South Portland girls, Scarborough Boys best in Cumberland County Championship
South Portland girls showed their dominance on the track as the Red Riots won 6 individual track events plus two relays, in the 3 other running events they earned runner-up finishes. That quality led to 104 of the 145.5 they scored in the meet.
Leading the way was double individual winner Lauren Magnuson who crossed the line first in the 100m clocking a 12.94, she followed that up with a seasonal best 26.52 effort in the 200m, that marked moved her up to #3 in Class A.
Magnuson also ran key legs on the victorious 4x100m relay (51.71) & 4x400m relay (4:20.51). The 4x400m time is the fastest in Class A this spring while the 4x100 relay is the Class A #2 time.
Distance runner Casey Loring showed great finishing speed as she took the 1600m in a time of 5:28.77 then came back with another victory in the 800m using a powerful kick to move from 4th to 1st over the final 150m. Loring's winning time in the 800m was 2:28.85, the margin of victory was just .01 over Halee Phelps of Westbrook.
Freshman Juliana Selser showed she's going be one to watch over the next couple of weeks as she sped to a South Portland school record in the 400m as she broke the sixty second barrier for the first time with her Class A #3 effort of 59.83. Selser also ran key legs on the 4x100 & 4x400m teams.
Hurdler Callie O'Brien had a strong day as she took the 300m hurdles with a time of 49.31 moving her to the 5th best time in Class A. In the shorter 100m hurdles O'Brien finished as the runner-up with an effort of 16.49.
Javelin thrower Michelle Medici added 10 more points with her winning heave of 100-02.
Gorham's Anna Slager was impressive in the 3200m as the freshman had a huge negative split en route to her state leading time of 11:31.20.
Scarborough opened the meet in the 4x800m running a quick 10:18.50 which is the #2 time in Class A this spring.
The Red Storm who finished 2nd to South Portland in the team scoring, got a win from sophomore Ellen Shaw in the 100m hurdles as she broke the 16 second barrier with a 15.96 effort. In the high jump senior Sarah Rinaldi cleared a seasonal best 5-2 to win the high jump, that marked moves her into a tie for the second best jump in Class A. Another winner for Scarborough was Kacey Foerster who won the pole vault with a 8-6 clearance.
Other winners where Milena Opielowski of Cheverus who had a leap of 16-0 1/4 to win the long jump, while Madison Bolduc of Portland had no equal in the triple jump as she bounded out to 34-8 to win the event by 2 1/2 feet.
In the throws Westbrook's Genna Alhilfi threw 33-10 to best the rest of the field, while Emily Grinnell of Cheverus was the only one over one hundred feet with her 102-5 winning effort.
Haley Bickford of Gorham dominated the 1600m race walk as she was the only competitor under nine minutes with her 8:33.06
The Scarborough boys used 4 individual first place finish plus 2 relays wins to total 147.5 points to outdistance runner-up Cheverus by 47.5 points.
The Red Storm got the meet started with a new state leading mark in the 4x800 as the quartet of William Fowler, Jacob Bloom Colin Tardiff & Colin Jones clocked 8:18.03. In the 110m hurdles junior Griffin Madden ran a personal best 15.24 to lead a 1-2 finish with senior Maxim Doiron in 15.46 finishing second. Madden would also run the third leg on the winning 4x100m relay squad as they held off a challenge from Cheverus crossing the line first in 45.36.
In the pole vault senior Edward James cleared a seasonal best 12-6 to take top honors while fellow senior Jacob Bloom led the 800m from start to finish winning in a time of 2:05.05. In the 3200m, junior Colin Tardiff clocked a sub ten minute effort as he broke away from the pack after 5 laps on his way to a personal best 9:57.6, the time is ranks him #4 in Class A.
Cheverus who finished as the team runner-up had a strong day as well. Leading the way on the track was senior sprint star Jake Dixon who easily won the 400m in 50.35, then came back to clock a personal best 22.67 in the 200m as he was the only one in the field under 23 seconds. To close the night out Dixon anchored the state leading 4x400m to victory with a 50.x split, the effort for the Stags was 3:31.02
The Stags also got wins from senior Nick White who took the discus title with a heave of 162-3 as he edged out the state leader Daniel Guiliani of South Portland by a little over 2ft. Senior Jacob Schott added 10 more points as he was the only one to clear 5-10 in the high jump.
