Webber, Chapman lead Wolverine track teams

Wed, 05/08/2019 - 2:45pm

Gwenn Webber won the 200-meter dash and placed in three other events helping lead the Wolverine track team to a third place finish at a Mountain Valley Conference track and field meet Lisbon High School hosted Tuesday afternoon, May 7. Winthrop, Oak Hill, Mountain Valley and Chop Point School also participated.

Wiscasset Middle High School’s Lily Souza placed second in all three weight events. Her shot-put throw measured 26’8.5”. Winthrop’s Aaliyah Wilson-Falcone won with a hurl of 31’6.5”.

Souza's throw in the discus measured 65’5” behind winner Brianna Foley of the combined Lisbon/Oak Hill team. Souza’s javelin throw measured 66’8” behind Lisbon/Oak Hill’s Macie Fletcher’s winning toss of 66’8”.

Webber bested a field of over a dozen sprinters to win the 200 in 29.47 seconds, a personal best. Lisbon’s Gabby Chessie finished second, 29:49. Wolverine Lily Cooper was ninth.

Winthrop’s Jillian Schmelzer won the 100-meter dash in 13.03. Webber came second, in 14.18. Chop Point’s Josie Harrington finished fourth in 14.5. Cooper was eighth.

Webber also placed second in the 100-meter hurdles in 19.03, another personal best for the season. Lisbon/Oak Hill’s Destiny Deschaines won in 18.16.

Webber cleared 4’2” placing third in the high jump. Winthrop’s Autumn Gerry won, clearing 4’10”. Chop Point’s Harrington was second, 4’8”.

The combined team of Lisbon/Oak Hill won the meet with 182 points. Winthrop was second with 68, followed by WMHS, 42; Mountain Valley, 34; and Chop Point 12.

Wolverine boys finish second

Matt Chapman won three events and the Wolverines placed second behind the combined team of Lisbon/Oak Hill who finished with 174 points; WMHS tallied 83, Mountain Valley was third with 81 and Winthrop’s point total was 45.

Chapman was the top finisher in the 200-meter dash in 25.01. His teammate Chris Loyola placed third, 25.99. Chapman remained unbeaten in the hurdles this season. He posted winning times of 17.06 seconds in the 110-meter low hurdles and 45.10 the 300-meter hurdles. WMHS’s Dustin Manson finished eighth in the 110-hurdles, 24.19.

Wolverine Josh Gabriele had his best day of the season. He won the triple jump leaping 38’2”; Muhammad Khalique placed fifth with a jump of 32’2”.

Gabriele placed second in the high jump clearing five feet. Taylor Pelletier of Mountain Valley won by clearing 5’6”. Gabriele also placed third in the 400-meter dash race sprinting across the finish line in 58.79 seconds.

Haiden Dunning placed second in two events, the shot put, 35’10” and javelin 105’. He finished third in discus with his throw measuring 89-feet even.

Three Wolverines placed in the 100-meter dash. Khalique took second in 12.5 seconds; Loyola was fourth, 12.65 and Gabriele sixth, 13.26.

Loyola added some team points by placing fifth in the long jump, 16’75”.

In the distance races, Nate Gilliam was fifth in the 3,200, 13.04 and Chance Blagdon, sixth in the 800, 2:48.

Wiscasset placed third in the 4x100 relay race.

Coach Josiah Winchenbach and the WMHS Wolverines will host their final home meet of the MVC season on Tuesday, May 14 at 3:45 p.m.