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
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