By Kevin Sjoberg
Sports Reporter
State track and field championship meets were held Saturday, with Caribou competing in the Class B event held at McMann Field in Bath and Fort Fairfield, Limestone-MSSM and Washburn taking part in the ‘C’ competition held at Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft.
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.
Limestone-MSSM’s Michaela Garrett came in third place in the javelin with a throw covering 104 feet, 5 inches. She had also qualified in the discus 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.
Grier Osterman competed in the 300 hurdles and the triple jump for Limestone-MSSM.
In Class B action, the Caribou boys were able to score 16 points which put them in the middle of the pack of the 27-team field. Waterville was the winner with 96, followed by Falmouth with 87.5
Austin Griffeth earned half of the Viking points by placing second in the 1,600-meter race walk with a time of 8:43.46.
Grant Bennett was fourth in the discus throw with a mark of 126 feet, Brendan Wood came in sixth in the 300-meter hurdles in 44.45 seconds and Ron Lund was sixth in the 3,200-meter run in 10:20.04 to account for the team’s other points.
Other Viking state qualifiers were Lund, Elijah Verhoff, Alex Losieniecki and Lucas Kinney in the 4×800-meter relay; Wood, Kameron Manter, Losieniecki and Sean Barbosa in the 4×400-meter relay; Wood in the 110 hurdles, Manter in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, Mitchell St. Peter in the 1,600-meter race walk, Barbosa in the pole vault and Bennett in the javelin.
Caribou was shut out in the girls’ B meet. Waterville won with 136 points and Lake Region was second with 64.
Competing for the Vikes were the 4×800 relay team of Chelsea Bard, Alissa Randolph, Kristin Macek and Nerissa Larrabee; the 4×100 relay team of Reanna Plourde, Mackenzie Deveau, Eileen Patton and Olivia Sleeper; the 4×400 relay team of Deveau, Patton, Sarah Doak and Sleeper; as well as Patton in the 100 and 300 hurdles, Plourde in the 100, Alissa Irving and Meredith Sleeper in the race walk, Doak in the 1,600, Deveau in the 400, Olivia Sleeper in the 800, Bard in the 3,200, Larrabee in the 3,200 and the high jump and Hannah Hebert in the triple jump.
