Georgia Bolduc and Sasha Letourneau put on quite a show at a five-team meet at Skowhegan last week.

Of course, that’s nothing new for the two friends and rivals who’ve run nothing but close races against each other over the years.

Bolduc, a junior at Waterville, edged Letourneau, a senior at Lawrence, in two races that were decided by two one-hundredths of a second or less.

“It’s quite an intense rivalry,” Waterville coach Ian Wilson said. “They both push each other and they are so competitive.”

Added Lawrence coach Tim Alberts: “They have been going at it for the last couple of years. It’s been really good to watch, although the results are sometimes hard to swallow.”

Bolduc ran the 200-meter dash in 27.28 seconds. Letourneau was second in 27.30.

The 100 was closer.

Bolduc won it with a time of 12.94. Letourneau was second in 12.95 seconds.

“It’s interesting because they run different styles,” Wilson said. “Georgia is just quick out of the blocks and Sasha is a little bit slower to get rolling. But once she gets up to speed she just flies. Georgia opened up quick leads but Sasha came after her like a freight train. If they were five more meters, I don’t know who would’ve won.”

The two will square off one more time this spring — May 18 in Skowhegan at the annual Community Cup.

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Madison senior Matt McClintock expects to run and run a lot at most meets this season.

In all, he’ll run up to 6,400 meters — a 3,200, 1,600, 800 and a leg on the 4×800 relay — at meets this spring.

“It’s good,” said McClintock, who will run at Purdue University next fall. “It will be good because when I get to all the big meets later this season, I’ll just be doing one event, so it will seem easy.”

Madison coach Bob Hagopian said McClintock is running a few 800s at meets to help him gain some speed.

“I want him to get faster, which is why I have him in there in the 800,” he said. “The kid wants to win all the time, which is good, but we need to do the speed work. You need the endurance and the speed.”

McClintock also hopes to break the school record in the 800. He’s about five seconds away from accomplishing that.

He already owns the school records in the 1,600 and 3,200.

“I have two distance records and that last one is the one I want,” McClintock said.

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For the first time in his 24 years as Lawrence girls coach, Alberts said he will need strategize come the championship meets.

“It will be the first time that I will have to sit down going into a conference meet and say, ‘OK, where do I want to put these kids?’ ” he said. “It’s kind of exciting.”

The Lawrence girls are opening a lot of eyes in the early going. Erzsie Nagy has posted some of the fastest times in KVAC A in three events — the 800, 1,600 and 3,200. And, the 4×800 relay team features the fastest time in the state at 9:55.82.

“We just want to get the kids in the right positions,” Alberts said.

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The Erskine track and field teams received quite a surprise when it showed up at Brunswick last Thursday for what it thought was a three-team meet featuring Oceanside and Brunswick.

“We got there, and all of a sudden we were like, ‘there’s another team here,'” Erskine coach Ben Willoughby said.

The other team was Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A contender Bangor.

“We had to quickly change some things around to try and maximize our points,” Willoughby added.

The Eagles still turned in a strong meet — the girls finished second while the boys came in fourth.

Bridget Humphrey scored in three events to lead the way. She won the shot put with a throw of 29-8. She then finished second in the javelin and fourth in the 300 hurdles.

Freshman Kyra Nerrithew also made an impression, winning the discus (81-1) in her first meet. Grace Killian won the javelin with a throw of 86-9.

“We had some pretty good performances,” Willoughby said.

Bill Stewart — 621-5640

bstewart@centralmaine.com

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