During the previous four Class A outdoor track state championships, the Bangor High School boys track team amassed a total of 20 points.

The Rams, led by a dedicated senior class, put together their strongest showing in several years by finishing fourth with 52 points at Saturday s championship meet at Lewiston High School.

The Scarborough boys captured their third state A title in four years by amassing 110 points to outdistance defending co-champion Thornton Academy of Saco (98).

Lewiston was third with 65 points and Brunswick and Mt. Ararat of Topsham shared fifth place with 46 points apiece. Rounding out the top 10 in the 23-team field were Falmouth (45), Cheverus of Portland (26), South Portland (21) and Biddeford (20).

The Bangor girls also had one of their best showings in recent years, earning 30 points to finish seventh. The Bangor girls were 16th in 2018.

I was very proud of all of our kids,” Bangor track coach Alan Mosca said. They competed hard and had each other s backs.”

The Cheverus girls made it three state titles in a row as they piled up 100 points, 29 more than second-place Gorham. Thornton Academy was third with 68.5 points and completing the top 10 were Scarborough (54), Falmouth (40), South Portland (35), Bangor (30), Edward Little High of Auburn and Lewiston (23), and a 10th-place tie between Marshwood of South Berwick and Hampden Academy (22).

Mosca said the seniors on his boys team have played a major role in the program s resurgence. They were freshmen in 2016 when the team didn t earn a single point at states.

They have worked so hard and done an unbelievable job as leaders. This was a great way for them to finish up,” Mosca said.

And this will be a springboard for our young kids going ahead. A big thanks to the seniors for building the confidence of our younger kids,” he added.

Leading the way for the Rams were senior Landyn Francis and sophomore Andrew Munroe, who each earned points in four events.

Francis, one of the captains, was second in the 100 and fifth in the 200, while Munroe was second in the 200 and fifth in the 110 hurdles. They teamed up with Cole Jordan and Lasse Keim to win the 4×100 relay in 43.66 and were on the seventh-place 4×400 relay with Keim and freshman Daniel McCarthy.

Sophomore Ryker Brown took second in the discus and third in the shot put.

Bangor s 4×800 relay of Dwight Knightly, Gordon Doore, James Fahey and McCarthy took sixth.

Junior Jarett Flaker paced Scarborough to the title by figuring in four first-place finishes.

He won the 100 (10.92), 200 (22.49) and the 400 (49.64) and ran a leg for the triumphant 4×400 relay along with Jayden Flaker, Warren O Shea and Noah Drapeau.

Scarborough also earned individual firsts in the long jump with Ben Hatch (21 feet, 7.25 inches) and the high jump with Anthony Clavette (6 feet, 6 inches) and the Red Storm picked up another relay win in the 4×800 (8:39.51) with Harrison Osborne, Zachary Barry, Tristram Coffin and Noah Drapeau.

The other multiple-event winners were Thornton Academy s Travis Snyder in the 110 hurdles (15.15), the 300 hurdles (40.70) and the pole vault (16-9 1/4), teammate Jason Montano in the shot put (59-7 3/4) and discus (164 feet) and Mt. Ararat of Topsham s Lisandro Berry-Gaviria in the 1,600 (4:22.22) and 3,200 (9:35.17).

Snyder shattered the pole vault record by 9 1/4 inches.

Also claiming wins were Thornton s Lucas Judice in the 1,600 racewalk (7:27.66), Westbrook s Mahammed Sharif (800, 1:54.53) as he edged out defending champ Wyatt Lord of Hampden Academy (1:54.66), Lewiston s Kamundela Crispin (triple jump, 44-5) and Mt. Ararat s Max Spelke (javelin, 170-4).

In the girls meet, sophomores Alyssa Elliott and Naomi Noack guided Bangor to its seventh-place finish.

Elliott picked up the Rams only individual win in the long jump (17-6) and was fourth in the triple jump. Noack and senior Sofia Wittman were part of a three-way tie for second in the pole vault (9-6) and Noack ran a leg for the seventh-place relay team composed of Mackenzie Lambert, Hannah Dunn and Celia de Diego Garcia.

Freshman Camden Lavoie was fifth in the shot put.

Alyssa tweaked her ankle early in the competition but she toughed it out today,” Mosca said.

Sophomore Victoria Bossong was the catalyst behind Cheverus run to the title as she won the 100 (12.31), 200 (state-record 24.8) and the 400 (55.54) and also ran a leg for the winning 4×400 relay team with Emma Gallant, Rosie Train and Evelyn Hanley.

Falmouth s Sofie Matson broke the record in the 3,200 in 10:33.05, nearly 10 seconds faster than Abbey Leonardi of Kennebunk s previous record of 10:42.32. Matson also won the 1,600 (4:59.29).

Hampden Academy junior Helen Shearer was second in the 1,600 and fourth in the 3,200.

The other individual winners were Scarborough s Emily Labbe (100 hurdles, 15.8) and Anna Gardner (pole vault, 10-0), Hampden Academy s Moxie Flanagan (1,600 race walk, 7:53.33), Massabesic s Syeira New (300 hurdles, 45.50) and Thornton s Mia-Claire Kezal (800, 2:18.82).

Also, Westbrook s Nyagoa Bayak (high jump, 5-8), Emma White of Cheverus (triple jump, 37-10), Sanford s Julia Allen (javelin, 118-3), Lewiston s Benedict Citenga (shot put, 37-8 3/4) and Falmouth s Emma Harrington (discus, 125-4).

Bonny Eagle of Buxton won the 4×800 relay behind Emma Abbott, Amelia Alexander, Ami Beaumier and Hannah Stevens (9:58.74) and the Gorham quartet of Maddie Michaud, Nevaeh Moore, Emma Green and Sydney Connolly triumphed in the 4×100 relay (50.20).