The Boothbay Region Elementary School cross country team narrowly outpaced Great Salt Bay and Wiscasset in winning a Sept. 20 middle school meet in Boothbay Harbor. GSB had three runners finish in the top five in winning the six-team meet. Boothbay scored 52 points in defeating second place GSB (55) and third place Wiscasset (55). The second place tie was broken by virtue of a sixth runner’s performance.

Boothbay’s Dominick Dow finished second in running the 2.1-mile course in 14:03. Wildcat runner Gryffin Kristan finished fourth with a 14:21 time and teammate Ryan Clark finished fifth with a 14:55 time. Wiscasset runners took two of the top three places. Connor Robertson won with a 13:01 time and teammate Sawyer Linehan finished third with a 14:21 time. Wiscasset runner Alex Richard finished 10th with a 15:34 time.

In the girls’ meet, Boothbay had two runners place in the top 10, but didn’t have enough participants to score points for team results. Boothbay’s Laura Chapman finished eighth with a 17:55 mark and teammate Maddie Orchard placed ninth one second later. Great Salt Bay won the three-team girls’ meet. GSB scored 18 points and scored the top four finishes and five top 10 results. GSB runner Ashly Campbell won with a 15:03 time. Teammates Maggie Thompson, Tessa McNamara, and Audrey Hufnagel finished second, third and fourth. Thompson ran the course in 15:52. McNamara followed one second later, and, Hufnagel finished with a 15:53 mark. GSB’s Reese Nelson finished 10th with a 18:09 time.

Wiscasset had two top 10 finishes and placed second in the meet with 52 points and Medomak finished third with 66 points. Wiscasset’s Makenzi Neuman finished fifth with a 15:27 time and Emily Gilliam finished sixth with a 17:44 time.