The Fort Kent boys outdistanced Mountain Valley, 42-103, placing four skiers in the top 11. The Warrior girls held off Maranacook, 70-103.

Shellby Cowin, of Greenville stole the day, posting a 51.55 run on her first attempt down an extremely fast and ice-covered giant slalom course. Cowin, a sophomore, added a 53.41 on her second run to win the Class B girls’ individual GS championship.

Cowin, who did not finish the slalom competition on Wednesday after catching an edge during her first run, more than made up for it in the GS.

“Today, I wanted to put two good runs down the hill,” Cowin said. “After catching an edge, yesterday, I decided to slow down a little on the pitch, to have a better chance.”

Cowin’s time was nearly six seconds better than second place finisher Margaret Elder of Yarmouth and 11 seconds ahead of Maranacook’s Rachel Tooth, who along with teammate Janika Pakulski placed in the top five.

The Spruce Mountain girls, who stunned the competition with a second-place finish in the slalom, continued to ski well to earn a third-place overall finish in the Class B standings, scoring 117 points.

“We had two girls in the top ten,” Spruce Mountain coach Bill Acritelli said. “We came into today understanding we had to ski smarter, not harder. This team learned that hard work pays off, from the workouts at the beginning of the season to the races at the end.”

Allison Acritelli led the Spruce Mountain effort with a seventh place finish in 2:02.91 while teammate Julia Pomeroy was 10th in 2:06.64.

Gray-New Gloucester’s Keaton McEvoy pulled together a pair of solid runs to finish eighth in 2:03.39.

“I feel it was a really solid day,” McEvoy said. “I skied a high line and was going a little conservative with the ice on the course.”

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After just two years of competitive skiing, Ian McKendry of Forest Hills skied the two fastest boys’ runs of the giant slalom race to take the individual title. McKendry finished with a 1:49.54 for the win.

McKendry, who has just 12 students in his class at Forest Hills, decided to ski with the Greenville team, so he could compete on the slopes during the season.

“When I read in the newspaper about how my friends were doing skiing, I decided I wanted to try it,” he said. “No words can explain how I feel about today.”

“On my first run the gates on the headwall were tough,” McKendry added. “I scrubbed as little as I could on the second run because of the icy conditions.”

After the first run, McKendry held a three-tenths-of-a-second lead over Maranacook’s Nathan Delmar and less than a two-second lead over three other competitors.

Delmar found trouble on his second-run, dropping to 17th, while Fort Kent’s Joey Guimond (2nd), Mountain Valley’s Nick Newman (3rd) and Winthrop’s Maguire Anaszewski (4th) couldn’t make up enough time to pass McKendry.