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| Staff photo/Kevin Sjoberg Karen Jones of Presque Isle, left, and JoJo Fields of Caribou leap over hurdles during the May 30 Aroostook League Middle School Championships held in Presque Isle. |
PRESQUE ISLE – This year’s Aroostook League Middle School Track and Field Championships was swept by the home team. Presque Isle Middle School won both the girls and boys competitions, which were held May 30.
The Wildcat girls scored 121 points to finish ahead of Caribou (66), Valley Rivers of Fort Kent (35), Fort Fairfield (14) and Union 122 (12).
The boys’ meet was much tighter, as PI scored 83 points to win by just 12 over Caribou, which had 71. Valley Rivers (35), Fort Fairfield (30) and Union 122 (29) followed.
The meet’s individual high point winners were Eileen Patton of Caribou and Jacob O’Berry of Presque Isle.
Event winners were as follows:
Girls
100-meter dash: Elizabeth Findlen, PI, 14.4 seconds; 200-meter dash: Findlen, 31.21 seconds; 400-meter dash: Mandy Graham, PI, 1:12.73; 800-meter run: Alexis Coiley, Fort Fairfield, 2:58; 1,600-meter run: Jordan Tanguay, Valley Rivers, 6:21; 100-meter hurdles: Patton, 19.16 seconds; 4 X 100-meter relay: Caribou (Sara Boyer, Sarah Draper, Zoe Gerakaris and Alyssia Saucier), 1:01.2; 4 X 200-meter relay: Presque Isle (Graham, Karen Jones, Maddie Postell and Findlen), 2:08.09; high jump: Gentle Prescott, Valley Rivers, 4 feet, 2 inches; long jump: Patton, 11 feet, 9 inches; shot put: Regan Nelson, PI, 35 feet, 3 inches; discus: Nelson, 67 feet, 4 inches.
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| Staff photo/Kevin Sjoberg Union 122’s Andrew Christie makes an attempt at the discus throw during the Aroostook County middle school meet. |
Boys
100-meter dash: Kamran Hussain, Valley Rivers, 13.25 seconds; 200-meter dash: O’Berry, 27.08 seconds; 400-meter dash: O’Berry, 1:00.83; 800-meter run: Dillon Beckum, Union 122, 2:19; 1,600-meter run: O’Berry, 5:45; 100-meter hurdles: Hussain, 15.67 seconds; 4 X 100-meter relay: Caribou (Matt Caron, Apollo Grondin, Caleb Hunter and David Hunter), 56.78 seconds; 4 X 200-meter relay: Caribou (Caron, Grondin, C. Hunter and D. Hunter), 1:59.99; high jump: Conner Murchison, PI, 5 feet; long jump: Beckum, 15 feet, 6 inches; shot put: Josh Prestwood, Caribou, 37 feet, 9-1/2 inches; discus: Lance McKenney, Fort Fairfield, 98 feet, 2 inches.
