Boothcasset track looks toward MVCs, States after season’s first meet
A slew of Boothcasset Seawolves track athletes qualified for Mountain Valley Conference and State championships April 19. The teams faced off against Hall-Dale and Winthrop high schools on home turf at Wiscasset Middle High School with the boys outscoring Winthrop by one point and the girls taking second behind Winthrop.
Austin Trask and Bryan Gagnon qualified for MVCs and provisionally for States in the 100m and 200m dashes respectively. Trask also previously qualified in high and long jumps for MVCs, Payton Blagdon for long jump and Kayden Ames for discus and shot put (at MVCs and States). Others qualifying for MVCs: Blagdon, 400m dash; Tristan Pepe, 100m and 200m dashes; Marshall Wall, 3200m run; Nate Benoit, 110m and 300m hurdles; and Zach Rollins, shot put.
Jaelyn Crocker qualified for MVCs in shot put, Josie Harrington in shot put and 100m hurdles and Ava Schlosser in the 1600m racewalk. Crocker also qualified previously for MVCs in discus.
Girls results: Anna and Emily Gosselin took fifth and seventh in the 100m dash in 15.97s and 18.15s. Emily Gilliam took third in the 400m dash in 1:13.87 and fourth in the triple jump with 24’0.5”. Schlosser took second in the 800m dash in 3:06.05. Emerson Harris took first and Julia Truesdell second in the 3200m run in 14:48.7 and 15:33.18. Josie Harrington took first in the 100m hurdles in 19.04 and second in the high jump with 4’6”. Crocker, Marissa Davison and Alivia Orr took fourth, fifth and seventh in discus with 59’4”, 58’3” and 40’10”. Anna Gosselin, Davison, Emily Gosselin and Orr took third, fifth, sixth and seventh in javelin with 58’9”, 44’5”, 43’3” and 33’3”. Crocker, Harrington, Davison, Orr and Linnea Andersson took second, third, sixth, seventh and eighth in shot put with 26’3”, 25’1”, 21’5”, 20’ and 17’. Schlosser and Andersson took first and second in the 1600m race-walk in 9:43.01 and 12:22.36.
Boys results: Trask, Pepe, Henry Putnam and Thomas Babineau took first, third, fifth and 12th place in the 100m dash in 12.09, 12.78, 13.22 and 15.95. Gagnon and Pepe took first and second in the 200m dash in 24.98 and 26.1. Blagdon and Putnam took first and second in the 400m dash in 59.09 and 1:05.53. Ryan Clark took second in the 1600m run in 5:23.07. Marshall Wall took first in the 3200m run in 12:18.96. Nate Benoit took first in both the 110m and 300m hurdles in 22.68 and 59.13. Trask and Benoit took second and eighth in the long jump with 16’0.25” and 12’11.75”. Ames, Rollins, Caden Royal, Brady Nichols and Babineau took first, seventh, 10th, 16th and 17th in discus with 133’2.5”, 82’9”, 76’7”, 48’4.5” and 45’6.5”. Putnam and Blagdon took fifth and seventh in javelin with 87’ and 80’7”. Ames, Rollins, Royal and Nichols took first, second, 10th and 17th in shot put with 41’6.5”, 36’3”, 28’8” and 22’11.5”.