Seawolves indoor track holds own through mid-season

Wed, 01/31/2024 - 1:30pm

The Boothbay-Wiscasset indoor track athletes lagged behind the previous week’s strong performance at the Jan. 26 Class B meet in Gorham. With only one regular season meet left, individual athletes placed in the middle of the pack while teams saw a slight drop. 

Complete results are as follows: 

For the girls: Rose Campbell placed fourth in junior division 55m dash in 8.19; Karen Higgins placed fifth in the one-mile run in 6:00.5 and second in the two-mile run in 13:31.71; Abbie Clark placed fourth in senior division 400m dash in 1:17.71; Campbell placed third in junior division 200m dash in 29.46; Campbell placed 12 in junior division shotput with 19-0.75. 

For the boys: Ross Gaffney placed 17th in junior division 55m dash in 8.76; Austin Trask, Alton King, Chase Mansfield, Neal Baldwin and Edward Carpenter placed seventh, 15th, 26th, 27th and 29th in senior division 55m dash in 7.24, 7.46, 8.78, 9.15 and 10.40; Gaffney placed 18th in junior division 200m dash in 34.13; Baldwin placed 23rd in senior division 200m dash in 33.40; Trask placed fourth in senior division 400m dash in 1:00.22; Ronan Drage and Jacob Charlton placed eighth and ninth in the 800m run in 3:13.47 and 3:18.98; AJ Crocker placed fourth in the one-mile run in 5:21.49; Crocker and Cleyton Splaine placed fourth and fifth in the two-mile run in 11:18.10 and 11:49.39; Trask and King placed fourth and fifth in the long jump with 18-4 and 18-0.5; King placed third in senior division 55m hurdles in 9.44; Rodi Mayne, Baldwin and Carpenter placed 15th, 17th and 18th in senior division shotput with 25-5.50, 22-4.25 and 21-4.

The Boothbay girls senior and junior division teams won fifth out of six. The Wiscasset boys senior division team won fifth out of seven. In the open division, the Boothbay boys won sixth of eight, the Wiscasset boys took eighth and the Boothbay girls took sixth of six.