The host Red Riots of South Portland has a strong showing as they took 5 events wins on the evening. Senior standout Michael Cuesta was the only individual to win 3 individual events. Cuesta won his speciality the triple jump with an outdoor personal best of 45-0 on his final attempt, he dominated the long jump getting out to 20-7 1/2, the next closest competitor jumped 18-10. On the track, Cuesta surprised with his victory in the 100m dash, as he raced to a personal best 11.40.
Junior thrower Dan Guiliani didn’t have his best day by his standards in the shot put, but let’s put that into context his winning effort of 64-9 1/4 was still over 3ft further than anyone has thrown in state history. While in the 1600m Jacob Maloney was the surprise winner as he used a strong kick to blow away the field over the last 200m as he crossed the line first in 4:41.93
The 300m hurdle race was one of the best on the evening, as Paolo DeMarco a junior from Deering pulled away from the field over the last two hurdle as he clocked a state leading 41.11. Behind him Maxim Doiron of Scarborough ran 41.40 the #2 time in Class A followed by Diego Ramirez of South Portland in 41.52 the #3 time in Class A.
Gorham’s Drew York continued his dominance in the 1600m race walk as he was under seven minutes with his effort of 6:56.40, his winning margin was 44 seconds. Windham’s Thomas Sappier won the javelin with a toss of 139-10.
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- Girls Hurdles Final
- Boys Hurdles Final
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- Boys 100 Final
- Girls 300 Hurdles Section 3
- Girls 4x100 Section 1
- Boys 1600 Section 1
- Girls 1600 Section 1
- Girls 800 Section 1
Elite Performances
Girls (103) | |||||
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1600RW | F 1 1st | 8:33.06 | Hayley Bickford | Gorham High School | |
1600RW | F 1 2nd | 9:01.12 | Abby Donahue | South Portland High School | |
1600RW | F 1 3rd | 9:13.07 | Leanna Gray | Gorham High School | |
1600RW | F 1 4th | 9:33.27 | Emma Downey | Catherine McAuley High School | |
1600RW | F 1 5th | 9:43.71 | Sarah Flanders | Gorham High School | |
100m | F 1 1st | 12.94 | Lauren Magnuson | South Portland High School | |
100m | F 1 2nd | 13.08 | Kristin Benson | Gorham High School | |
100m | F 1 3rd | 13.22 | Juliana Selser | South Portland High School | |
100m | F 1 4th | 13.25 | Alex Lewis | Windham High School | |
100m | F 1 5th | 13.39 | Kayleigh Smith | Gorham High School | |
100m | F 1 6th | 13.70 | Courtney Arsenault | Westbrook High School | |
100m | F 1 7th | 13.86 | Amanda Turner | Windham High School | |
100m | p 1 1st | 13.26 | Lauren Magnuson | South Portland High School | |
100m | p 1 2nd | 13.27 | Kristin Benson | Gorham High School | |
100m | p 1 3rd | 13.52 | Kayleigh Smith | Gorham High School | |
100m | p 1 4th | 13.54 | Juliana Selser | South Portland High School | |
100m | p 1 5th | 13.71 | Alex Lewis | Windham High School | |
100m | p 1 6th | 13.72 | Courtney Arsenault | Westbrook High School | |
100m | p 1 7th | 13.88 | Amanda Turner | Windham High School | |
100m | p 1 8th | 13.90 | Simone Lauture | Deering High School | |
