Completing an arduous season of intense competition, the Boothbay Region High School Seahawk mathematics team held off stiff competition from several other schools to claim second place for the entire September-to-March regular season in the small school division of the 24-school Central Maine Math League. When all the scores had been tabulated for the final meet at Cony High School in Augusta on Wednesday, March 9, the top five schools were Kents Hill—1047 points, Boothbay Region—607 points, Hall-Dale—560 points, Carrabec—479 points, and Monmouth—424 points.

In addition to receiving the secondplace trophy, Boothbay sophomore Connor Demmons was awarded an individual trophy for achieving the fifth best score for the year among all of the 1,800 sophomores in Central Maine.

The icing on the cake, however, may have been the presentation of the championship team traveling trophy, which is awarded each year to the number one team. The trophy has plaques for each annual winner and when all slots are full after 12 years, the trophy is given to the school that finished first the most times. The trophy reached its 12-year maturity this year. Since the Seahawks were the number one school six times to Kents Hill’s four championships and one each for Georges Valley and Hall-Dale, the trophy was awarded to Boothbay for keeps. It was hung high on the wall in Mr. Powell’s classroom at BRHS last Thursday, where it will remain permanently.

Boothbay’s team at the final meet included freshmen, Loren Genrich and Gabbie Boord; sophomores, Max Hoecker, Conner Demmons and Kyle Alley; juniors, Griffin Kane and Noah Sherburne; and seniors, Marinel Demmons, Gretchen Elder, Morgen Wilson and Lisa Pawlowski.

Other students who have represented the school in competition during the regular season include Faith Blethen, Sam Betts, Kate Friant, Angelique Perkins and Angela Machon.

Mathematics competitions during the regular season involve 25 subjects from pre-calculus math, including arithmetic, statistics, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, number theory, areas and volumes, conics, factoring, inequalities, the binomial theorem, sequences and series, functions, logarithms, probability, and complex numbers. Each meet has five individual rounds of questions and one team round. The school’s score for a meet is composed of the students’ individual scores and the team round score.

The team next heads to the Mountain Valley Conference Championship meet at Carrabec High School on March 23 and the Maine State Math Meet at the Augusta Civic Center on April 5. Coaches Peter and Nancy Gilchrist have considerable hopes and confidence the team can achieve significant results at both meets.