The senior won the Class B title, running the fastest time across all classes despite a broken collarbone that delayed the start to his season.

State champions Samantha Moore and Zoe Carroll pace the list of the area's top 10 runners.

From the County to Cumberland, Ewings was the state’s top runner all season.

State champions Sam Laverdiere and Aran Johnson highlight this year's squad.

Talent was evenly spread from Class A to Class C on the trails this fall.

We wrap up our Varsity Maine fall sports honorees with the top football players as selected by the sports staffs at Central Maine newspapers, the Press Herald and the Sun Journal.

Star runner Samantha Moore is off to U. Conn; Top soccer player Anneliese Collin to play at U. Mass-Lowell.

Portland's Aran Johnson prevails over a tight pack of runners, but Scarborough beats the defending champion Bulldogs by one point in the team competition.

Portland's Aran Johnson prevails over a tight pack of runners, but Scarborough beats the defending champion Bulldogs by one point in the team competition.

Falmouth claims its first Class A girls' title, joining Mt. Desert (Class B) and Waynflete (Class C) as team champions.

Freeport and Portland repeat as team champions, while Dirigo pulls out the victory in Class C

Falmouth (Class A), Freeport (Class B) and Waynflete (Class C) capture team titles.

Maine's renowned courses – at Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast and Twin Brook Recreation Area in Cumberland – present unique challenges to competitors.

Gray, a junior from Portsmouth High in Rhode Island, breaks an 11-year old mark, while Zoe Mosher of Nova Scotia wins the girls' title.

After years of dominance, the Bonny Eagle girls are rebuilding and several other team and individual races have a host of contenders.

The cross country season begins Friday, and here are 10 Midcoast runners poised for big success this fall.

Orono senior Ruth White wins the cross country award a third time after another dominating season.

Cross country: The Orono senior posts the third-best result ever by a Maine schoolgirl at the national championships.

The indefatiguable White led Orono to a sixth straight Class C state title and claimed her third New England cross country championship, two more than any runner in Maine history.

The state's impressive depth showed clearly at the New England meet, where Maine schoolgirls claimed six of the top 15 spots.

Five of the honorees will return to the trails next fall.

The senior from Noble High overcame injury and illness to win the Class A state meet and finish sixth in New England.

The three-time New England cross country champion from Orono finishes third at the Northeast Regional in Boston.

Orono senior Ruth White and Greater Houlton Christian Academy junior Teanne Owings turn in the day's fastest times, by far.

The Bulldogs hold off Scarborough in Class A, while Freeport extends its Class B streak and Sumner runs away with the Class C crown.

The Bonny Eagle girls gear up for a fifth consecutive Class A crown, and Orono senior Ruth White remains head and shoulders above her peers.

Lake Region junior Sam Laverdiere wins Class B individual honors in the day's fastest time.

Soren Stark-Chessa, a sophomore at Maine Coast Waldorf School, controlled the Class C South girls' race from start to finish, with support from the crowd.

Portland's Samantha Moore outduels Addy Thibodeau of Bonny Eagle in Class A to post the day's fastest time.

Morse’s Brochu, Lincoln’s O’Mahoney, Brunswick’s Carroll, Oxford Hills’ Hutchinson win solo titles.

Winthrop boys also win team title while Boothbay/Wiscasset takes girls championship.

Cony's course deemed unsuitable for competition after flooding early in season.

Matthew Giardina of Bishop Guertin edges Noble's Maddox Jordan for the boys title.

Matthew Giardina of Bishop Guertin edges Noble's Maddox Jordan for the boys title.

Ryan Dyer is the program's fourth head coach in 11 years, a span in which the Scots have won eight Class A state championships.

The Bonny Eagle girls and Freeport boys are looking to extend their championship reigns.

Keep your eyes on these 10 girls and 10 boys as the regional and state championship near.

This year's team is dominated by juniors and sophomores, with just two seniors on the list.

The 10-member team is split evenly between seniors and juniors.

The senior won every race he ran in Maine this fall and helped the Broncos capture their second straight Class A championship.

The junior is the only Maine high schooler, male or female, to ever repeat as a New England cross country champion.

The two-time New England cross country champion qualifies for the Champs Sports national meet.

White, an Orono HIgh junior, wins for the second year in a row, finishing 42 seconds ahead of her closest challenger.

Fournier, 75, who ran the 1970 Boston Marathon before women could officially enter, coached nearly 50 years at Mt. Ararat.