Camden Hills girls repeat, Ellsworth boys impressive in EM B races

Camden Hills repeats, Ellsworth boys domintae, Curts & Brown repeat as champs with fastest times of the day

The Camden Hills girls made a statement as they repeated as EM champs. The Windjammers scored 51 to outdistance surprise runner-up Waterville & MDI. On the Boys side Ellsworth made a statement

Individually Bethanie Brown trounded the field with easily the fastest girls time of the day, in fact the only one sub 20 on the day as she ran 18:46. Dan Curts was the boys winner as he was 50 seconds

better than Ben Trapani the runner-up, Curts time was the fastest boys time on the day

 

Results

Class B Boys

Class B Girls

 

The Ellsworth boys xc program has long been one of the best in Eastern Maine as well as the State of Maine. The performance the Eagles had on Saturday at the Eastern Maine regional might have been one of the best the program has ever had as the Eagles scored 27 to throttle the rest of the competition

Ellsworth was led by race winner Dan Curts who won the Eastern regional for the 3rd year in a row. The junior covered the rain soaken course in 16:49 to clock the fastest time of all runners yesterday.

Curts crossed the line 50 seconds in front of Camden Hill's Ben Trapani who ran 17:39. Next came 2 more Maroon jerseys as Robert Looker finished 3rd followed by teammate Brayden Beardsley 14 seconds later.

Waterville's Chris Cote nabbed 5th place running 18:17, he held off Jordan Harris of MDI by .43 seconds.

Winslow senior Nick Shuckrow finished 7th with Ron Lund of Caribou running 18:32 for 8th

Then it was the rest of Ellsworth scoring 5 with Frank King in 9th followed by freshman Cooper Holmes in 10th 18:49.

With 5 of the first ten runners Ellsworth tallied 27 points to finish an amazing 100 points ahead of runner-up Caribou. Looking at how dominate the Eagles were there average time was 18:04, which was well over a miunute faster than the teams behind them.

Caribou held off a challenege from MDI who finished 3rd just 11 points back of the Vikings. Winslow was 4th with 141 points then next came John Bapst in 5th with 143.

Also qualifying for the state meet was Camden Hills, Medomak Valley & Waterville

 

Boys Individual State Qualifiers

  1 Dan Curts                 JR Ellsworth             16:49.68    1
  2 Ben Trapani               JR Camden Hills          17:39.93    2
  3 Robert Looker             JR Ellsworth             17:53.17    3
  4 Brayden Beardsley         JR Ellsworth             18:07.13    4
  5 Chris Cote                SO Waterville            18:17.40    5
  6 Jordan Harris             SO MDI                   18:17.83    6
  7 Nickolas Shuckrow         SR Winslow High School   18:22.13    7
  8 Ron Lund                  SR Caribou High School   18:32.20    8
  9 Frank King                JR Ellsworth             18:44.43    9
 10 Cooper Holmes             FR Ellsworth             18:49.70   10
 11 Connor Wagner             JR John Bapst            18:51.41   11
 12 Brendan Cyr               SO Caribou High School   18:59.29   12
 13 Matt Spear                JR John Bapst            18:59.35   13
 14 Nick Derosby              JR Waterville            19:04.89   14
 15 Cole Chase                JR Oceanside             19:06.42   15
 16 Joseph Bellavia           JR Waterville            19:08.63   16
 17 Alexander Petersen        SR Hermon High School    19:09.53   17
 18 Ivan Johnson              SR Medomak Valley        19:10.98   18
 19 Eli Smith                 FR Camden Hills          19:12.77   19
 20 Andrew Cox                SR Washington Academy    19:14.15   20
 21 Thomas Cassidy            JR Winslow High School   19:19.07   21
 22 Nick Mahar                SO Oceanside             19:22.17   22
 23 Alexander Casas           JR Medomak Valley        19:22.21   23
 24 Josh Zapsky               SO Hermon High School    19:23.10   24
 25 Griffin Davis             SR Winslow High School   19:25.56   25
 26 Ben Winchenbach           FR Camden Hills          19:26.30   26
 27 Ryan Washington           JR Caribou High School   19:27.22   27
 28 Derek Hawes               SR Ellsworth             19:29.81   28
 29 Dylan Harris              FR MDI                   19:29.87   29
 30 Gavin Felch               SO Medomak Valley        19:30.31   30

Team Qualifiers

  1 Ellsworth High School        27    1    3    4    9   10   28   31
      Total Time:  1:30:24.11
         Average:    18:04.83
   2 Caribou High School         127    8   12   27   37   43   50   59
      Total Time:  1:37:02.58
         Average:    19:24.52
   3 Mount Desert Island HS      138    6   29   32   33   38   70   73
      Total Time:  1:36:46.79
         Average:    19:21.36
   4 Winslow High School         141    7   21   25   42   46   49   52
      Total Time:  1:37:44.62
         Average:    19:32.93
   5 John Bapst Memorial HS      143   11   13   35   36   48   58   83
      Total Time:  1:37:58.71
         Average:    19:35.75
   6 Camden Hills High School    164    2   19   26   54   63   76   80
      Total Time:  1:39:10.12
         Average:    19:50.03
   7 Medomak Valley              184   18   23   30   39   74   84
      Total Time:  1:40:28.64
         Average:    20:05.73
   8 Waterville Senior High Sc   187    5   14   16   65   87
      Total Time:  1:43:04.34
         Average:    20:36.87

 

 

hile her time of 18:46 was almost a minute slower than the course record Bethanie Brown's performance is amazing considering the course conditions. The state's best distance runner dominated the class B field at the Eastern Maine regional, her winning margin was an astonishing 1:28! & she would have placed top 10 in the boys race

While Brown was out front running away with her second straight EM title, Aleta Looker of Ellsworth was enjoying the mud as she ran to a runner-up finish 20:14. Behind her was Camden Hill's Brittany Bowman who crossed in 20:34.

