Lincoln Academy track athletes Nikki Leeman, 18, and Jian Giglia, 17, traveled to Atlantic City, N.J., to compete in their first official marathon recently. The athletes paced themselves in the 26.2 miles race and finished together in four hours, six minutes.

For the third straight year, both the boys’ and girls’ cross country teams at Medomak Valley High School have qualified for the State Class B championship race. Medomak girls placed fifth and the boys sixth at the East B Regionals held in Belfast Oct. 31.

Admission to Medomak Valley High School basketball games will be $3 for adults, $2 for students, and free for children under 12. Season passes are $27 for an adult, and $72 for a family.

Lincoln Academy runners Mary Leeman and Gary Ward placed in the top 20 at the West Class B Regional Cross Country championships on Oct. 31 in Cumberland to qualify for the State Class B meet to be held on Sat., Nov. 7 at Twin Brook in Cumberland. Race times for Class B are 12:15 p.m. and 1 p.m.

A six-week basketball clinic in Bristol wrapped up Nov. 3 with an intersquad scrimmage. A special highlight of the evening for the young players was donning Lincoln Academy jerseys.

Boothbay boys’ cross-country team placed third in the West Class C Regionals in Cumberland on Saturday to qualify for the State Class C meet. Orono won the Regional title and Bangor Christian was second.

Third seed Old Town defeated sixth seed Medomak Valley girls’ soccer team on Tuesday 2-1 in an exciting East B quarterfinal match-up in Old Town.

The Midcoast Sports Hall of Fame will hold its third annual induction ceremony and banquet on Saturday night, Oct. 17 at the Rockland Elks Lodge.

Parents may sign up boys and girls K-6th graders for the upcoming basketball program at the Jefferson Village School Gym on Fri., Nov. 6, from 7-8 p.m.

Wiscasset girls’ soccer team picked up their second win of the season Monday at Monmouth.

Alli Preble scored the game’s only goal on a pass from Haley Grant. Grant took the ball down the wing and passed through to Preble, who found net from a shot at the 18-yard mark.

Monmouth held a 13-12 advantage in shots. Abbie Austin made nine saves in net for the Lady Redskins to ear the shutout.

The University of Maine at Farmington men’s and women’s golf team recently completed its 2009 season with a third-place finish at the North Atlantic Conference Championships at Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono on Oct. 12.

Medomak boys’ and girls’ cross country teams ran to victory at the Camden Hills Invitational on Oct. 9. The boys placed five scoring runners in the top 11 and the girls five in the top seven.

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The first annual Pumpkinfest Fun Run had only nine participants, but they came in spirit, dressed in orange shirts, orange hats, faces painted and one, Tammy Schiavi, came dressed in costume.