The Boothbay Region Elementary School girls cross country team finished second and the boys finished third at the 2013 Busline League championships held October 17 at Medomak Middle School.

Boothbay ran against a field of eight other schools: Camden, Searsport, Lincolnville, Troy Howard Middle School (Belfast), Great Salt Bay, Medomak Middle School, Islesboro, Appleton for the championship.

Boothbay's Faith Blethen, a seventh grader, placed second overall in a field of 70 runners behind Camden's Augusta Stockton, her major competitor of the season. Both ran a beautiful race and will surely meet each other again next year.

Boothbay's Kyle Ames, an eighth grader, finished his middle school running career on a major note placing first overall in a field of 103 runners followed by Lincolnville's Kyle Wood.

"Kyle has developed into a solid cross country runner over the last three years. I can't wait to see what he'll accomplish in high school,” said Coach Hildy Johnson.

The girls placed second overall with 45 points, while Camden placed first, earning them the championship with 21 points.

The boys placed third overall with 54 points behind Lincolnville with 45 points. Camden, this year's champions, placed first with 44 points.

Johnson thanks all the runners for another fabulous season.

“Since the middle of August these kids have been working hard at practices and running hard at meets and they gave it their all and can feel real positive about their results.

“They were a fun group and I look forward to watching those moving on to high school, to their careers there, and to having a solid team again next year with the sixth and seventh graders I have now along with a few 5th graders we're all trying to recruit for next year! Watch out Busline League!”

Johnson wished to offer a big thank you to the BRHS Seahawk cross-country team for helping to cleaning up the trail and helping with the home meet on September 27.

October 10 meet

On Thursday, Oct. 10, the BRES cross-country teams headed out for Waldoboro to a meet being hosted by Oceanside, but being held at Medomak Middle School.

The opponents were Appleton, Lincolnville, Oceanside and Medomak Middle School. The runners were excited as this was "the place" where they would run the championship meet a week later. The weather was perfect, the kids were in shape and excited to run this fairly flat, but favorable trail.

Both the boys and the girls ran great races which made the excitement for next week's Busline Championship even more exciting. Boothbay boys (29 points) came in behind Lincolnville (27 points), followed by Oceanside with 93 points. Boothbay girls placed first overall with 16 points, with Lincolnville behind them with 53 points and Medomak with 60 points.