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Staff reports 10/21/2007

A week after finishing second in their conference meet, the Winthrop boys placed first Saturday at the Western Maine regional cross country championships at Twin Brooks Recreation Center in Cumberland.

Winthrop won the Class C boys title while Waynflete captured the Class C girls championship. Class A titles went to the Portland boys and Scarborough girls while Cape Elizabeth captured both Class B titles.

Half the teams in each race qualified for next Saturday's state championship meet at Leavitt High School in Turner. Additionally, the top 20 individual finishers in Class A and B and the top 30 in Class C qualified for the state meet.

Winthrop lost to Lisbon by four points at last week's Mountain Valley Conference meet, but beat the Greyhounds by 22 on Saturday. Winthrop senior Danny Soltan won the Class C race, five seconds ahead of Hall-Dale's Wade Davis, while teammate Tor O'Brien placed third.

"They did very well," Winthrop coach Jay Lindsey said. "They ran the way I thought they were capable of running. Last week, Lisbon beat us and they had the better race." The Ramblers placed their top six runners among the first 14 finishers with Alex Cottrell finishing 10th, Justin Carpenter 11th, Kevin Leavitt 13th and Pat Romar 14th.

Hall-Dale finished third in the 15-team field while Monmouth took fourth. In the girls Class C race, Monmouth, Madison and Hall-Dale finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively to qualify for the state meet. Hall-Dale's Magen Ellis finished second, 11 seconds behind Waynflete's Adele Espy.

The Maranacook boys and girls failed to qualify for next week's state Class B meet, with the girls placing seventh out of 12 teams and the boys finishing ninth out of 13. Jenny Monsulick finished fifth for the Black Bears to qualify for the individual title and will be joined by teammate Taylor Burr, who placed 14th. Maranacook's Jacob Knox (6th) and Tucker Mitchell (19th) also qualified.

In the Eastern Regionals in Belfast, the Cony boys and girls qualified for next week's state meet with both teams finishing fifth. Sophomore Luke Fontaine paced the Rams with a ninth-place finish while Morgan Beede led the girls in 12th place.

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