The Lewiston High School senior crossed the finish line in fifth place out of 870 runners, completing the 5k Festival of Champions in 16 minutes, 12.46 seconds on Saturday at Troy Howard Middle School. Harris shaved off nine seconds from last year’s race, when he finished eighth. “It feels amazing,” Harris said. “I achieved my […]
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Cross country: Festival of Champions brings regions top teams together
The biggest cross country meet of the regular season takes place Saturday in Belfast. The annual Festival of Champions will gather 72 schools from around Maine, as well as five other schools from around New England and Canada. “There’s always tough competition there because there’s not just Maine teams,” Mt. Blue coach Kelley Cullenberg said. […]
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USATF-Maine 2014 Cross Country Schedule
USATF-Maine 2014 Cross Country Schedule Developmental Meets Smiling Hill Farm, County Road, Westbrook, Sunday, Oct. 12, Ron Kelly 745-4781 Saxl Park, Mt. Hope Ave., Bangor, Sunday, Oct. 12, Allan Geiser, 944-3870 Mt. Blue High School, (field across from high school), Farmington, Sunday, Oct. 19, Kelly Cullenberg 860-0306 Smiling Hill Farm, County Road, Westbrook, Sunday, Oct. […]
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Cross country notebook: Teams halfway there
The midway point of the cross country season is here. Last Wednesday, the Mountain Valley Conference held its annual mid season race at the University of Maine at Augusta. St. Dominic Academy won the girls’ team event with 23 points. Ella Brown finished third with a time of 22 minutes on the 5-kilometer course. Her […]
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H.S. Cross Country: Cougars’ Hickey making giant strides
In middle school, Maggie Hickey didn’t give a lot of thought to cross country. A few years later, she’s Mt. Blue’s top runner as a sophomore and a captain for a young Cougars squad. “I was on the cross country team, but I was last or pretty close to last on the cross country team,” […]
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Cross country running: Lewiston pair goes 1-2 at Oxford Hills meet
Harris and Osman were running alongside one other as they completed the first lap of the two-lap course at Roberts Farm in Norway on Friday afternoon. When they came around a second time, Doorow broke away to win event in a time of 18:46. Harris was two seconds behind him, holding off a late-charging Harrison […]
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Cross country: America, St. Dom’s works for Villamarin
Diego Villamarin’s family came to the United States seeking a better way of life. Originally, the St. Dominic Academy junior is from Arequipa, Peru, which is the second largest city in Peru with a population of 861,144. He moved to America when he was six with his family where they settled first in Pennsylvania before […]
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Cross country notebook: Injured runner inspires Bears
Maranacook ran inspired on Friday at the KVAC cross country meet at Leavitt High Area School as the boys’ team finished third and the girls’ team took home first place. Thursday evening, their teammate Colin Liscord was involved in a crash in Fayette. On Friday, the Kennebec Journal reported he was listed in critical condition at […]
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Cross country: Mt. Blue boys, Maranacook girls capture Leavitt meet
Aaron Willingham won the boys’ race with a finishing time of 16:36.14, and Maggie Hickey crossed the line with a finishing time of 21:28. “They came off a really hard workout on Monday, which was amazing,” Mt. Blue coach Kelley Cullenberg said. “You give them times to shoot for, but it’s not a race, so […]
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Cross country notebook: A season of coaching changes
Cross country running teams saw quite the turnover in terms of coaching for the start of the 2014 season. Of the 14 schools that offer the sport in the tri-county area, five have hired new coaches — Lewiston, Lisbon, Oxford Hills, St. Dom’s and Telstar. That doesn’t include Spruce Mountain, either, which just added the team […]