200m | F 1 1st | 26.52 | Lauren Magnuson | South Portland High School | |
200m | F 1 2nd | 26.81 | Kristin Benson | Gorham High School | |
200m | F 1 3rd | 27.35 | Kelsey Cavanaugh | Westbrook High School | |
200m | F 1 4th | 28.16 | Courtney Arsenault | Westbrook High School | |
200m | F 1 5th | 28.39 | Kayla Griffis | Scarborough High School | |
200m | F 1 6th | 28.41 | Simone Lauture | Deering High School | |
200m | F 1 7th | 28.52 | Gaby Panagakos | Scarborough High School | |
200m | F 1 8th | 28.53 | Nicola Ciccomancini | Deering High School | |
400m | F 1 1st | 59.83 | Juliana Selser | South Portland High School | |
400m | F 1 2nd | 1:01.52 | Emily Turner | Cheverus High School | |
400m | F 1 3rd | 1:03.55 | Julia Rand | Windham High School | |
400m | F 1 4th | 1:05.01 | Amanda Turner | Windham High School | |
400m | F 1 5th | 1:05.74 | Ayla Sheets | Windham High School | |
800m | F 1 1st | 2:28.85 | Casey Loring | South Portland High School | |
800m | F 1 2nd | 2:28.86 | Halee Phelps | Westbrook High School | |
800m | F 1 3rd | 2:29.68 | Samantha Saraceno | Scarborough High School | |
800m | F 1 4th | 2:30.99 | Nicole Whipkey | Deering High School | |
800m | F 1 5th | 2:32.28 | Emma Koukos | Scarborough High School | |
800m | F 1 6th | 2:33.81 | Meadow Fortier | Gorham High School | |
800m | F 1 7th | 2:35.20 | Maggie Hosmer | Portland High School | |
1600m | F 1 1st | 5:28.77 | Casey Loring | South Portland High School | |
1600m | F 1 2nd | 5:29.97 | Laura Volan | Scarborough High School | |
1600m | F 1 3rd | 5:33.53 | Bethany Sholl | Scarborough High School | |
1600m | F 1 4th | 5:33.86 | Serena Mckenzie | South Portland High School | |
1600m | F 1 5th | 5:46.11 | Georgia Caso | Cheverus High School | |
1600m | F 1 6th | 5:53.13 | Lucy Malia | Scarborough High School | |
3200m | F 1 1st | 11:31.20 | Anna Slager | Gorham High School | |
3200m | F 1 2nd | 11:41.20 | Serena Mckenzie | South Portland High School | |
3200m | F 1 3rd | 12:16.40 | Laura Volan | Scarborough High School | |
100H | F 1 1st | 15.96 | Ellen Shaw | Scarborough High School | |
100H | F 1 2nd | 16.49 | Callie O'brien | South Portland High School | |
100H | F 1 3rd | 17.30 | Sarah Mount | Cheverus High School | |
100H | F 1 4th | 17.46 | Meg Knights | Windham High School | |
100H | F 1 5th | 18.21 | Katie Farrell | Deering High School | |
100H | p 1 1st | 16.82 | Callie O'brien | South Portland High School | |
100H | p 1 2nd | 17.03 | Ellen Shaw | Scarborough High School | |
100H | p 1 3rd | 17.87 | Sarah Mount | Cheverus High School | |
100H | p 1 4th | 18.05 | Meg Knights | Windham High School | |
300H | F 1 1st | 49.31 | Callie O'brien | South Portland High School | |
300H | F 1 2nd | 49.42 | Sarah Mount | Cheverus High School | |
300H | F 1 3rd | 50.67 | Katelyn Gendron | Cheverus High School | |
300H | F 1 4th | 50.73 | Brianna Barlow | Westbrook High School | |
300H | F 1 5th | 51.75 | Ellen Shaw | Scarborough High School | |
300H | F 1 6th | 53.09 | Katie Farrell | Deering High School | |
300H | F 1 7th | 53.26 | Annah Rossvall | Deering High School | |
4x100m | F 1 1st | 51.71 | South Portland High School | ||
4x100m | F 1 2nd | 52.59 | Gorham High School | ||
