Boys’ track team hosts MVC meet
The Boothbay/Wiscasset boys track and field team had 10 athletes place in the 18-event competition’s Top 6 on May 7 during the Mountain Valley Conference meet in Wiscasset. The team had two athletes finish second. King finished second in the long jump and AJ Crocker finished second in the 1600M.
The following Boothbay/Wiscasset athletes placed in their event’s Top 6. In the 100M dash, King finished sixth with a 12.65 second mark. Winthrop’s Teddy Wagner won with a 11.95. In the 400M dash, Austin Trask finished fourth with a 58.48 second mark. Winthrop’s Alfie Cognata won with 55.93. In the 800M run, AJ Crocker finished fifth with a two-minute, 25.08 mark. Winthrop’s Gabriel Corey won with 2:12.87.
In the 1600M run, Crocker finished second with a five-minute, 10.22 second time. Winthrop’s Christopher Pottle won with 4:52.41. In the 3200M, Ross Gaffney finished second with a 14-minute, 9.12 second mark.
In the 300M hurdles, King finished third with a 49.13 second time. Lisbon’s Emmett Mooney won with 40.8. In the 4X100M relay team, Lysander Lefevre, Finn Gaffney, King and Trask finished third with a 50.17 second mark. Lisbon won with 47.34. In the discus, Robbie Shaw finished sixth with a 93-foot toss. Winthrop’s Hunter Reynolds won with a 103-09 throw. In the 1600M race walk, Ross Gaffney finished third with a nine-minute, 10.65 second time. Lisbon’s Ryan Hanlon won with a 9:07.71 mark.
In the long jump, King finished second with an 18-foot, four-inch mark. Trask finished fourth with a 16-05-foot jump. Lisbon’s Nick Powell won with 18-04.
The team’s next meet is Tuesday, May 14 at Maranacook Community High School in Readfield.