After two Mountain Valley Conference meets, the Boothbay/Wiscasset boys’ track and field team has posted two consecutive third place finishes. On April 23, Boothbay/Wiscasset scored 81 points at the MVC meet in Wiscasset. Lisbon won with 223 points and Hyde Academy finished second with 86. Other team totals were Kents Hill (50), Maranacook (44) and Monmouth (27).

Two Boothbay/Wiscasset athletes posted individual victories. AJ Crocker won by 36 seconds over Lisbon’s Malachi Ganong. Crocker ran the 3,200-meter in 11 minutes, 38.6 seconds. Mason Clark won the discus with a 103-foot, 3.5-inch throw. The team had 10 athletes finish in the top four in the 18 events.

In the 200-meter dash, Aidric Canada finished second with a 24.59 second mark. Lisbon’s Emmett Moody won with a 23.15. Boothbay/Wiscasset’s Austin Trask placed third at 24.65.

In the 400-meter dash, Trask finished third with a 24.65 second time. He trailed Kents Hill’s Moses MacRae with a 55.22 mark and Hyde’s Kobe Alphord who had a 55.77 mark.

In the 1,600-meter run, Hyde’s Joey Carmelo-Scalia beat AJ Crocker. Carmelo-Scalia ran a five-minute, 13.52 second mark. Crocker finished in 5:15.5.

In the 300-meter hurdles, Tucker Davenport placed third with a 49.23 second mark. He trailed two Lisbon runners. Emmett Mooney ran it in 42.01 seconds and Adam Hayes ran in 45.41.

The Boothbay/Wiscasset’s 4X100-meter relay team of Trask, Alton King, Tucker Davenport and Canada finished second behind Hyde. Boothbay/Wiscasset ran a 48.46 second time. Hyde ran in 46.54. 

In the long jump,  King finished third with a 17-foot, four-inch jump. Lisbon’s Nick Powell won with a 18-02 mark. In the 1,600-meter race walk, Ross Gaffney took second place with a nine-minute, 26.75 second time. Lisbon’s Samuel Liudvinaitis won with a 9:05.72 time.

The next MVC meet is Saturday, May 4 at 10 a.m. in Lisbon for the All-Conference Mid-Season meet.