Caribou's Mackenzie Belyea returned to action with a fine 4th place performance (20:55), a few strides behind her was Abby Hersom of Oceanside (20:57)

Next came a pair of Windjammers as seniors Emily Lopez & Hannah Brownawell took 6th & 7th, they were followed by a pair of Trojans as MDI's Waylon Henggeler & Olivia Erickson

Rounding out the top ten was senior Adrienne Carmack of John Bapst who clocked 21:24

The Biggest surprise might have come in the team results as defending champions Camden Hills repeated as champions over favorited Mt Desert Island. The Windjammers tallied 51 points & were led by 3 runners in the top 7.

MDI the pre-meet favorite hasd to run without their #1 runner Maggie Painter due to illness, with her back in the line-up the meet would have been much closer. With Painter out MDI slipped to 3rd with 78 points. This sets up an epic state meet, last year MDI lost by a point at regionals. They rebounded with a dominating performance at the state meet a week later, what will this year have in store?

Waterville had a huge day as they showed they can run in tough conditions. Last week they were 24 points behind Camden Hills at the KVAC meet, today they cut the marhgin to 14. The Purple Panthers scored 65 points to earn the runner-up plaque.

Caribou had a strong dayt as they were back to full strength the Vikings were 3 points back of MDI with 81 points.

John Bapst was 5th followed by Winslow & Ellsworth
 

Girls Individual State Qualifiers

  1 Bethanie Brown            SR Waterville            18:46.11    1
  2 Aleta Looker              JR Ellsworth             20:14.21    2
  3 Brittany Bowman           JR Camden Hills          20:34.43    3
  4 Mackenzie Belyea          SR Caribou High School   20:55.84    4
  5 Abby Hersom               JR Oceanside             20:57.52
  6 Emily Lopez               SR Camden Hills          21:00.05    5
  7 Hannah Brownawell         SR Camden Hills          21:02.69    6
  8 Waylon Henggeler          SO MDI                   21:13.42    7
  9 Olivia Erickson           JR MDI                   21:21.69    8
 10 Adrienne Carmack          SR John Bapst            21:24.17    9
 11 Tiana Thomas              SR Waterville            21:27.73   10
 12 Robyn Larrabee            SO Caribou High School   21:29.79   11
 13 Molly Schassberger        SR Winslow High School   21:33.63   12
 14 Samantha Morse            SO Camden Hills          21:37.63   13
 15 Erica Jenson              FR Waterville            21:44.52   14
 16 Nerissa Larrabee          SO Caribou High School   21:50.95   15
 17 Isabel Erickson           JR MDI                   21:51.05   16
 18 Caroline Driscoll         SO MDI                   22:01.08   17
 19 Riley Simmons             SO Oceanside             22:26.64
 20 Lara Bluhm                SR Waterville            22:50.18   18
 21 Alyssa Wright             SO Winslow High School   22:55.70   19
 22 Cassie Howard             JR Belfast               22:56.33   20
 23 Meagan Zapsky             JR Hermon High School    23:00.19
 24 Adrianna Fish             FR John Bapst            23:05.05   21
 25 Lauren Brown              FR Waterville            23:05.97   22
 26 Chelsea Bard              SR Caribou High School   23:09.64   23
 27 Lily Kassen               JR Camden Hills          23:13.37   24
 28 Jade Decker               JR John Bapst            23:20.54   25
 29 Audrey Jones              JR Winslow High School   23:28.48   26
 30 Ella Scott                SO Camden Hills          23:35.24   27

 

Team Qualifiers

   1 Camden Hills High School     51    3    5    6   13   24   27
      Total Time:  1:47:28.17
         Average:    21:29.64
   2 Waterville Senior High Sc    65    1   10   14   18   22   36   45
      Total Time:  1:47:54.51
         Average:    21:34.91
   3 Mount Desert Island HS       78    7    8   16   17   30   34   57
      Total Time:  1:50:16.70
         Average:    22:03.34
   4 Caribou High School          81    4   11   15   23   28   38   43
      Total Time:  1:51:12.52
         Average:    22:14.51
   5 John Bapst Memorial HS      124    9   21   25   29   40   46   53
      Total Time:  1:56:09.57
         Average:    23:13.92
   6 Winslow High School         130   12   19   26   31   42   49   55
      Total Time:  1:56:29.11
         Average:    23:17.82
   7 Ellsworth High School       222    2   41   58   60   61   62   79
      Total Time:  2:03:03.10
         Average:    24:36.62