Miss Maine Field Hockey, the starting point guard on the Class C state championship basketball team … but Brittany Veazie’s extracurricular activities aren’t only centered on sports.

Dexter High senior Veazie recently gained the lead in the school’s production of the musical “Carousel.” She’ll play the role of Julie Jordan, a New England mill girl who is involved in a tragic love story.

Veazie was the lead in “Oklahoma” last year and had parts in “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Annie” in past years.

“It’s a lot of fun,” she said. “I have a lot of fun doing it.”

There aren’t any tryouts for the play because there aren’t enough Dexter students interested so there’s not a lot of competition for the roles, Veazie explained.

Her aunt, DeeDee Kililea, the school’s health and chorus teacher, organizes the plays every year. She also assigns the roles.

There’s plenty of singing and dancing in the show.

“My mom and my aunt think I [sing] well but I hate to have to listen to myself on a tape or anything,” she said.

Practices started during February vacation but Veazie wasn’t able to make many of them. She was a little busy helping the Tigers win an Eastern Maine basketball title that week.

Basketball teammates Sabrina Cote and Vanessa Hartford are also in the play.

“I know it’s busy,” Veazie said. “I’m going all year with school and sports.”

The play will be put on at the end of March.

Cross country title awarded

The Maine Principals’ Association has awarded the 2003 boys Class A state cross country championship to Deering High of Portland, several months after the title was taken away from Scarborough because the Red Storm admitted it used an ineligible runner.

Bonny Eagle of Standish was also named the runner-up at a meeting of the MPA’s interscholastic management committee.

The Red Storm, which won the Nov. 1 meet in a tiebreaker with Deering, entered a runner who formerly attended Deering and continued to live in Portland while competing for Scarborough. The student was therefore ineligible.

Scarborough self-reported the violation.

The MPA’s interscholastic management committee discussed the issue in November ruled that the team would have to forfeit all events in which the student participated, including the regional and state meets.

The MPA planned to rescore the meet.

Scarborough and Deering both scored 118 points, but the Red Storm won the tiebreaker, which is based on the finish of a team’s sixth runner.

Scarborough’s sixth-place runner was 45th, Deering’s was 63rd.

The runner-up title was also in question as the Scots and Edward Little of Auburn each had 120 points, but Bonny Ealge earned third as their sixth-place runner placed ahead of the Red Eddies’ sixth-place runner.

UMaine summit set

More than 200 high school and middle school students, coaches and administrators from all over the state will be at the University of Maine campus in Orono today for the Maine Sports Summit.

The summit starts at 9:30 a.m. and wraps up at about 2:30.

Among the attendees expected to participate throughout the day are Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson, UMaine coaches Tim Whitehead (men’s hockey), Jack Cosgrove (football), Terry Kix (field hockey) and Scott Atherley (women’s soccer), and Maine Principals’ Association executive director Dick Durost.

John Jenkins, the national director of Inspired 2 B GREAT! and owner of peptalk.com will give the keynote address.

The summit is sponsored by UMaine’s Coaching Maine Youth to Success initiative, a federally funded project to develop a national model for sports programs that complement learning standards and overall school objectives.

The results of the summit will be used to advise the a panel of educators, coaches, athletic directors and administrators which has been meeting regularly since October to identify major themes and concepts in order to shape the national model.

Some of those issues include sportsmanship, academics, opportunity to play, quality of coaching, the role of parents, and health and fitness.

Jessica Bloch can be reached at 990-8193, 1-800-310-8600 or jbloch@bangordailynews.net.