighth, 18:55.73) and Dustin Drabek (ninth, 18:56.2). Trevor Levesque was just a few slots back, taking 13th place in 18:58.31.
Jason Bartley was 24th in 19:57.65 and Noah Rossignol 29th in 20:15.07 to round out the PI top five.
Derek Baker’s 21st-place perfomance led Washburn. He had a time of 19:43.11. Cameron Preston (35th, 20:46.22), Alex Pelletier (38th, 21:10.35), Kenny Irving (42nd, 21:32.13) and Michael Ericson (45th, 21:36.79) were the other Beaver scorers.
Presque Isle’s Austin Albert was sixth in the JV meet in 20:54.52.
