FA girls indoor track finishes in first, boys come in second

ORONO – The Foxcroft Academy girls indoor track and field team finished in first place during a week six Penobscot Valley Conference/Eastern Maine Indoor Track League meet Jan. 22 at the University of Maine New Balance Field House.

The Ponies scored 74 points, more than twice that of runner-up John Bapst Memorial High School of Bangor’s 33. Sumner Area Memorial High School of East Sullivan was third with eight points.

Senior Kasey Howell won a pair of sprints and anchored the winning 4×200 relay. Howell won the 55 meters in a time of 8.92 seconds, and she had the meet’s top time in the 200 at 32.64 seconds.

Senior Rebekah Demers, sophomores Amara Perfect and Paige Weidman, and Howell combined to run the relay in 2:15.57.

Junior Olivia Hill won the shot put with a throw of 23 feet, 10 inches. Hill finished first in the high jump at a height of 3-09. She also was second in the long jump at 12-04.75.

Demers had another Pony first-place performance in the long jump at a distance of 12-07.25. Demers also came in third in the 200 at 34.39 seconds.

Foxcroft had the top four times in the 55. Following Howell were junior Isabel Gamez in 8.92 seconds, Weidman at 9.03 seconds, and Perfect in fourth place at 9.19 seconds.

Junior Nora Koskela-Koivisto placed second in the 800 in a time of 2:48.50.

The Ponies had the top five times in the 200. Coming in third through fifth were Demers at 34.49 seconds, senior Jasmine Bavaglio in 35.63 seconds, and junior Miriam Perez in fifth place at 36.90 seconds.

Perfect added a third-place throw in the shot at 18-11.75.

The Foxcroft boys scored 52 points to place second among a field of five schools. John Bapst came in first with 79 points, Sumner was third with 47 points, the Bangor Christian School was fourth with 15 points, and Dexter Regional High School came in fifth with five points.

Pony senior Jacob Reed led the team by winning the three jumping events. Reed earned top honors in the long jump at a distance of 18-04.50 and in the triple jump at 36-09.50. Reed cleared the bar at 5-08 to win the high jump.

Junior Eion McCloskey won the 55 in 7.35 seconds, and classmate Kyle Jankunas was right behind in 7.54 seconds. The two both were part of the second-place 4×200 relay as sophomore Zachary Peirce, Jankunas, junior Douglas Rowe, and McCloskey combined for a time of 1:49.89.

Jankunas also had a fourth-place performance in the long jump at 15-06.

Freshman Runner Jarrett came in second in the 2-mile at 11:15.21

Peirce was second in the mile at 6:01.52.

Rowe had a fifth-place finish in the 200 in 28.01 seconds.

For Dexter, senior Miles Gadwah scored the team’s five points. Gadwah won the 55-meter hurdle finals in a time of 10.30 seconds.