Five runners for the Boothbay Region Elementary School boys' cross-country team were among the first 10 runners to finish the race held at BRES Tuesday, Sept. 20 as the Wildcats went on to edge Camden-Rockport, 31-34, in the three-team meet. Great Salt Bay finished third with 71 points.

Both Boothbay and Camden had three runners in the top seven — Great Salt Bay's Gabriel Seaman came in first overall with a time of 14:58 in the 2.3-mile course — but Boothbay's fourth and fifth runners, Jonathan Genrich (16:26.2) and Mason Erhard (16:34.5) came in just ahead of Camden's fourth and fifth runners (16:40 and 16:41) to secure the narrow victory.

Boothbay's top three runners were Chris Hamblett (15:02.1, second overall), Gryffin Kristan (15:46.8, fifth overall) and Ryan Russell (16:20.2, seventh overall).

In the girls meet, Haley Abbott (15:56.1), Glory Blethen (16:10.6) and Jazmine Balducci (17:04.3) finished first, second and fourth overall, respectively, for Boothbay but Camden had five runners finish in the top 14 finishers as C-R edged Boothbay, 35-44, in the meet. Great Salt Bay was a close third with 50 points.

The boys meet featured 54 runners while 48 girls competed under cloudy skies.

Other finishers for the Boothbay boys were Kaleb Ames (16:53.8, 13th), Jamie LaBrecque (17:29.9, 17th), Graham Harris (17:32.6, 18th), Chase Carty (17:33.6, 19th), Ashton McLellan (18:35), Lucas Hardwick (18:42), Ryan Amaral (19:16), Sam Page (20:18), Fox Elder (20:30), Matthew Sullivan (20:32), Kayden Ames (21:03) and Gavin Carlson (24:32).

Other finishers for the BRES girls were: Marissa Peters (21:36.3, 24th), Grace Campbell (21:50.4, 26th), Kathryn Emma Hibbard (25:28) and Gracie Campbell (26:00).

Boothbay is scheduled to race next at Medomak on Thursday, Sept. 29, with the boys starting first at 4 p.m.