Boothcasset track faced Mt. Abram and Lisbon high schools and Monmouth Academy May 10 in Lisbon. The boys’ and girls’ teams both took second place behind Lisbon.

Josie Harrington took first in the 100m dash in 14.36s. Emily Gilliam and Anna and Emily Gosselin followed taking sixth, eighth and ninth in 15.11, 16.16 and 17.01. Anna and Emily Gosselin took ninth and 10th in the 200m dash in 36.01 and 36.62. Maddie Orchard took second in the 800m run in 2:59.75 with Grace Campbell and Ava Schlosser tying in 3:00.24 and taking third and fourth. Emerson Harris followed closely taking sixth in 3:07.48.

Campbell, Orchard and Harris took first, second and fourth in the 1600m run in 6:34.44, 6:38.15 and 6:43.65. Harrington took second and third in the 100m and 300m hurdles in 17.97 and 55.24. Gilliam followed in the 300m hurdles taking fourth with 59.9. Schlosser and Linnea Andersson took third and sixth in the 1600m race walk in 9:17.79 and 12:02.68.

Harrington took second in the high jump with 4’8” and Gilliam fourth for the triple jump with 23’9”.

Jaelyn Crocker, Marissa Davison, Andersson and Alivia Orr took first, fifth, 13th and 14th in discus with 75’1”, 68’9”, 41’7” and 40’5”. Anna and Emily Gosselin, Orr and Davison took third, eighth, 10th and 14th in javelin with 64’1”, 50’11”, 46’1” and 39’3”. Crocker, Davison, Orr and Andersson took first, third, seventh and 10th in shot put with 27’9.5”, 23’0.75”, 21’1.75” and 18’2.75”.

Six Boothcasset boys competed in the 100m dash. Austin Trask and Nate Shutte took first and second, Tristan Pepe fifth, and Conner Dover, Nate Benoit and Thomas Babineau 10th through 12th. Their times were: Trask, 12.2; Shutte, 12.27; Pepe, 12.84; Dover, 13.69; Benoit, 13.74; and Babineau, 16.48. Shutte, Bryan Gagnon, Pepe and Dover took first, second, fifth and seventh in the 200m dash in 25.23, 25.47, 26.86 and 28.66.

Gagnon and Henry Putnam took second and sixth in the 400m run in 57.24 and 1:01.53. Ryan Clark and Blagdon took first and second in the 800m run in 2:17.99 and 2:18.47. Marshall Wall took third in the 3200m run and Nase Lawless second in the 110m hurdles in 24.71. Benoit took third in the 1600m race walk in 11:14.35. The boys 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams took third in both events in 48.63 and 3:57.9.

In the long jump, Shutte, Trask and Dover took second through fourth and Benoit, Lawless and Babineau seventh through ninth. Results were: Shutte, 16’4.5”; Trask, 15’9”; Dover, 14’5”; Benoit, 13’0.5”; Lawless, 12’11.25”; and Babineau, 10’1.5”.

Nine Boothcasset athletes took part in the discus event. Kayden Ames led off in first place with 134’; Zach Rollins, second, 108’11”; Mason Clark, fourth, 80’7”; Brady Nichols, sixth, 75’10”; Cecil Clifford, 10th, 66’4”; Peter Holbrook, 12th, 62’2”; Finnegan Gaffney, 14th, 59’1”; Caden Royal, 15th, 58’; and Babineau, 16th, 57’2”.

Ames and Rollins took first and second in shot put with 40’7.5 and 36’9.25”. In the same event were Clifford, sixth, 29’7.25”; Royal, ninth, 28’5”; Nichols, 11th, 26’2.75”; Holbrook, 13th, 25’4”; and Benoit, 14th, 23’5.75”. Payton Blagdon and Putnam took second and fifth in javelin with 109’5” and 94’1”.

Waterville Invitational

The teams competed at the Waterville Invitational May 14 facing Leavitt Area, Winslow, Belfast Area, Skowhegan Area, Camden Hills Regional, Waterville, Messalonskee, Madison Memorial high schools, Maine Central Institute, Erskine and Lincoln academies, and Mountain Valley Conference rival Hall-Dale High School.

The boys took seventh in points beating out Camden Hills Regional High School by 12 points and stayed well ahead of 12th place Hall-Dale. The girls took ninth just two points behind Belfast Area High School and two points ahead of Hall-Dale.

For the girls, Gilliam took 25th in the 100m dash in 15.4s; Orchard, 800m run, 17th; 3:10.62; Orchard, 1600m run, 15th, 7:10.97; Harrington, 100m hurdles, third and second, 17.45 and 17.47; Gilliam, 300m hurdles, 19th, 1:04.94.

Harrington and Orchard took first and 15th in the high jump with 4’10” and 4’; Gilliam, 19th, triple jump, 24’8”; Orr, discus, 16th, 21’6.75”; Harrington and Orr, shot put, third and 16th, 27’4.5” and 21’6.75”; Andersson, race walk, fourth, 12:52.34.

Five Boothcasset boys raced the 100m dash: Trask took 13th in 12.26s; Shutte, 16th, 12.61; Pepe, 25th, 13.1; Putnam, 28th, 13.32; and Babineau. 50Th, 17.04. Gagnon led Trask, Shutte and Pepe in the 200m dash for eighth, 10th, 12th and 23rd in 25 seconds, 25.63, 25.65 and 27.51. Blagdon took sixth in the 400m dash in 56.85. Wall took 19th in the 800m run in 2:30.34 and 11th in the 1600m run in 5:32.08.

Lawless took eighth in the 110m hurdles in 23.03 and Benoit 10th in the 300m hurdles in 59.49. Benoit also took fifth in the 1600m race walk in 11:49.92.

Ames and Rollins took first and third in discus with 137’10” and 110’4” and then second and seventh in shot put with 41’5.75” and 32’9.5”. Blagdon took 22nd in javelin with 95’8” and Lawless took 10th in the high jump with 5’.

The boys 4x100m and 4x400m relays took sixth and third in 48.72 and 3:53.75.