4x100m | F 1 3rd | 52.68 | Scarborough High School | ||
4x100m | F 1 4th | 53.07 | Westbrook High School | ||
4x400m | F 1 1st | 4:20.51 | South Portland High School | ||
4x800m | F 1 1st | 10:18.50 | Scarborough High School | ||
HJ | F 1 1st | 5-2 | Sarah Rinaldi | Scarborough High School | |
HJ | F 1 2nd | 5-0 | Alexis Wintle | Windham High School | |
HJ | F 1 3rd | 4-10 | Ellen Shaw | Scarborough High School | |
HJ | F 1 4th | 4-10 | Callie O'brien | South Portland High School | |
HJ | F 1 5th | 4-8 | Jordyn Cowan | Scarborough High School | |
HJ | F 1 5th | 4-8 | Edita Isakovic | South Portland High School | |
HJ | F 1 7th | 4-8 | Julia Pomerleau | Cheverus High School | |
LJ | F 1 1st | 16-0.25 | Milena Opielowski | Cheverus High School | |
LJ | F 1 2nd | 16-0 | Katelyn Gendron | Cheverus High School | |
LJ | F 1 3rd | 15-10.5 | Madison Bolduc | Portland High School | |
TJ | F 1 1st | 34-8 | Madison Bolduc | Portland High School | |
TJ | F 1 2nd | 32-3 | Katelyn Gendron | Cheverus High School | |
TJ | F 1 3rd | 31-11.75 | Sarah Rinaldi | Scarborough High School | |
TJ | F 1 4th | 31-9.25 | Alexis Wintle | Windham High School | |
TJ | F 1 5th | 31-9 | Kelly Dyer | Westbrook High School | |
TJ | F 1 6th | 30-9 | Alex Lewis | Windham High School | |
TJ | F 1 7th | 30-8 | Milena Opielowski | Cheverus High School | |
PV | F 1 1st | 8-6 | Kacey Foerster | Scarborough High School | |
PV | F 1 2nd | 8-6 | Bridget Rossignol | Gorham High School | |
PV | F 1 3rd | 8-0 | Edie Christian | Scarborough High School | |
PV | F 1 4th | 7-6 | Maria Quartararo | Scarborough High School | |
PV | F 1 5th | 7-6 | Samantha Witkowski | Catherine McAuley High School | |
D | F 1 1st | 102-5 | Emily Grinnell | Cheverus High School | |
D | F 1 2nd | 92-6 | Neilab Habibzai | Deering High School | |
D | F 1 3rd | 87-11 | Genna Alhilfi | Westbrook High School | |
D | F 1 4th | 86-6 | Julia Linevitch | Windham High School | |
J | F 1 1st | 100-2 | Michelle Medici | South Portland High School | |
J | F 1 2nd | 88-6 | Emily Grinnell | Cheverus High School | |
J | F 1 3rd | 87-11 | Maura Gallagher | Windham High School | |
S | F 1 1st | 33-10 | Genna Alhilfi | Westbrook High School | |
S | F 1 2nd | 31-7 | Neilab Habibzai | Deering High School | |
S | F 1 3rd | 31-0.5 | Blanca Monson | Gorham High School | |
Boys (108) | |||||
1600RW | F 1 1st | 6:56.40 | Drew York | Gorham High School | |
1600RW | F 1 2nd | 7:40.13 | Sean Pratt | Gorham High School | |
1600RW | F 1 3rd | 7:44.79 | Spencer Linscott | Gorham High School | |
1600RW | F 1 4th | 7:45.86 | Steven Smith | South Portland High School | |
1600RW | F 1 5th | 7:50.57 | James Falconer | South Portland High School | |
1600RW | F 1 6th | 8:42.12 | Carlos Monsen | Gorham High School | |
100m | F 1 1st | 11.40 | Michael Cuesta | South Portland High School | |
100m | F 1 2nd | 11.45 | Ernie Ruby | Windham High School | |
100m | F 1 3rd | 11.51 | Maurice Johnson | Westbrook High School | |
100m | F 1 4th | 11.58 | Pavel Bobe | Portland High School | |
100m | F 1 5th | 11.72 | Michael Granzier | Scarborough High School | |
100m | F 1 6th | 11.74 | Luke Trickey | Cheverus High School | |
