The Camden Hills High School girls swim team from Rockport captured the state Class B championship at Bowdoin College earlier this week.
It was the third state championship in four years for the Camden Hills girls. The first two were in Class A in 2022 and ‘23.
Morse High School of Bath’s boys team claimed its first ever state title in Class B, although it did have a state crown in Class A back in 2006.
In Class A action at the Husson University pool in Bangor, it was the Falmouth boys and the combined team of Deering and Portland girls who annexed state titles.
It was Falmouth’s first state title since it won five in a row in Class B from 1980-84.
The Deering-Portland girls defended their state title.
The Camden Hills Windjammers snapped Cape Elizabeth’s string of six B titles in a row.
The Windjammers tallied 437 points, which were 74 more than runner-up Cape Elizabeth. Mount Desert Island was third with 263 points and rounding out the top 10 were Ellsworth and Greely of Cumberland (144 apiece), Gardiner/Hall-Dale (138), Morse (115), Northern Penobscot comprised of swimmers from Old Town, Orono and Foxcroft Academy (102) and Waynflete of Portland (82).
John Bapst-Hermon was 11th (80), Belfast was 13th (42) and George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill was 15th with 36 points.
The Camden Hills girls won two of the three relays and finished second to Cape Elizabeth in the other.
Camden’s London Nicolet, Adella Brainerd, Sally Vannini and Marguerite Worner teamed up to win the 200-yard medley relay and Flynn Layton, Rana Abess, Worner and Vannini triumphed in the 400 freestyle relay.
Avery Weeks and Py Nakjaroen combined with Brainerd and Layton to earn a second-place finish in the 200 freestyle relay.
Vannini won the 50 freestyle and Layton captured the 100 freestyle.
Ellsworth’s Ella Montgomery won the 100 butterfly and the 100 backstroke and teammate Ann-Katherine Burns won the 100 breaststroke.
Montgomery was named the Swimmer of the Meet.
Stephanie Gualtieri from John Bapst-Hermon won the 1-meter diving.
Cape Elizabeth’s Hope Taylor won the 200 and 500 freestyle events.
In the Class B boys meet, Morse registered 424.5 points to outdistance Greely (299.5) and Ellsworth (283). Cape Elizabeth (271.5) and Mount Desert Island (192.5) rounded out the top five. Belfast (138) was sixth followed by Yarmouth (129), Northern Penobscot (110), Camden Hills (94) and Waterville-Winslow (91).
John Bapst-Hermon (39) wound up 13th.
Pacing Morse were double-winners Sawyer Wright (100 free, 200 free) and Gaffney McDonough (50 free, 100 butterfly).
MDI’s Patrick Saltysiak won the 100 backstroke.
In the Class A boys meet, Falmouth registered 244 points to edge out Edward Little-Leavitt-Poland-Lewiston by 17.5 points.
Scarborough was third with 198 points followed by Mt. Ararat-Brunswick (174), South Portland (167.5), Thornton Academy (157.5), Bangor (156), Windham (144), Deering-Portland (131) and Cony of Augusta (120). Brewer-Hampden Academy finished 18th with 10 points.
Carter Verlee, who won the 200 freestyle, and Malcolm Sprague, who triumphed in the 50 freestyle, paced Falmouth.
Mt. Ararat-Brunswick’s Joshua Langworthy was the only swimmer to win two individual events as he won the 100 backstroke and 200 individual medley.
In the A girls meet, Deering-Portland tallied 285 points to win by 29 points over Falmouth. Mount Ararat-Brunswick was third with 209 points followed by Thornton Academy (200), Gorham (174), Edward Little-Leavitt-Poland-Lewiston (138), Messalonskee-Skowhegan-Nokomis-Lawrence (136), South Portland (128), Cony (127) and Brewer-Hampden Academy (103).
Bangor finished 15th with 59 points.
There were four swimmers who each won two individual events including two from the same team.
Thornton Academy’s Lucy Perry won the 100 breaststroke and 200 freestyle and teammate Kenzie Shields won the 200 individual medley and 500 freestyle.
Gabby Roy from the Edward Little-Leavitt-Poland-Lewiston team captured the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly, and Mt. Ararat-Brunswick’s Layla Hammer claimed the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke.
