Cross Country: Capers hosts five-way meet, Yarmouth prevails

Cape Elizabeth hosted a whopper of a meet to kick off the season on Friday, Sept. 2, welcoming Yarmouth, Maine Coast Waldorf School, Lake Region and Gray-New Gloucester. The Clippers won both the girls’ and the boys’ sides of the bill in impressive fashion, with the Capers coming in a respectable second.

Complete Boys Team Results

1. Yarmouth, 38; 2. Cape, 44; 3. Maine Coast, 49; 4. G-NG, 106; 5. Lake Region, 139

Top 25 Boys Individual Results

1. Luke Laverdiere, Yarmouth, 15:23; 2. Tucker Pierce, Maine Coast, 16:02; 3. Sammy Potter, Yarmouth, 16:38; 4. Mac Huffard, Cape, 16:46; 4. Nick Neveu, Maine Coast, 16:46; 6. Dylan Wu, Maine Coast, 16:47; 7. Jack Bassett, Cape, 16:59; 8. Arsen Scheindel, Cape, 17:06; 9. Ben Cox-Faxon, Yarmouth, 17:33; 10. John Decker, Yarmouth, 17:43; 11. Aidan Willitts, Cape, 17:49; 12: Parker Morse, G-NG, 18:11; 13. Eli Gundersen, Maine Coast, 18:20; 14. Noah Long, Cape, 18:23; 14. Patrick Mallett, Yarmouth, 18:23; 16. Ashanti Haywood, Yarmouth, 18:27; 17. Cullen Sullivan, Cape, 18:29; 18. Rohan Freedman, Cape, 18:31; 19. Jeff McCubrey, Lake Region, 18:46; 20. Will Corsello, Cape Elizabeth, 18:47; 21. Tony Inhorn, Cape, 18:49; 22. Justin Pietropaoli, Yarmouth, 18:52; 23. Kyle Long, Cape, 18:54; 24. Ravi Patel, Yarmouth, 19:05; 25. Seth Levier, G-NG, 19:08

Complete Girls Team Results

1. Yarmouth, 25; 2. Cape, 28; 3. Maine Coast, 83; 4. G-NG, 101; 5. Lake Region, 117

Top 25 Girls Individual Results

1. Abigail Hamilton, Yarmouth, 17:59; 2. Georgia Giese, Yarmouth, 19:50; 3. Kelsey Kennedy, Cape, 19.59; 4. Emma Shedd, Cape, 20:06; 5. Olivia Skillings, Maine Coast, 20:19; 6. Katie Waeldner, Yarmouth, 20:22; 7. Lillian Kuhn, Yarmouth, 20:49; 8. Camilla Grosso, Cape, 20:52; 9. Sadie Cowles, Yarmouth, 20:53; 10. Erica Schlicting, G-NG, 21:15; 11. Alicia Lawrence, Cape, 21:35; 12. Chloe Butzel, Cape, 21:41; 13. Addie Hayes, Cape, 21:41.10; 14. Kate Ginder, Cape, 22:09; 15. Louise Ahearne, Maine Coast, 22:18; 16. Sarah Kenniston, Cape, 22:31; 17. Addie Blais, Lake Region, 22:39; 18. Lily Bergh, Cape, 22:45; 19. Zahra Freedman, Cape, 22:55; 20. Kennedy Brake, Lake Region, 23:00; 21; Kylie Trawick, G-NG, 23:16; 22. E. Mathis, Maine Coast, 23:19; 23. Anna Friberg, Cape, 23:22; 24. C. Kelliner, Maine Coast, 23:24; 25. Molly O’Sullivan, Cape, 23:32

Aidan Willitts took 11th place in Friday’s five-team mashup.

Mighty Luke Laverdiere won the boys’ race at Cape on Friday, narrowly missing the course record.

MCWS’s Calvin Soule crossed the line in 19:20 on Friday.

Keegan Delaney finished Friday’s race in 19:17.

Patriot Seth Levier finished 25th in Friday’s race, in a time of 19:08.

Jeff McCubrey of LRHS finished 19th in Friday’s race.

MCWS’s Eli Gundersen finished 13th, in a time of 18:20.

Parker Morse finished 12th among all boys in Friday’s race, and crossed the line first for G-NG.

Caper Arsen Scheindel earned eighth place at Friday’s home meet.

Jack Bassett, just a freshman, took seventh out of a pack of almost 80 boys on Friday.

Caper Mac Huffard (left) vies with Dylan Wu (middle) and Nick Neveu (right), both of MCWS. Huffard and Neveu tied for fourth, in a time of 16:46, while Wu crossed the line a fraction of a second later.