Koch, Lewis earn state track titles
By Kevin Sjoberg
Sports Reporter
State track and field championship meets were held Saturday, with Presque Isle competing in the Class B event held at McMann Field in Bath and Fort Fairfield and Washburn taking part in the ‘C’ competition held at Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft.
Piscataquis Observer Photo/Stu Hedstrom
WASHBURN’S Carsyn Koch and Joan Overman, second and third from left, battle Orono’s Diana Tyutyunnyk and Lauren Stoops to the finish in the 100-meter dash finals Saturday at the Class C state championship track meet held at Foxcroft Academy. Koch was first in 13.4 seconds, with Overman taking second, 6/10ths of a second behind.
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FORT FAIRFIELD’S Andrew Lewis gets ready to throw the discus during the recent Aroostook League championship meet. Lewis came in first in both the discus and the high jump at Saturday’s Class C state championship meet at Foxcroft Academy. 
Washburn’s Carsyn Koch and Fort Fairfield’s Andrew Lewis were dominant once again in their respective events.
Koch turned in first-place efforts in two events, was second in another and was part of a relay team that placed fifth. Lewis also garnered a pair of individual victories and was fifth in another event.
On the girls’ side, Koch won the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.4 seconds, just 6/10ths of a second ahead of teammate Joan Overman. She also took the high jump by clearing five feet.
The junior was the runner-up in the 200-meter dash, finishing .47 seconds behind winner Lexi Dietrich of Freeport. Koch’s time was 27.47 seconds.
The Washburn 4×100 relay team, which also included Tyra Shaw, Kennedy Churchill and Overman, was fifth in 54.61 seconds. The winning time of 51.68 seconds was posted by a team from Traip Academy of Kittery.
The Beavers scored 39 points and were sixth out of 33 schools. Orono was the meet winner with 105 and Traip was the runner-up with 91.
Overman also competed in the high jump, but did not place.
Fort Fairfield received its only point from Logan Bubar in the javelin. Her throw of 96 feet, 2 inches was good for seventh place.
Other Tiger girls who qualified for the state meet but did not place were Lillian Ashby, Shyla Bouchard, Toni Libby and Becky Theriault in the 4×800-meter relay, Sarah Owens in the 100 hurdles and the 100-meter dash, Janae Libby in the 100-meter dash, the pole vault and the 300 hurdles, Teresa Maynard in the high jump and the triple jump, Jessica Goshorn in the triple jump, Ashby in the triple jump, Nicole Giberson in the 400 and the javelin, Bubar in the discus and Megan Jellison in the discus and javelin. The 4×100 relay team of Libby, Giberson, Bubar and Owens also competed Saturday.
In the boys’ meet, Lewis cleared 6-2 in the high jump and threw the discus 133-4 to capture titles in both. The senior was also fifth in the shot put with a mark of 42-9. He did not place in his fourth event, the triple jump.
The Tigers, using Lewis’s points, placed in a tie for 10th place in the team standings with 23 points. The champion was host Foxcroft Academy with 75, while Hall-Dale of Farmingdale was the runner-up with 58.
Also competing for FF were Caleb Daigle, Brandon York, Vincent Campbell and Johnny Theriault in the 4×800-meter relay; Vincent Campbell, Spencer Campbell, Noah Bernard and Theriault in the 4×100; York, Josh Ricker, Spencer Campbell and Theriault in the 4×400, Vincent Campbell in the 110 hurdles, Daigle in the 400, the 200 and the discus; Theriault in the 800 and Bernard in the high jump.
In Class B action, the Presque Isle girls were able to score eight points which put them 18th in 25-team field. Waterville won with 136 points and Lake Region was second with 64.
Amanda Bennett scored six of the Wildcat points by taking third place in the 1,600-meter race walk with a time of 8:24.94. Teammate Regan Nelson had the other two points as she was sixth in the shot put with a mark of 30 feet, 6 inches.
Other PI state qualifiers who participated Saturday were Emily Colligan, Kerrigan LeBlanc, Alyssa Sweeney and Jessica Baldwin in the 4×800-meter relay; Samantha Simonds, Karen Jones, Kali Warner and Kaleigh Kinney in the 4×100; Simonds in the 100 hurdles, Bonnie Corey in the 1,600 race walk in 9:33.99; Jacqueline Lambert in the high jump and Nelson in the discus.
PI was shut out in the boys’ B meet. Waterville was the winner with 96, followed by Falmouth with 87.5 Competing were the 4×100 relay team of Jeremy Gingrich, Caleb Donovan, Matt Tilley and Michael Donovan; as well as Gabe Player in the 110 and 300 hurdles, Gingrich in the 100, Michael Donovan in the 200 and Mitchell Ayotte in the high jump, triple jump and long jump.
