Wildcat XC teams begin regular season
The Presque Isle Wildcats made the trip to Ellsworth Saturday for the first regular season meet of the season.
Aleta Looker of Ellsworth won the three-mile girls’ race in 19:29.39.
PI was seventh out of eight teams. The top Wildcat runner was Bonnie Corey, who was 20th in 23:20.36. Mandy Graham was 23rd in 23:30.05 and Emily Colligan 24th in 23:34.59.
A total of 69 runners competed.
For the boys, Ellsworth came away with the win over Bangor Christian and 10 other schools. Presque Isle was seventh.
Dan Curts of the host Eagles claimed the win in 16:06.85.
Presque Isle was led by Saul Nunez, who was 17th in 18:51.91. Trevor Levesque was 18th in 18:52.68. The next PI runner was Matt Tilley, who took 34th in 19:49.25.
At Fort Kent last Wednesday, the Class C schools competed on the 2.92 course at Lonesome Pines Ski Trails.
The Washburn girls scored 16 points and won easily over Central Aroostook, which posted 47. It was the Panthers’ first XC meet in several years as the program was reestablished over the summer. Greater Houlton Christian Academy, Washburn, Limestone-MSSM and the host Warriors did not have enough runners to figure in the team scores.
Carsyn Koch was the race winner, completing the course in 23:02. Teammate Carmen Bragg was one minute back in 24:02, while Beavers Emmy Churchill (24:41) and Mackenzie Worcester (24:58) followed.
Kayla Cushman of CA took sixth place in 25:56.Whitney Cote of the Panthers placed 12th in 28:08.
On the boys’ side, Washburn had the only full team and therefore was the team champ. Fort Kent’s Sam Ouellette took individual honors with a time of 19:25, while the Beavers’ Noah Caron was just 13 seconds behind in 19:38.
Parker Thompson (fifth, 23:20). Michael Ericson (seventh, 23:54) and Justin Davis (ninth, 25:26) also cracked the top-10 for Washburn.
Central Aroostook’s top performer was Jacob Canney, who was fourth overall in 22:03.
The next meet is the Caribou Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 8. Teams from throughout Eastern Maine are expected to compete in the event, which gets underway at 1 p.m.
