By Kevin Sjoberg
Sports Reporter
BAR HARBOR — The MDI Relays serves as one of the most unique high school track and field meets in the state and Caribou and Fort Fairfield made the trip to participate in the event Saturday.
The Caribou girls posted 61 points to finish in seventh place. Alissa Irving won the 1,600-meter race walk in 9 minutes, 36.84 seconds, with teammates Meredith Sleeper (fourth, 9:52.56) and Jessika Kovach (fifth, 10:54.3) also placing and scoring points.
In the distance medley 4K, Chelsea Bard, Alissa Randolph, Olivia Sleeper and Sarah Doak took third in 14:05.48.
Caribou’s high jump team, led by Nerissa Larrabee’s fourth-place individual performance at 4 feet, 8 inches, came in third place with a combined mark of 13-4.
Also placing for the Vikes were the 1,600 freshman sprint medley team, the 4×100 shot put relay team, the 4×800 and 4×400 relay teams and the triple jump team. Larrabee was also sixth in the 1,600 (5:55.43) and Jubilee MacLeod sixth in the javelin (79-3).
The Tigers placed ninth in the competition with 28 points.
Leading the way for Fort Fairfield was the javelin team, which took second at 234 feet, with Logan Bubar pacing the Tigers by placing fourth individually at 84-4. She was also fifth in the discus (78-7) as the Tigers were third as a team at 210-6.
Fort’s 4×60 shuttle hurdle team and the 4×100 team also placed, as did Sarah Owens individually in the 100 hurdles (sixth, 19.07 seconds).
The Tiger boys came in ninth place with 20 points. The FF triple jump team was the event champion with 111 feet, .75 inches and the discus team also was a winner at 333-8. Andrew Lewis was the individual winner in the triple jump at 42-6.35 and the discus at 144-1.
Lewis also had the top mark in the high jump (6-0).
Caribou, which was 10th as a team with 18, had two race walkers place. Mitchell St. Peter was the event runner-up in 8:37.1 and Tyler Strid was fifth in 9:36.04.
The Vikes’ distance medley 4K team of Ron Lund, Alex Losieniecki, Keith Draper and Lucas Kinney was fourth in 12:10.17. Lund also place fifth individually in the 1,600 in 4:57.92.