100m | p 1 1st | 11.30 | Hany Ramadan | Deering High School | |
100m | p 1 2nd | 11.66 | Maurice Johnson | Westbrook High School | |
100m | p 1 3rd | 11.70 | Michael Cuesta | South Portland High School | |
100m | p 1 4th | 11.71 | Ernie Ruby | Windham High School | |
100m | p 1 5th | 11.91 | Luke Trickey | Cheverus High School | |
100m | p 1 6th | 12.00 | Michael Granzier | Scarborough High School | |
200m | F 1 1st | 22.67 | Jake Dixon | Cheverus High School | |
200m | F 1 2nd | 23.58 | Jerry Kenney | Scarborough High School | |
200m | F 1 3rd | 24.00 | Pavel Bobe | Portland High School | |
200m | F 1 4th | 24.31 | Chris Dionne | Scarborough High School | |
200m | F 1 5th | 24.46 | Cameron Hoffses | Windham High School | |
200m | F 1 6th | 24.53 | Kenny Drelich | Cheverus High School | |
200m | F 1 7th | 24.56 | Luke Trickey | Cheverus High School | |
400m | F 1 1st | 50.35 | Jake Dixon | Cheverus High School | |
400m | F 1 2nd | 52.86 | Jerry Kenney | Scarborough High School | |
400m | F 1 3rd | 54.21 | Gerald Wagner | Cheverus High School | |
400m | F 1 4th | 54.73 | Ernie Ruby | Windham High School | |
400m | F 1 5th | 55.30 | Nathaniel Nadeau | Gorham High School | |
400m | F 1 6th | 55.40 | Nshuti Gato | Westbrook High School | |
800m | F 1 1st | 2:05.05 | Jacob Bloom | Scarborough High School | |
800m | F 1 2nd | 2:06.67 | Ethan Orach | Gorham High School | |
800m | F 1 3rd | 2:06.76 | James Hannigan | Cheverus High School | |
800m | F 1 4th | 2:09.26 | Colin Jones | Scarborough High School | |
800m | F 1 5th | 2:09.95 | Drew York | Gorham High School | |
1600m | F 1 1st | 4:41.90 | Jake Maloney | South Portland High School | |
1600m | F 1 2nd | 4:44.10 | Yahya Hussein | Deering High School | |
1600m | F 1 3rd | 4:44.20 | Josh Lombardo | Westbrook High School | |
1600m | F 1 4th | 4:45.10 | Andrew Sholl | Scarborough High School | |
1600m | F 1 5th | 4:46.20 | Iid Sheikh-Yusuf | Deering High School | |
1600m | F 1 6th | 4:50.70 | Luther Williams | Westbrook High School | |
3200m | F 1 1st | 9:57.60 | Colin Tardiff | Scarborough High School | |
3200m | F 1 2nd | 10:00.00 | Ben Breton | Windham High School | |
3200m | F 1 3rd | 10:00.10 | Iid Sheikh-Yusuf | Deering High School | |
3200m | F 1 4th | 10:02.30 | Jesse Southard | Gorham High School | |
3200m | F 1 5th | 10:11.50 | Josh Lombardo | Westbrook High School | |
3200m | F 1 6th | 10:19.60 | Connor Doherty | Scarborough High School | |
3200m | F 1 7th | 10:24.50 | Yahya Hussein | Deering High School | |
110H | F 1 1st | 15.24 | Griffin Madden | Scarborough High School | |
110H | F 1 2nd | 15.46 | Maxim Doiron | Scarborough High School | |
110H | F 1 3rd | 15.72 | Paulo Demarco | Deering High School | |
110H | F 1 4th | 16.02 | Diego Ramirez | South Portland High School | |
110H | F 1 5th | 16.30 | Shammah Gahomera | Westbrook High School | |
110H | F 1 6th | 16.53 | Branden Kuusela | Gorham High School | |
110H | F 1 7th | 16.83 | Jacob Schott | Cheverus High School | |
110H | p 1 1st | 15.75 | Griffin Madden | Scarborough High School | |
110H | p 1 2nd | 16.08 | Paulo Demarco | Deering High School | |
110H | p 1 3rd | 16.09 | Maxim Doiron | Scarborough High School | |
