Boothbay/Wiscasset girls’ track & field begins season with two strong efforts
Boothbay/Wiscasset sprinters Bella Orr, left, Bailey Lewis, center, and Emily Gilliam make tracks for the finish line April 23 in a Mountain Valley Conference meet in Wiscasset. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Boothbay/Wiscasset girls’ track team members Tatum French, left, and Rose Campbell, center, battle these two Maranacook runners in the 100-meter dash April 23 during the Mountain Valley Conference meet in Wiscasset. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Boothbay/Wiscasset discus thrower Grace Greene lets one fly April 23 in the Mountain Valley Conference meet in Wiscasset. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Boothbay/Wiscasset sprinter Tatum French runs by her Maranacook challenger April 23 in the 100-meter dash at the Mountain Valley Conference meet April 21 in Wiscasset. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Boothbay/Wiscasset sprinters Bella Orr, left, Bailey Lewis, center, and Emily Gilliam make tracks for the finish line April 23 in a Mountain Valley Conference meet in Wiscasset. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Boothbay/Wiscasset girls’ track team members Tatum French, left, and Rose Campbell, center, battle these two Maranacook runners in the 100-meter dash April 23 during the Mountain Valley Conference meet in Wiscasset. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Boothbay/Wiscasset discus thrower Grace Greene lets one fly April 23 in the Mountain Valley Conference meet in Wiscasset. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Boothbay/Wiscasset sprinter Tatum French runs by her Maranacook challenger April 23 in the 100-meter dash at the Mountain Valley Conference meet April 21 in Wiscasset. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
The Boothbay/Wiscasset girls’ track team has posted two impressive performances to start the season.
On April 16, the team finished third at its first Mountain Valley Conference meet in Lisbon. On April 21, the team claimed another third place finish, scoring 116 points in the six-team meet in Wiscasset. Boothbay/Wiscasset trailed meet winner Maranacook (156) and Lisbon/Oak Hill (121). Other team results: Kents Hill scored 87. Monmonth tallied 20. Hyde scored 10.
Boothbay/Wiscasset’s Karen Higgins won the 1600-meter run with a six-minute, 6.7 second mark. Higgins also won the 3,200-meter race in 13 minutes, 20.33 seconds. The 4X400-meter relay team won with a four-minute, 57.88 second mark. Team members are Emily Gilliam, Maddie Orchard, Abbie Clark and Olivia Rittall.
The team posted 15 top-four finishes. In the 100-meter dash, Rose Campbell finished second with a 14.22 second mark and Emily Gilliam finished fourth at 14.61. Maranacook’s Hope Webb won with a 13.98 mark.
In the 200-meter dash, Campbell finished third at 30.82. Kents Hill’s Gianni Meadows won with a 29.47. In the 400-meter run, Rittall finished second with a one-minute 7.7 second mark. Lisbon’s Addy Burkhardt finished first at 1:06.48.
In the 800-meter run, Orchard ran a two minutes, 48.69 seconds mark in finishing second. Teammate Karen Higgins finished fourth at 2:51.15. Maranacook’s Olympia Farrell won at 2:45.91. In the 3,200-meter run, Julia Truesdell finished second at 13:37.86. In the 300-meter hurdles, Gilliam finished second with a one minute, 0.1 second mark. Maranacook’s Gracie Farrell won at 57.98 seconds. In the 4X100-meter relay, Gilliam, Lewis, French and Clark finished second at 58.1 seconds. Maranacook won with a 56.51 time.
In the long jump, Lewis placed third with a 12-foot, 10-inch mark. She trailed winner Gianni Meadow of Kents Hill’s 13-06 and Olympia Farrell of Maranacook at 13-04.
In the discus, Campbell finished second with a 72-foot, one-inch throw. Winner Hannah Toye of Maranacook threw 79-08.
The next MVC meet is Saturday, May 4 at 10 a.m. in Lisbon for the All-Conference Mid-Season meet.
