FORT KENT — The Mt. Blue girls team from Farmington easily won the Class A high school skiing championship here Friday while the host Fort Kent boys took their overall title by one point over Edward Little of Auburn, 204-205.

The Fort Kent girls finished second overall with 254 points to Mt. Blue’s 125, and the Oxford Hills girls took third with 278 points.

The Oxford Hills boys from South Paris took third with 277 points in the meet that was held in two days instead of three.

Julie Toussaint of Fort Kent was the best overall female skier. She was second and third in traditional and freestyle cross country, eighth in the slalom and 16th in giant slalom for a total of 29 points.

Edward Little’s Jody Larue was the boys’ skimeister with 53 points. He was 10th in freestyle cross country and slalom, 12th in giant slalom and 21st in traditional cross country.

Individual boys event champions were:

Mt. Blue in traditional cross country with 40 points followed closely by Oxford Hills with 44 and Fort Kent with 66 for third palce.

Edward Little in the giant slalom with 19 points, Fort Kent second with 57 and Mountain Valley in third with 70.

Fort Kent in freestyle cross country with 35 points followed by Mt. Blue with 54 and Oxford Hills with 67.

Edward Little in slalom with 27 points, Fort Kent second with 47 points and Oxford Hills third with 76.

For the girls, Mountain Valley and Oxford Hills tied for first in traditional cross country with 25 points and Fort Kent took third with 54 points.

Edward Little girls won the giant slalom with 37 points, Mt. Blue was second with 42 points and Mountain Valley was third with 43 points.

In freestyle cross country, Oxford Hills and Mt. Blue girls tied for first place with 26 points and Fort Kent was third with 50 points.

In the slalom, Mt. Blue girls were first with 32 points, Edward Little was second with 33 points and Mountain Valley was third with 48 points.

A winter storm that dropped more than a foot of snow started early Thursday as more than 150 skiers from Maine’s Class A schools prepared to take to the slopes.

That did not deter the young skiers. “It was great,” said Edward Little’s Heidi Kendall following her second giant slalom run. Visibility, a maximum of 200 feet, was at its worst for Kendall.

Friday’s weather was the flip side. The sun shown, but the temperature hovered around 5 above zero, and the slopes and trails were whipped by a biting wind. One girl coming of the 5.2-kilometer cross country course said she nearly froze.

Host Alpine coach Greg Voisine said this kind of ski meet can be like “the flip of a coin.” He said the trails at Lonesome Pine Trails were in excellent condition with a good hard base. Thursday’s fresh snow made the runs more solid, he said.

Voisine said at the outset that Mt. Blue, Oxford Hills and Edward Little are perennial powerhouses in Class A skiing.

“It’s hard to tell what our (Fort Kent) team will do because we don’t ski against these southern Maine teams during the year. We run up against a lot of people we don’t know,” said Voisine.

Michael Case, the Alpine coach at Edward Little, said his team was doing real good. “We are looking pretty good. People at Fort Kent worked real hard despite the weather and despite having to make this a two-day instead of a three-day meet.” he said. “They’ve had to scramble.”

Larry Todd, the Alpine coach at Oxford Hills, said he expected “all skiers to be competitive, fast. They need to stand up,” he said. He said his team was “looking good and they were consistent in the early runs.” He said his boys Alpine team has been strong all year.