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Class A Boys
Individual Defending champion Nick Morris of Scarborough is on track to win his 2nd Class A state title in a row, but he'll have plenty of compeitition. Morris is coming off win at the WM regional where he won by 18 seconds. Nick will have a slight edge over those from Eastern Maine having the experience edge as he has run the course at Twin Brook's several times, including wins in the last 2 Western Maine championships. Harlow Ladd the Eastern Maine championship the past two years is hungry to claim his first xc state championship. Ladd was leading the race last year at the mile, but slipped in some mud, and strained a muscle. Harlow won the EM title by 4 seconds over Benson Worthington (Brunswick). Worthington may be the hottest runner in the field, he has made name for himself the last two weeks with runner-up finishes in the KVAC & EM Regional. Don't count out last year's state runner-up Andy Reifman-Packett of Mt Ararat who led after the mile last year until the finishing stretch. Reifman-Packett has been 3rd the last two weeks, but has shown a knack for raising his level in the state championship meets the past 2 years. From the West also watch for Chris Dunn of Kennebunk who was the WM Regional runner-up using a strong last mile last week to pull away from a pack.
Check out the Eastern & Western Maine Regional results combined (Please note this is all the times combined, no course adjustments have been made)
Top 10 Western Maine Regional 2011
1 Nick Morris SR Scarborough 17:03.30 1 2 Chris Dunn SR Kennebunk 17:21.87 2 3 Bryant Perkins SR Sanford High School 17:33.15 3 4 Cameron Nadeau JR Biddeford 17:37.75 4 5 Ben Allen FR Portland 17:41.41 5 6 Keegan Brennan SR Windham High School 17:44.76 6 7 Ian Morris SO Scarborough 17:55.17 7 8 Cody Vachon JR Massabesic 17:56.42 8 9 Robby Hall JR Scarborough 18:00.30 9 10 Thomas Dean SR Deering High School 18:00.91 10
Top 10 Eastern Maine Regional 2011
1 Harlow Ladd SR Messalonskee 16:41.34 1 2 Benson Worthington SR Brunswick 16:45.57 2 3 Andy Reifman-Packett SR Mt. Ararat 16:53.77 3 4 Justin Tracy JR Mt. Blue 17:07.37 4 5 Mohamed Barre JR Lewiston 17:13.76 5 6 Mohamed Awil JR Lewiston 17:25.31 6 7 Andrew Closson SR Hampden Academy 17:28.27 7 8 Jamie Ross SO Brunswick 17:30.19 8 9 Sully Jackson JR Mt. Blue 17:31.36 9 10 Jonathan Stanhope SO Bangor High School 17:34.91 10
Top 10 returners from 2010
1 Nick Morris JR Scarborough 16:25.20 1 2 Andy Reifman-Packett JR Mt. Ararat 16:28.80 -- 3 Harlow Ladd JR Messalonskee 16:53.00 -- 4 Bryant Perkins JR Sanford High School 17:03.60 2 5 Chris Dunn JR Kennebunk 17:06.50 3 6 Keegan Brennan JR Windham High School 17:11.10 4 7 Robby Hall SO Scarborough 17:16.20 5 8 Cameron Nadeau SO Biddeford 17:22.10 -- 9 Jonah Jones JR Mt. Blue 17:22.20 -- 10 Kevin Lavertu JR Lewiston 17:31.90 --
Team
Defending Class A Champion Scarborough is the favorite to repeat this weekend. The Red Storm have been the top team in Class A all fall, and backed that up with a dominating win in the Western Regional last weekend. They were the only team under 100 points as they tallied 61. South Portland was the regional runner-up, they didn't have a runner in the top 12, but had only a 36 spread for runners 1-5. Massabesic was just 9 points back of the Red Riots last week, they'll need to move up a bit to challenge as they only beat they at the #1 position. Eastern Maine champion Bangor will look to continue their turnaround with some state meet hardware. They had a 35 second spread for their top 5. They'll need to get more runners up front if they are going to challenge for the top spot. Mt. Ararat was the EM runner-up finishing 12 points behind the Rams with Messalonskee in 3rd another 6 points back. The Eagles got a huge boost when Senior Cam Dick returned to the lineup, running to a 14th place finish. Can anyone challenge the Red Storm? That remains to be seen, they look like a lock to win their 6 title in the last 8 years, with everyone else battling for the runner-up trophy
2010 Top 6 Results
1 Scarborough High School 71 2 Mt. Ararat High School 96 3 Massabesic High School 123 4 Gorham High School 138 5 Edward Little High School 143 6 Mt. Blue High School 158
Eastern Maine State Qualifying Teams 2011 Regional Results
1 Bangor High School 91 2 Mt. Ararat High School 103 3 Messalonskee High School 109 4 Lewiston High School 122 5 Hampden Academy 136 6 Brunswick High School 141
Western Maine State Qualifying Teams 2011 Regional Results
1 Scarborough High School 61 2 South Portland High Schoo 101 3 Massabesic High School 110 4 Windham High School 136 5 Cheverus 147 6 Portland High School 154
Class A Girls
Individual: Abbey Leoanrdi will be shooting to join an excluisve club when she runs for her 4th straight Class A girls state xc title on Saturday. Abbey has been a dominate runner in her 4 years, setting numerous course records, and only losing once in the state of Maine. Leonardi showed she's as fit as ever as she set a course record at Twin Brook, 18:05.59 on her way to winning the WM regional by 1:10 seconds. She enters the meet as a heavy favorite. Watch for EM regional champion Erzsebet Nagy of Lawrence who has had a great first year of xc, she won the EM regional by 1:43!!! last week. Last year's state-runner, Emily Durgin has been battling with some anemia issues, it's unknown whether or not she is going to run on Saturday, she dropped out of the WM regional meet. Fiona Hendry last year's #3 finishers & Shannon Conley last year's #4 finisher both of Cheverus will be in the mix for the runner-up position. Hendry is coming off her best race of the year at the WM regional, where she ran 19:15 to finish 2nd. There is plenty of talent in this race, should be quite a few New England qualifiers.
