Track teams close season

by Staff Aroostook Republican
10 years ago

State track and field meets involving local schools were held Saturday, marking the end of the season for varsity athletes.
At Brewer, Caribou competed in the Class B event. The Viking girls scored nine points on the day, with Alissa Irving providing six of those with her third-place finish in the 1,600-meter race walk. Her time was 8 minutes and 25.9 seconds. Kate Finnemore also placed, taking sixth in 9:24.73.
Sarah Doak placed seventh in the 1,600-meter run at 5:33.88 to round out Caribou’s scoring.
For the boys, Caribou had a total of 13 points. Mitchell St. Peter came in second in the race walk in 7:36.75, Emilo Garcia was fifth in the 110-meter hurdles in 16.09 seconds and two Viking relay teams placed seventh. The 4×800 team, consisting of Elijah Verhoff, Lucas Kinney, Alex Losieniecki and Derek Richardson, had a time of 8:54.17 and the 4×400 team, made up of Richard Newland, Keith Draper, Kameron Manter and Losieniecki, finished in 3:40.59.
The Waterville boys and girls were the Class B team champions.
The Washburn girls used first-place performances by the 4×100 relay team and Carsyn Koch in the high jump to score 20 points in the Class C meet held in Dover-Foxcroft.
The relay team, consisting of Carsyn and Tori Koch, Joan Overman and Tyra Shaw, was the winner with a time of 51.8 seconds, which was 78/100ths of a second faster than the runner-up team from Traip Academy in Kittery.
Carsyn Koch also won the high jump by clearing 5 feet, 5-1/2 inches, establishing a new Class C state record which had stood for 18 years.
Fort Fairfield and Limestone-MSSM also had female athletes competing, but none placed.
In the boys’ meet, Fort Fairfield scored six points behind a pair of fifth-place finishes by Caleb Daigle in both the 400 and the 200. Daigle ran the 400 in 53.7 seconds and the 200 in 23.95 seconds.
Grier Osterman provided Limestone-MSSM with its only points by placing sixth in the 300 hurdles in 43.64 seconds.
Orono won the girls’ team title, with Lisbon taking the boys’ championship.