The Brunswick High School girls cross country team concluded a solid season by finishing fourth in the State Class A Cross Country Championships at Troy Howard Middle School on Saturday.
The Dragons picked up 147 points, with Bonny Eagle taking the title with 77. Falmouth (83) and Massabesic (143) were second and third, respectively, with Marshwood (167) rounding out the top five.
Mt. Ararat’s Katherine Leckbee, coming off victories in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference and Class A North regionals, claimed third overall in 18:42.41. She finished 20 seconds behind Falmouth’s Malaika Pasch (18:22.02) and Kennebunk’s Louise Holway (18:22.50).
“Katherine always makes me proud,” said Mt. Ararat coach Diane Fournier. “She is one of those individuals who does not need motivation from the coach, she is able to do that on her own and that is very special.”
The Eagles had 235 points to finish in 12th, with scoring coming from Sara York (52nd), Rebecca French (56th), Josie Miller (81st) and Caitlin Chambers (93rd).
In the boys race in Class A, Falmouth ran away with the title, accumulating 72 points. Deering was second with 116, followed by Massabesic (151), Windham (155) and Mt. Blue (158).
Mt. Ararat, behind a solid second-place showing from Cameron Meier (15:51.22) and a 10th-place finish from Lisandro Berry-Gaviria (16:23.80), placed eighth with 174 points, while Brunswick claimed 12th with 276 points.
“He’s an anomaly,” said Fournier of Meier. “There is something in his head, when he wishes to use it that makes him seem almost inhuman in what he can achieve.
“Cam worked on a lobster boat this summer and didn’t train according to the program he was given. So, he is really just starting to peak, he’s about 2-3 weeks behind where he was last year at this time.”
Other Eagle scorers were Eagan Eldridge (25th), Lucas Bergeron (61st) and Aaron Hyde (103rd), while Brunswick was paced by Cameron Ashby (31st), Will Shaughnessy (35th), Hunter Parker (75th), Andrew Chingos (77th) and Daniel Lyons (100th).
Classes B/C
For the second straight week, Henry Jaques of Freeport and Yarmouth’s Luke Laverdiere battled it out for the individual title in a meet.
Laverdiere picked up the win, crossing in 15:49.59, just eight seconds ahead of Jaques, who finished in 15:57.73.
Paced by Jaques’ finish, along with Alex Les (10th), Yacob Olins (11th), Tom Doyle (23rd) and Heath Cockburn (60th), Freeport claimed third in Class B with 100 points.
Western Maine Conference champ Greely was first in Class B boys, edging out runner up Wells by 15 points, 66- 81. Yarmouth (101) and Cape Elizabeth (168) completed the top five.
Greely made it a sweep as the Ranger girls held off runner up Yarmouth and third-place finisher York. Greely had 71 points, with the Clippers edging the Wildcats, 82- 84, for second. Cape Elizabeth (118) and Mt. Desert Island (149) were fourth and fifth, respectively.
Abigail Hamilton of Yarmouth won the girls Class B race in 18:05.31.
Led by Lily Horne’s 14thplace showing (19:53.81), the Freeport girls took 10th with 251 points. Emily Sclar (55th), Laura Pierce (68th), Olivia Botting (73rd) and Caroline Stairs (75th) also scored for the Falcons.
Morse runner Sydney McCarren competed and claimed 40th in 20:56.68.
There were no area girls running in Class C, which was won by George Stevens Academy. Kassidy Dill was first in Class C girls in 19:29.97.
In the boys Class C race, Wiscasset’s Brandon Goud ran strong and claimed fifth overall in 16:55.45. John Hassett of George Stevens Academy was first in 15:56.12.
Lisbon runners Mike Schlotterbeck (31st), David Schlotterbeck (37th) and Kyle LaRoche (49th) competed, along with Richmond’s Ford Strout (52nd).
Orono won the boys Class C title with 56 points, 13 ahead of runner-up Maine Coast Waldorf.
The top Maine runners will head next to North Scituate, R.I., for the 82nd annual New England Interscholastic Cross Country Championships this upcoming Saturday.
Qualifying from the area are Leckbee for the girls, and Meier, Jaques and Berry- Gaviria in the boys.
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