Check out the Eastern & Western Maine Regional results combined (Please note this is all the times combined, no course adjustments have been made)
Top 10 Eastern Maine Regional 2011
1 Erzsebet Nagy JR Lawrence 18:51.25 1 2 Teresa Murphy SO Brunswick 20:34.81 2 3 Addie Cullenberg SR Mt. Blue 20:37.98 3 4 Kelly Lynch SO Mt. Ararat 20:38.28 4 5 Emma Wood SR Mt. Ararat 20:38.82 5 6 Kylee Parker JR Hampden Academy 20:54.32 6 7 Lauren McNett JR Mt. Ararat 21:04.17 7 8 Elizabeth Labun FR Hampden Academy 21:05.55 8 9 Olivia Swan FR Mt. Ararat 21:10.55 9 10 Madsy Schneider JR Brunswick 21:16.50 10
Top 10 Western Maine Regional 2011
1 Abbey Leonardi SR Kennebunk 18:05.59 1 2 Fiona Hendry SR Cheverus 19:15.27 2 3 Shannon Conley SO Cheverus 19:53.55 3 4 Kiera Murray SO Cheverus 20:07.08 4 5 Nyajock Pan JR South Portalnd 20:16.97 5 6 Gabrielle Johnson FR Massabesic 20:19.84 6 7 Jocelyn Acheson JR Massabesic 20:20.02 7 8 Mikayla Frazier SR Massabesic 20:51.89 8 9 Samantha Cox Bonny Eagle 20:56.07 9 10 Hannah Damron SR Windham High School 20:57.24 10
Top 10 States 2010
1 Abbey Leonardi JR Kennebunk 17:49.01 1 2 Emily Durgin JR Cheverus 18:03.64 2 3 Fiona Hendry JR Cheverus 18:34.86 3 4 Shannon Conley FR Cheverus 19:08.93 4 5 Emma Wood JR Mt. Ararat 19:11.57 5 6 Nyajock Pan SO South Portland 19:14.09 6 7 Kathleen McMahon JR Brunswick 19:17.68 7 8 Charlotte Pierce SO Massabesic 19:36.93 8 9 Kate Spies SR Mt. Ararat 19:40.93 9 10 Samantha Cox SO Bonny Eagle 19:45.23 10
Team
Defending champions Cheverus will be aiming for a 2nd straight title, if they were healthy it would be a lock. If they can get a solid race from Durgin, they Stags will win their 3rd straight Class A title. If Durgin doesn't finish like last weekend then watch for WM regional runner-up Massabesic, who was just 5 points back of the Stags last weekend. Mt Ararat the EM champ could be in the mix as well, they rebounded from their loss at the KVAC meet to win the EM regional by 16 points over Brunswick. Windham & Mt Blue look to be the next best team, they will contend for a top 5 finish.
Top 10 Eastern Maine Regional 2011
1 Mt. Ararat High School 36 2 Brunswick High School 52 3 Mt. Blue High School 99 4 Hampden Academy 104 5 Brewer High School 159 6 Lewiston High School 161 7 Bangor High School 185
Top 10 Western Maine Regional 2011
1 Cheverus 45 2 Massabesic High School 51 3 Windham High School 92 4 South Portland High Schoo 155 5 Bonny Eagle High School 181 6 Marshwood High School 212 7 Portland High School 226 8 Thornton Academy 232
2010 Top 6 Results
1 Cheverus High School 45 2 Mt. Ararat High School 68 3 Massabesic High School 82 4 Bonny Eagle High School 158 5 Brunswick High School 168 6 Windham High School 179
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