110H | p 1 4th | 16.72 | Diego Ramirez | South Portland High School | |
110H | p 1 5th | 16.86 | Shammah Gahomera | Westbrook High School | |
110H | p 1 6th | 17.15 | Jacob Schott | Cheverus High School | |
110H | p 1 7th | 17.39 | Branden Kuusela | Gorham High School | |
110H | p 1 8th | 17.79 | Quintin Farr | Cheverus High School | |
300H | F 1 1st | 41.11 | Paulo Demarco | Deering High School | |
300H | F 1 2nd | 41.40 | Maxim Doiron | Scarborough High School | |
300H | F 1 3rd | 41.52 | Diego Ramirez | South Portland High School | |
300H | F 1 4th | 42.46 | Branden Kuusela | Gorham High School | |
300H | F 1 5th | 42.99 | Quintin Farr | Cheverus High School | |
300H | F 1 6th | 43.01 | Isaiah Manoogian | Westbrook High School | |
300H | F 1 7th | 43.23 | Shammah Gahomera | Westbrook High School | |
300H | F 1 8th | 44.90 | Connor Langlois | Scarborough High School | |
4x100m | F 1 1st | 45.36 | Scarborough High School | ||
4x100m | F 1 2nd | 45.60 | Cheverus High School | ||
4x400m | F 1 1st | 3:31.02 | Cheverus High School | ||
4x400m | F 1 2nd | 3:37.18 | Scarborough High School | ||
4x800m | F 1 1st | 8:18.03 | Scarborough High School | ||
HJ | F 1 1st | 5-10 | Jacob Schott | Cheverus High School | |
HJ | F 1 2nd | 5-8 | Jacob Coon | Deering High School | |
LJ | F 1 1st | 20-7.5 | Michael Cuesta | South Portland High School | |
LJ | F 1 2nd | 18-10 | Jacob Coon | Deering High School | |
LJ | F 1 3rd | 18-9.5 | Stephen Burns | Gorham High School | |
TJ | F 1 1st | 45-0 | Michael Cuesta | South Portland High School | |
TJ | F 1 2nd | 40-2 | Ezra Chapola | Deering High School | |
TJ | F 1 3rd | 39-10 | Comlan Sedjro | South Portland High School | |
TJ | F 1 4th | 39-10 | Michael Granzier | Scarborough High School | |
TJ | F 1 5th | 39-6.5 | Jacob Schott | Cheverus High School | |
TJ | F 1 6th | 39-3.5 | Jacob Coon | Deering High School | |
PV | F 1 1st | 12-6 | Edward James | Scarborough High School | |
PV | F 1 2nd | 12-0 | Rory Sullivan | Windham High School | |
PV | F 1 3rd | 11-6 | Sam Rusak | Scarborough High School | |
PV | F 1 4th | 11-0 | Tommy Pequinot | Gorham High School | |
PV | F 1 5th | 10-6 | Alex Dionne | Scarborough High School | |
PV | F 1 6th | 10-6 | Michael Cuesta | South Portland High School | |
D | F 1 1st | 162-3 | Nick White | Cheverus High School | |
D | F 1 2nd | 160-0 | Daniel Guiliani | South Portland High School | |
D | F 1 3rd | 150-6 | Hugh McSorley | Scarborough High School | |
D | F 1 4th | 132-1 | Raffaele Salamone | Deering High School | |
D | F 1 5th | 127-2 | Thomas Sappier | Windham High School | |
D | F 1 6th | 119-10 | Xavier Mills | South Portland High School | |
J | F 1 1st | 139-10 | Thomas Sappier | Windham High School | |
J | F 1 2nd | 135-4 | Raffaele Salamone | Deering High School | |
S | F 1 1st | 64-9.25 | Daniel Guiliani | South Portland High School | |
S | F 1 2nd | 52-0.75 | Nick White | Cheverus High School | |
S | F 1 3rd | 50-4.25 | Hugh McSorley | Scarborough High School | |
S | F 1 4th | 43-9.5 | Thomas Sappier | Windham High School | |
S | F 1 5th | 41-4 | Cedric Smith | Portland High School | |
S | F 1 6th | 40-10 | Kyle Mandell | Windham High School |