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MPA, legislators reach agreement on allowing athletes to compete in more elite events

The Maine Principals’ Association is removing some hurdles for Maine high school athletes looking to compete at regional and national events. State legislators and the Maine Principals’ Association reached a handshake agreement earlier this week designed to give athletes more opportunities to compete at elite events and have their coaches coach them. The agreement provides […]

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Local Runner Recognized: Mt. Ararat’s Berry-Gaviria earns Gatorade Award

CHICAGO — In its 34th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, the Gatorade Company, announced on Monday that Mt. Ararat High School junior Lisandro Berry-Gaviria is its 2018-19 Gatorade Maine Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year. Berry-Gaviria is the first Gatorade Maine Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year to be chosen […]

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Mt. Ararat Runner Shines: Lisandro Berry-Gaviria receives more accolades

TOPSHAM — Athletes in their first year of high school are often timid and uncertain, just hoping to fit in with more mature peers. Lisandro Berry-Gaviria of Bowdoinham was nothing like that when he arrived at Mt. Ararat High School’s preseason cross country sessions two years ago. Already he had read and digested The Youth and […]

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Area Runner Makes Good: Lisandro Berry-Gaviria of Mt. Ararat qualifies for Nike Cross Country Nationals

WAPPINGER FALLS, N.Y. — Mt. Ararat High School’s Lisandro Berry-Gaviria has qualified for the Nike Cross Country Nationals. On Saturday at Bowdoin Park, Berry-Gaviria placed third in the Nike Cross Northeast Regional, finishing in 16:10. The Nationals will be held in Portland, Ore., this upcoming Saturday. Berry-Gaviria, a junior, won the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference, […]

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Class B Cross Country:  York boys end 70-year drought

Belfast — A while back, Ted Hutch came across some microfilm of this newspaper that included a story about York High winning a state championship in cross country. Alfie Walker of Fryeburg Academy was eighth in the Class B South regional and hadn’t beaten any of the top contenders for the cross country state title. That […]

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Class A Cross Country: Mt. Ararat’s Berry-Gaviria wins again

Belfast — Lisandro Berry-Gaviria’s plan worked to perfection. As for Sofie Matson’s face-plant, that worked out as well as could be expected. In the end, both runners successfully defended their Class A cross country state championships on a raw Saturday morning, with times faster than any others who followed in the other meets at Troy Howard […]

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Class C Cross Country: Maine Coast Waldorf boys, Orono girls reign supreme

BELFAST — When organizers decided, in light of an ominous forecast, to hold the cross country state championship earlier Saturday than originally scheduled rather than gamble on better weather by postponing until next weekend, they did so knowing that Class C might be affected by the leading edge of the storm. Sure enough, cold rain began […]