KVAC All-Conference and All-Academic Teams

Ruth White repeats as New England cross country champion

White, an Orono HIgh junior, wins for the second year in a row, finishing 42 seconds ahead of her closest challenger. Edward Little's Payton Bell and Leavitt's Logan Ouellette have area's top finishes.

Technology and cybersecurity plans on RSU 9 officials’ radar screens

Mt. Blue High School sports programs are growing and setting the standard for high school sportsmanship, while the subject of tightening cybersecurity is on the horizon for Superintendent Christian Elkington.

Maine running pioneer and longtime Mt. Ararat track and field coach Diane Fournier retires

Fournier, 75, who ran the 1970 Boston Marathon before women could officially enter, coached nearly 50 years at Mt. Ararat.

MVC all-conference and all-academic teams

Boys cross country: Gray-New Gloucester’s Carter Libby falls but still wins Class B title

Slips don't stop Libby or Class C winner William Hileman of Bucksport. Hampden, Freeport and George Stevens earn team championships.

Girls cross country: Bonny Eagle, York and Orono run to titles

Edward Little's Payton Bell fourth in Class A. New England champion Ruth White of Orono runs the day's fastest time — by 49 seconds — and Bonny Eagle's Addy Thibodeau and York's Cary Drake also earn individual titles.

Girls cross country: Winthrop’s Haley Williams 2nd in C South, Cape Elizabeth, Bonny Eagle, Waynflete win team titles

Cape Elizabeth wins Class B South by the slimmest of margins, Bonny Eagle dominates Class A and Waynflete knocks off defending champ Maranacook in C.

Boys cross country: Winthrop, Freeport, Portland win South titles

Winthrop's James Cognata wins the Class C South race to pace the champion Ramblers, and Freeport's Henry Horne surges in the homestretch to beat Leavitt's Logan Ouellette in the Class B race.

Cross country: Edward Little’s Payton Bell wins, Mt. Blue girls runners-up in A North

Hampden Academy repeats as A North boys champion; Orono's Ruth White smokes competition in C North girls race.