The Scarborough High girls track and field team had too much experience and too much depth and the Storm ran away with their second straight Southwestern Maine Activities Association championship on Saturday. Scarborough enjoyed a “home field” advantage, but the girls would have won this event no matter where it was held.
Scarborough was the only team over 100 points finishing the competition at 122.70. Thornton Academy (90.20) finished in the runner-up spot, just as they did a year ago, and they gave the Storm all they could handle all day long. (The Trojans were the SMAA champs from 2003-05.) Gorham took third at 86.5 while McAuley (45) placed fourth and Sanford took fifth (40).
The Red Storm opened the meet with a 15-second win in the 3200 relay. They later added a win in the 1600 relay and a third-place finish in the 400 relay.
Individual winners for the Red Storm included senior Kaitlynn Saldanha (2:22.49) and Devon Leighton in the pole vault (9-0). Saldanha added a runner-up time in the racewalk while Leighton placed second in the triple before tying for sixth in the high jump
Other Scarborough scorers were Annie Mills (second in the 100 hurdles, Jenny Snyder (fifth in the 100 hurdles and sixth in the 100), Erica Jesseman (second in the 3200 and third in the 1600), Allison Chamberlain (second in the 400), Jenna Van Dam (fifth in the 400), Hilary Curtis (fourth in the 800), Christy Manning (second in the javelin, third in the discus), Sarah Gordon (third in the pole vault), and Mallory Gordon (fifth in the pole vault).
South Portland’s girls scored 18 points at Saturday’s conference meet.
Olivia Hendry had a fourth-place effort in the 1600 for the Red Riots. Lindsay Soule placed fourth in the 300 hurdles and Julie Swett finished fourth in the javelin. The Red Riots also finished third in the 3200 relay.
Scarborough boys finish fifth
Gorham won the SMAA boys championship with 99 points. Thornton Academy took second (76.5) followed by Deering (66), Biddeford (56) and then Scarborough (55) in the 15-team competition.
The Red Storm had first place finishes from Taylor Burns in the racewalk (7:44.7), Brecht Moulin in the 800 (2:01.39) and Ben Talbot in the 3200 (10:12.7). Talbot also took third in the 1600.
Scarborough also had fine performances from Sam Chick (sixth in the 300 hurdles and fourth in the triple jump) and Ben Abrahams (fifth in the pole vault). And the Red Storm 1600 and 3200 relay teams both finished third.
South Portland finished with 14 points at Saturday’s event thanks to Will Cabana (sixth in the 100 and sixth in the 200), John Johnston (fifth in the racewalk), Ian Golder (fourth in the 400), and Nick Huston (fifth in the 110 hurdles). The Red Riots also finished fourth in the 400 relay.
Cape girls fifth at WMC meet
The Greely girls held off York to win Saturday’s Western Maine Conference track and field championship at Yarmouth. The Rangers finished with 141.5 points to best York (137), Falmouth (100), Fryeburg (70), and Cape Elizabeth (56) at the top of the 16-team competition.
The Capers’ Emily Atwood won the league title in the 1600 at 5:29.92.
Cape’s other scorers included Carolyn Doane (second in the racewalk), Marita Stressenger (second in the 800), Emma Hockmouth (third in the pole vault and fifth in the high jump), Cathy Wise (fourth in the javelin), and Hannah Doss (seventh in the 800).
The Cape Elizabeth 1600 relay team (Stressenger, Doane, Doss and Emily Attwood) finished in fourth and the 3200 relay team (Doss, Attwood, Stressenger and Shannon Lyons) took second.
Cape’s Bickford wins long jump
Joel Bickford of Cape Elizabeth was the best long jumper at Saturday’s Western Maine Conference championship meet at Yarmouth. Bickford’s leap of 20-09.5 topped the field. He also placed eighth in the 200 and
Falmouth won the WMC boys meet with 106 points. The Capers finished with 47 points thanks to Bickford’s first-place effort and other strong showings by Brendan Flynn (fifth in the 3200), Ryan Gross (fourth in the 800), Stanis Moody-Roberts (second in the 1600 and fifth in the 800), and Colin Whiteman (fourth in the pole vault).
The Capers also took third in the 3200 relay (Gross, Flynn, Moody-Roberts, and Tike McColl) and the 1600 relay team finished fifth (Gross, Moody-Roberts, Bickford and Brendan Shields).
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