RUMFORD — The pangs in her stomach echoed the thoughts in her mind.

Elise Luce admitted she felt the pressure Friday. Between being the defending state champion and high hopes for the Mt. Abram alpine team, Luce knew a great deal was riding on her skis on the final day of the Class B state championships at Black Mountain.

“I was really nervous — like sick-to-my-stomach nervous about it,” Luce said. “I knew people expected more out of me. So that added pressure. It made me a little more nervous.”

It wasn’t too long before Luce turned those nerves into energy and two stunning runs on the slalom course. She ended up winning her second consecutive slalom state title by nearly five seconds.

“It felt good to ski well,” said Luce, a junior who also has three consecutive state titles in the giant slalom. “In the MVC slalom, on the first run, I fell. So I was really nervous that I’d fall again today. It feels good to put two solid runs together.”

Her win also helped the Roadrunners win the alpine team state title. Mt. Abram ended up tied with Yarmouth with 86 points. Mt. Abram’s last win in alpine was in 2006.

“It feels really good to have that happen,” Luce said. “My sisters have had that and I haven’t. So it’s nice to have that as a team. We me winning, it feels good, but as a team, it’s a team sport, it feel really good to win it.”

Yarmouth won the slalom event with 40 points with Mt. Abram (46) in second — exactly the reverse of Thursday’s giant slalom team scores.

“We haven’t been the state champions in a while,” Luce said. “So this year, we knew we had the best shot at winning. So that was pressure.”

Yarmouth won the overall state title easily with 138 point. Maranacook was second at 259, with Mt. Abram third at 271.

Luce led after the first run with a time of 41.72. She knew she needed another good finish, not only to win the event but also give her team a chance at the alpine title.

“We were tied with Yarmouth,” she said. “So I really wanted a good run. If I’d fallen, Yarmouth would have beat us definitely.”

Mt. Abram’s Emily Listowich followed in 11th. Anna Pelegay was 16th, with Bailey Debiase in 18th. Hattie Rosenberg added a 23rd-place effort.

Spruce Mountain’s Casidee Couture was fifth. Teammates Emily Acritelli and Emerald Rodriguez took 14th and 15th respectively and Destiny White added a 19th-place finish.

Gray-New Gloucester’s Kaelyn Woods finished 12th in the slalom. That locked up the skimeister award for the freshman. She finished with a total of 37 points for the week. Mt. Abram’s Rosenberg was fifth overall while White was sixth.

“Last year as an eighth-grader, I got it,” Woods said. “That was pretty exciting. I was hoping for something good this year. I didn’t know where I’d stand being a freshman.”

Her mother is the nordic coach at Bates College, while her father is an avid alpine skier. So she admits she’s grown up in the sport. Her goal Friday was to ski well but also secure her title.

“I wanted top 15,” said Woods, who said she skied a little conservative at first to avoid a fall. “After the first run, I was 12th. So I just needed to go out there and get it done.”

On the boys’ side,  Yarmouth won the overall state title with 144 points. Maranacook was second with 185. Gray-New Gloucester was the top local club in fourth.

In the slalom race standings, Yarmouth won with 37, edging out Cape Elizabeth by a point. Spruce Mountain was fifth and Gray-New Gloucester was sixth. Yarmouth claimed the overall alpine crown with a total of 76. Maranacook was second with 105. Spruce Mountain was fifth while Gray-NG took sixth.

Maranacook’s Matt Delmar won the boys’ slalom in 1:15.29. Yarmouth’s Tucker Grout and Matt Highland were second and third.

The top local finisher was Gray-NG’s Noah Lobozzo — he took fifth. Spruce Mountain’s Stephen Sylvester was 13th.

The Patriots’ Eric Wilcox finished 14th in the slalom. That gave him the boys’ skimeister title with 83 points. Camden’s Cole Ellison was second. Spruce Mountain had a trio of skiers that followed. Zach Butterfield was third with Owen Timberlake and Sylvester rounding out the top five.

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