The Boothbay Region High School Nordic skiing team was unable to create some elbow room in the tightly-contested and massive Sassi Memorial Classical Race at Black Mountain Ski Resort. The Seahawks boys had to compete with 237 skiers while the girls race featured 215 skiers.

Holding the top spot for the Seahawks was Sophia Thayer, who completed the course in 21 minutes and 27.1 seconds which was good enough for 64th place. Behind Thayer was Arden McSwain (24:28) who was 125th, Maya Schwehm (26:12.6) was 153rd, Shaylee Sibley (27:33.6) was 176th and Angela Machon (30:59.7) was 202nd.

Robert Campbell again led the boys squad with a time of 19:02.1 and a 96th-place finish.

Kyler Carty (20:13.9) was 125th, Alex Owen (20:42.9) was 139th, Dan Murray (20:48.5) was 141st and Zach Vise (22:55.9) was 186th.

Raymond Perry (23:16.6) was 192nd, Kade Smith (23:33) was 197th, Brady Duncan (23:42.2) was 199th, Jack Hasch (23:59.6) was 205th, Caleb Colby (26:51) was 222nd and Phil Owen (27:15.7) was 224th to round out the Boothbay slate of skiers.

Fryburg's Silas Eastman would go on to win the boys race with a time of 14 minutes even. Second-place finisher Daniel Streinz of Katahdin finished in 14:27.4. Hannah Streinz would also finish in second place, albeit on the girls side, with a time of 17:41.4. Gould Academy's Sadie James won the girls race in 16 minutes 20.9 seconds.

Ben Bulkeley can be reached at 207-633-4620 or bbulkeley@boothbayregister.com. Follow him on Twitter: @BBRegisterBen.