After a torrential downpour delayed the start of the Mountain Valley Conference Championship track meet at Cony High School’s Alumni Field, a second storm less than two hours later forced officials to delay the rest of the event until Monday. It will resume at 2 p.m.
Ten events were run to completion before the postponement — eight track events and two field events. With 14 events remaining for both the boys and girls, the Greyhounds find themselves in the driver’s seat.
The boys won three of five events and have accumulated 59 points. They hold a 33-point lead on Boothbay. Madison (22), Mountain Valley (15) and Dirigo (14) round out the top five. The girls’ lead is much smaller, sporting a two-point lead over Monmouth Academy with 38 points. Boothbay (19.5) is third, followed by Mountain Valley (16.5) and Winthrop (15).
“It was limited events, but some pluses along the way,” Lisbon coach Dean Hall said. “We can’t tell. We’ve got about one-third of the meet through, maybe not even. It’s hard to tell.”
The day began with the Lisbon girls’ 4×800 relay team defending its title in 10 minutes, 41.86 seconds. It topped Monmouth by nearly 10 seconds.
Three other events saw repeat winners. St. Dom’s Sydney Sirois claimed another MVC title in the 1,600 race walk in 8:14.22 and Boothbay’s Morgan Crocker edged Lisbon’s Chase Collier in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.73. Andrew Golino’s throw of 42-feet, 4-inches in the shot put was one of five victories for the Greyhounds on the rain-shortened day.
Also recording victories for Lisbon were Jeff Willey in the boys’ 1,600 race walk, Collier in the 100 dash and Charles Adams in the 110 hurdles. Collier edged Dirigo’s Sabrina Daoud by five-hundredths of a second.
The Dirigo boys’ 4×800 relay kept the Greyhounds from sweeping the event. The team of Ben Buck, Jacob Larsen, Cody Cunningham and Hunter White finished in 8:41.17, five seconds faster than Lisbon.
Monmouth’s Abby Allen claimed the girls high jump title with a jump of 4-08. She bested six jumpers who all cleared 4-06.
Mountain Valley’s Kyle Farrar closed out the shortened session by clipping Madison’s Jordan Curtis by a hundredth of a second with rain blanketing the track.
The rest of the field will have to wait until after the weekend to return to the track in hopes of capturing an individual conference title.
“It’s tough,” Hall said. “That’s why it’s good to be young.”
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