DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Foxcroft Academy boys and Orono girls won Class C outdoor track and field championships at Oakes Field on Saturday.
Foxcroft won its first-ever title by scoring 75 points to place comfortably ahead of runner-up Hall-Dale (58), with Orono (48) and Lisbon and North Yarmouth Academy (42 points each) also finishing among the top five teams in the 30-school field.
The Ponies were led by senior Donald Boyer, who set a Class C state record with his winning time of 15.06 seconds in the 110 hurdles and won the long jump with a best of 21 feet, 10 inches on his final attempt. Boyer also placed second in the long jump and fourth in the high jump.
Foxcroft’s victory marked the first time since 2004 that an Eastern Maine school has won the Class C boys team title.
Orono won the girls’ crown for the second straight year, amassing 105 points compared to 91 for second-place Traip Academy.
The competition between the two schools was tight throughout the afternoon, with the Red Riots finally prevailing as Abby Weigang, Kayla Marquis and Allison Pickering finished 2-3-4 in the pole vault to offset a state-record winning effort of 10 feet, 6 inches by Traip’s Kelsey Barnes in the meet’s final event to be completed.
Lisbon was third in the girls’ field with 54½ points, with Seacoast Christian of South Berwick (44) and Freeport (41) rounding out the top five.
Weigang, a sophomore at Orono, also won both the 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles for the second straight year, the 100 hurdles in 15.85 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 49.12.
Jocelyn Lorrey of Traip and Carsyn Koch of Washburn were other multiple event champions in the girls’ meet.
Lorrey won the long jump (16-2) and triple jump (36-6 ¾) and was part of victorious 4×100 and 4×400 relay teams.
Koch, the defending state champion in the 800 and 1,600 runs, won the 100 dash (13.40) and high jump (5-0) while placing second to Freeport’s Lexi Dietrich (27.0) in the 200.
The Lisbon girls won the opening event of the day as Bree Sautter, Olivia Bulgin, Adrianna White and Kayla Angelico combined for a time of 10:15.85 in the 4×800 relay that was nearly 14 seconds faster than second-place John Bapst of Bangor.
Angelico, a senior for the Greyhounds, also won the javelin with a best throw of 109-2, while White was second in the 800 and Bulgin was the runner-up in the 1,600 race walk.
Marley Byrne of St. Dom’s was third in the 200, while teammate Ellen Tuttle placed third in the race walk.
Anne McKee, a freshman from Kents Hill, won the 1,600 in 5:26.07 and finished second in the 3,200.
Boys’ multi-event winners were led by Josef Holt-Andrews, a junior from Telstar, who won the 1,600 (4:21.18) and 3,200 (9:57.24), and teamed with Austin Ryerson, Bronson Dean and Marverick Griffin to win the 4×800 relay.
Tyler Fitzgerald of Hall-Dale won both the 100 (11.43) and 200 (23.73), Harrison Stivers of Freeport doubled in the 400 (50.74) and 800 (2:02.51) and Andrew Lewis of Fort Fairfield was the champion in the discus (133-4) and high jump (6-2).
Robbie Pallozzi of St. Dom’s won the javelin (157-7), while Lisbon teammates Tyler Bard (7:07.61) and Ben Kates finished 1-2 in the 1,600 race walk and Maranacook’s Andrew Lachance won the shot put with a best of 45-8.
Lisbon’s Aaron Halls placed second in the 200, while Marques Houston of Monmouth Academy was second in the 400.
Orono senior David Frederick set the only other Class C state record during the meet, winning the pole vault with a best of 13 feet, 9 inches.




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