LISBON

Lauren Sterling of Mountain Valley woke up on her birthday — Thursday — at 4 a.m. Race days always get her excited, but her seasonlong chase of the Mountain Valley Conference 100-meter hurdle record of 15.94 was coming to an end and the MVC championships was her second-to-last chance to break it.

“On the starting line I could feel my heart in my chest,” Sterling said. “I know other people want to beat me, that’s their goal. I didn’t know how my time would be at the finish because it felt like an average race but when it clocked the time, it felt super cocky, but I couldn’t hold it in.”

Sterling ran 15.90 and broke the record. She also earned a second-place finish in the 100-meter dash and in the high jump.

Sterling’s stellar performance earned her athlete of the meet honors but was not enough to help her team take down the Monmouth girls’ team, which scored 228 points, 155 points more than second-place Lisbon.

“The expectation for the girls was to win it,” Monmouth coach Tom Menendez said. “We came in really strong and I told them last night that 100 points would win it.”

The Monmouth girls opened the meet with wins in th e4x800-meter relay and the 1,600 race/walk by Moira Burgess, and later had sisters Kaitlin and Abbie Hunt finish first and second in the 1,600 and 3,200 runs.

“It is competitive,” Kaitlin Hunt said. “But at the same time I know whoever wins I’ll be happy with it because she’s like my best friend.”

Monmouth found strength in numbers.

“We take them, we develop them, and when they’re seniors they’re scoring on the top of the podium,” Menendez said. “We have a good culture in terms of track.

Monmouth finished first and second in the 300-meter hurdles, first through fourth in the discus and javelin, and first through third in the 3,200-meter run that capped off a strong day.

Hannah St. Pierre of Spruce Mountain was victorious in the long jump (15- 10.5) and triple jump (32- 09.25).

The Greyhounds finished second with 73 points, ahead of third-place Spruce Mountain (61), fourth-place Winthrop (54) and fifth-place Wiscasset, which finished with 53 points. Richmond claimed 10 points to finish in a tie for 11th.

Lisbon’s Sydney Douglass won the 800 (2:39.49) and also was third in the pole vault (7-00) and fourth in the race/walk (8:44.66). Douglass was a member of the winning 4 x 400 relay along with teammates Makenzey Bedford, Jordan Ott and Emma Houle.

Also for the Greyhounds, Emma DiGregorio was third in the 1,600, Bedford took second in the 400, Houle was third in the 200, and Destiney Deschaines was third in the triple jump.

Wiscasset’s Ayanna Stover finished second in the 100 hurdles in a time of 16.54 and was the runner-up in the triple jump with a leap of 32-03.25. The Wolverines won the4x100relayin52.94.The foursome was Gwen Webber, Vanessa Dunn, Grace Webber and Stover. Dunn was third in the 300 hurdles and Grace Webber second in the 200.

Destiny Anair claimed fifth in the 1,600 and fourth in the 3,200 for Richmond.

Boys

On the boys’ side, Lisbon took over and held the lead from start to finish. Scoring 118.50 points, the Greyhounds beat second-place Hall-Dale by 34 to earn their 13th consecutive MVC title.

Lisbon also opened the meet with a win in the race/walk by Alan Lavoie. Head coach Dean Hall attributed his win to athletes bettering their seed times and making up points in different areas — like Adrian Blake finishing in sixth place in the 400 from the second fastest heat.

“They’re going to do what they do, or not going to do,” Hall said. “If that door closes then you got knocked out of something, so go on to your next event. But if the door opens because they may have faulted, walk in. That’s what we have been teaching since the beginning of the season. This is a baker’s dozen for the boys. I won’t know how this feels until later on when I look at the results, but I keep thinking of all the pluses we had.”

The Greyhounds claimed second and third in the race/walk as well behind Geoffrey Shambarger and Corbin Hall.

Lisbon earned two wins from David Schlotterbeck in the 1,600 and 3,200, with a second-place finish in the 800 in between. In the 800, runners were close to 100 meters into the race when a Boothbay runner fell, which forced a restart. This threw Schlotterbeck off his rhythm.

“You are always hyped up for a race so when they restart it like that, it really throws you off,” Schlotterbeck said. “I was pretty tired after the 800 so I was going for place, not really a PR (in the 3,200). So I just sat behind the fastest runner, and in the end I did get a PR by about 15 seconds (10:36.21).

Other Greyhounds finishing in the top three were Seth Leeman (third, 110 hurdles). Caleb Berube (third, 100),the4x400relaysquad (third, Morgan Perron, Lavoie, Glenn Hill, Ben Blake), Isaiah Thompson (second, shot put) and Bradley Harriman (second, pole vault).

Hall-Dale finished in second place in the boys’ team event, in part because of Matt Albert earning victories in the javelin (155-08) and in the long jump (20-02.75).

Monmouth (79), Boothbay (74) and Mountain Valley (68) finished third through fifth, respectively. Wiscasset earned eighth with 36 points.

Matthew Chapman stood out for the Wolverines, winning the 300 hurdles in 43.16, taking second in the triple jump (40-08) and finishing fourth in the long jump (19- 10).