Wiscasset Middle High School had some outstanding individual performances at the Mountain Valley Conference Championship meet hosted by Lisbon Thursday afternoon, May 24.

Grace Webber won the high jump clearing 5-2; Mountain Valley’s Lauren Stearling cleared 5-0 and placed second.

Grace also ran the third leg of the 4x100-meter relay race the Wolverines won. The other three relay team members were Grace's younger sister Gwen Webber, Vanessa Dunn and Ayanna Stover. Together they bested a field of 10 other teams and posted a winning time of 52.94. Spruce Mountain was second at 53.40 and Winthrop third, in 53.48.

Wiscasset’s Ayanna Stover and Mountain Valley’s Lauren Sterling ran neck-and-neck in the 100-meter hurdles. Sterling won the race finishing in 15.9 seconds, Stover was second in 16.54 and Monmouth Academy’s Emily Grandahl third, 17.19.

Stover was also second in the triple jump, 32-3.25; Hannah St. Pierre won the event, 32-9.5. St. Pierre also won the long jump, 15-10.5; Stover placed fifth with a leap just under 14-8.

Matt Chapman is the MVC’s new hurdles champion. He won both 110 and 300-meter hurdles. Chapman finished the 110 hurdles in 16.17 seconds with Mountain Valley’s Cameron Payne crossing the finish line a close second, 17.24. Chapman’s winning time in the 300 hurdles was 43.16 with Dirigo’s Cam Kidder following on his heels in second place, 43.96.

Among the most exciting races of the day was the 200-meter dash. Grace Webber ran side by side with Winthrop’s Jill Schmelzer down the straight away. Schmelzer crossed the finish line first, barely, in 26.92 seconds. Webber was two tenths of a second behind her with a time of 26.94 and Emma Houle from Lisbon was third, 28.58.

Vanessa Dunn came in third in the 300-meter hurdles running close on the heels of Monmouth’s Libby Clement and Grandahl who finished one and two in the event. Clement’s winning time was 50.48, Grandahl’s 52.11 while Dunn’s time was 52.76.

Max Sampson placed second behind Mountain Valley’s Chris Glover in the triple jump. Their jumps measured 41-6 and 40-8, respectively.

Sampson came in fourth in the long jump, 19-10. Hall-Dale’s Matt Albert won the event edging out Madison’s Darin Libby by three-quarters of an inch with a winning jump just under 20-3.

WMHS’s boys 4x100 relay team of Chapman, Max Sampson, Sam Strozier and Cedrick Loyola placed fifth with a time of 48.77. Mt. Abram’s team won the event with Mountain Valley second followed by Spruce Mountain and Lisbon.

Wiscasset’s 4x400 relay team of Strozier, Josh Gabriele, Josh Jones and Chapman placed seventh,in 4:06.43. Monmouth was first, followed by Boothbay Region, then Lisbon.

All in all it was a good day for Coach Josiah Winchenbach and the Wolverines. The team will begin training for the State C meet to be hosted by Massabesic High on Saturday, June 2.

Class D WMHS finished fifth in the girls’ meet with 53 points, one point behind Winthrop. Monmouth captured the MVC title, Lisbon was second and Spruce Mountain third.

Lisbon won the boys MVC title, Hall-Dale was second and Monmouth third. WMHS placed eighth overall among 13 high schools.

Coach Winchenbach said Matt Chapman broke his own 110-meter hurdle school record and Grace Webber broke the ladies 200-meter WMHS record.