Individuals from Presque Isle and teams from Caribou ruled the day at the freestyle ski meet held Friday at Caribou High School.
Max Bartley of the Wildcats captured the individual win for boys with a time of 14 minutes and 22.9 seconds in the five-kilometer course. He was 30.6 seconds ahead of runner-up David Roy of Fort Kent and 37.4 seconds clear of third-place finisher Bryce Coffin of Caribou.
The remainder of the boys’ top 10 included Caribou’s Alec Cyr (15:23.3), Matt Kelly of Fort Kent (15:54), Tristan Pelletier of Ashland (16:24.9), Emerson Duplissie-Cyr of Caribou (16:37), Padraig Keith-Hardy of MSSM (16:38), Evan Desmond of Caribou (16:46.1) and Kevin Ayotte of Madawaska (17:00.5).
Leading the way in the girls’ race was Presque Isle’s Izzy Jackson in 16:57.5, with Isabelle Jandreau of Madawaska the runner-up in 17:09 and Kassie Blanchette of the Owls in third in 18:32.8.
Making up the rest of the top 10 were Kendra Furber of Caribou (18:36.2), Dolcie Tanguay of Fort Kent (19:31), Ciara Richards of Caribou (20:07.6), Madeline Gudde of Caribou (21:11.4), Jojo Fields of Caribou (20:26.2), Erin Kashian of Caribou (20:28.7) and Abigail Wimmer of Caribou (21:04.5).
Jessica Halsey led Fort Fairfield in 14th place overall with a clocking of 21:47.9. Kassandra Nelson of Ashland took 16th in 22:11.7 to pace her squad and Andrea Wasson came in at 41:16.2 to finish as the top MSSM skier.
Thirty-three boys and 28 girls participated in the competition.
