Horne & Libby Reign Supreme in WMC XC Conference Championship
Jack Bassett of Cape wins D1 while Olivia Skillings of MCW takes D2, Cape & Maine Coast Waldorf girls win team titles, Freeport & Wells boys victorious.
Junior Lily Horne of Freeport (Flo50#6) took the early lead in the WMC XC Championship race and held it throughout the race as she was the only finisher to break 20 minutes on the challenging layout at St Joseph's College in Standish. Horne's winning effort was 19:54 holding off a strong effort from Cape Elizabeth freshman Lila Gaudrault (Flo50 #12) who was nine seconds back at 20:03.
Fryeburg senior Emily Carty ran to a third place finish in 20:35, while Olivia Skillings of Maine Coast Waldorf ran 20:48 good for fourth overall. Skillings was the top female in the D2 scoring. Freshman Olivia Reynolds
also of Maine Coast Waldorf ran 21:12 to finish fifth.
Yarmouth standout Anneka Murrin (Flo50 #9) ran with her teammate Greta Elder as the pair finished sixth and seventh overall. They were followed by Cape's Camilla Grosso, and Poland's Olivia Ouellette. St Dominic Academy's Alexandra Hammerton rounded out the top ten with a time of 21:53.
In the D1 girls team race with Greely not running their varsity squad, Cape Elizabeth cruised to the team team title with 48 points. The Capers averaged 21:48 with a pack time of 2:49. York running with top runner Kathryn Miller raced well to finish second with 57 points. Fryeburg Academy rounded out the top three with 67.
In D2, Maine Coast Waldorf stood above the rest as they tallied 42 points with a 22:12 average to outdistance runner-up Waynflete by 22 points, Wells was third with 73.
DI Girls Top 10 Individuals
1 Lily Horne 11 Freeport High School 19:54.00 1 2 Lila Gaudrault 9 Cape Elizabeth High School 20:03.00 2 3 Emily Carty 12 Fryeburg Academy 20:35.00 3 4 Anneka Murrin 12 Yarmouth High School 21:23.00 4 5 Greta Elder 12 Yarmouth High School 21:24.00 5 6 Camilla Grosso 11 Cape Elizabeth High School 21:29.00 6 7 Sydney Fogg 10 York High School 22:05.00 7 8 Zoe Maguire 11 Fryeburg Academy 22:06.00 8 9 Laura Kenealy 12 York High School 22:10.00 9 10 Mary Kate Hayes 11 Cape Elizabeth High School 22:14.00 10
D2 Girls Top 10 Individuals
1 Olivia Skillings 12 Maine Coast Waldorf 20:48.00 1 2 Olivia Reynolds 9 Maine Coast Waldorf 21:12.00 2 3 Olivia Ouellette 10 Poland Regional High School 21:48.00 3 4 Alexandra Hammerton 11 St. Dominic Regional High School 21:53.00 4 5 Abby Pipkin 12 Waynflete School 21:55.00 5 6 Caroline Gastonguay 12 St. Dominic Regional High School 22:12.00 6 7 Anna Wildes 10 Waynflete School 22:13.00 7 8 Heidi Fortin 11 Wells High School 22:26.00 8 9 Leeza Kopaeva 12 Waynflete School 22:30.00 9 10 Mamie Whittier 9 Maine Coast Waldorf 22:32.00 10

Flo50 #2 Mitch Libby of Wells showed why he's one of the top individuals as he cruised to win at the WMC XC Championship covering the 5k layout at St Joseph's College in 16:55 to outdistance the rest of the field by 35 seconds.
Libby and Sacopee Valley senior Troy Hendricks (Flo50 #13) went through the mile together in 5:11, Libby would open up a gap during the second mile which is largely downhill the first half, before climbing over the second half and never look back.
Cape Elizabeth sophomore Jack Bassett closed well over the final mile to move past Hendricks. Bassett's finishing time was 17:30 edging Hendricks by three seconds. Basset was the top individual in the D1 race. Next came Griffin Allaire of Wells in 17:38 giving the Warriors two low sticks.
Henry Spritz of Waynflete edged fellow Class C rival Nick Neveu of Maine Coast Waldorf for fifth place, 17:46 to 17:47.
A pair of Freeport Falcons came next with Alex Les in seventh and freshman Martin Horne in eighth. Next was Alfie Walker of Fryeburg followed by Nicolas Giandrea of Greely in tenth.
In the D1 team race Flo50#2 Greely rested their varsity squad, and Freeport took advantage of the opportunity as the Falcons placed 4 runners in the top 7 as they scored 37 points. The Falcons averaged 18:26. Cape Elizabeth was the runner-up with 57 points while Greely showed depth to finish third with 61 points.
In the D2 race Flo50 #6 Wells cruised to the team title for the second year in a row as the Warriors tallied 39 points with an 18:21 team average. Maine Coast Waldorf was the runner-up with 63, with Lake Region finishing third with 89 points.
DI Boys Top 10 Individuals
1 Jack Bassett 10 Cape Elizabeth High School 17:30.00 1 2 Alex Les 11 Freeport High School 17:51.00 2 3 Martin Horne 9 Freeport High School 17:53.00 3 4 Alfie Walker 11 Fryeburg Academy 18:22.00 4 5 Nicholas Giandrea 11 Greely High School 18:25.00 5 6 Thomas Doyle 12 Freeport High School 18:33.00 6 7 Heath Cockburn 10 Freeport High School 18:35.00 7 8 Parker Morse 11 Gray New Gloucester High School 18:43.00 8 9 Arsen Scheindel 12 Cape Elizabeth High School 18:46.00 9 10 Andrew Storey 11 Greely High School 18:48.00 10
D2 Boys Top 10 Individuals
1 Mitch Libby 12 Wells High School 16:55.00 1 2 Troy Hendricks 12 Sacopee Valley High School 17:33.00 0 3 Griffin Allaire 10 Wells High School 17:38.00 2 4 Henry Spritz 11 Waynflete School 17:46.00 3 5 Nick Neveu 12 Maine Coast Waldorf 17:47.00 4 6 Nate Casali 9 Lake Region High School 18:39.00 5 7 Mark D'Alessandro 10 St. Dominic Regional High School 18:41.00 6 8 Mitch Stapleton 12 Wells High School 18:42.00 7 9 Dalan Hubbard 12 Traip Academy 18:45.00 8 10 Finn Dierks-brown 11 Maine Coast Waldorf 18:49.00 9