Reliving the state meets

Kate Hall of Lake Region won 3 individual events (100, 200m, LJ) plus a win in the 4x100m relay. Hall set a state all-time best in the long jump 18-5 3/4, and broke the Class B state meet record in the 100m, 12.12 seconds. photo©kevinmorris.com

 

Cony senior Lindsey Folsom broke the Class A pole vault record, jumping 11-7. It was Folsom's 3rd Class A outdoor title. Watch her record-breaking vault

Ellsworth junior Dan Curts and Gray New Gloucester's Will Shafer had an epic duel in the Class B 1600m, Curts would win the race in a Class B state meer record of 4:14.02, while Shafer finished 2nd, he also was faster than the meet record. photo©kevinmorris.com

 

Brewer's Teal Jackson won 4 individual events in the Class A state meet, a feat that has only been accomplished one other time in recent memory (Jesse LaBreck-Messalonskee). Jackson won the 100m, 200m, 400m & long jump. In the 400m, she ran 57.0 to establish a new Maine all-time best and Class A state meert record. Watch the video of the record breaking performance.

 

Waterville senior Bethanie Brown won all three distance events in the Class B state meet, she added a state meet record in the 800m, 2:16.50. Brown know has the 1600m, 3200m, & 800m Class B state meet records on her resume. She led her team to a 7th straight Class B team title. photo©kevinmorris.com

 

NYA'S Jake Burns won the Class C Boys 300m hurdles title as he clocked a personal best 40.15

 

Andrew Toothaker of Hampden Academy was the victor in the Class A 300m hurdles race, Toothaker a senior ran a state leading 39.79

 

Wells senior Denzel Tomaszewski repeated as the 100m champion, running 11.01, which just missed the Class B state meet record of 11.0. Tomaszewski added an individual win in the 200m, and lead off the victorious 4x100m relay. photo©kevinmorris.com

 

Foxcroft Academy's Donald Boyer led his team to victory. The senior broke the Class C State meet record in the 110m hurdles, running 15.05. Boyer also won the long jump with a leap of 21-10. Photo by Marty Thornton (click to visit her website with more photo)

 

In the longest race of the day had one of the closest results on the day. Freshman Anne McKee of Kents Hill & Sophomore Lake Kerrigan of Seacoast had an epic duel in the 3200m. Kerrigan would come from behind to edge McKee 11:52.33 to 11:52.35! Earlier in the meet McKee won the 1660m with Kerrigan second. Photo by Marty Thornton (click to visit her website with more photo)

 

The one athlete everyone was talking about at the Class A state meet was Lewiston sophomore Isaiah Harris who ran a 1:54 plit in the 4x800m relay to lead his team to a runner-up finish, he did that one better in the open 800m as he broke the Class A state meet record clocking a 4 second personal best with a 1:54.17. Watch the record breaking performance