LISBON

For years now, Hall-Dale, Mountain Valley, Boothbay and others have been chasing the Lisbon High School boys track and field team in the Mountain Valley Conference.

With Thursday’s MVC Championships now in the books, they’ll have to keep at it.

The Greyhounds narrowly edged Hall-Dale with a total of 119 points to win their 12th straight boys MVC crown on their home track. The Bulldogs took second at 105 points, with Mountain Valley (85) placing third and Boothbay (77) fourth.

Wiscasset managed sixth place at 47 and Richmond took 13th with four points.

“Each year you start the season saying ‘What does it take to get a championship?’” Lisbon coach Dean Hall said. “You have to take the kids step-by-step in the whole process. How do we get there? You have to move kids around, accommodate, and you have to kind of predict what other teams are going to do. We had to go against a very tough Mountain Valley and Hall-Dale team. Some of them had real studs. We had kids that worked hard.”

Michael Schlotterbeck found the top of the podium early for the Lisbon boys, finishing first in the 1,600-meter race walk, but much of the Greyhounds point total was accumulated with top-five finishes. Kurtis Bolton headlined in many spots, finishing second in both the 400 and pole vault events, while anchoring another second place finish in the 4×100 relay. Joe Fusaro took fourth in the 110 hurdles and Kyle LaRoche finished just behind Bolton for third in the 400.

David Schlotterbeck nabbed third in the 3,200 run and Ben Blake placed fifth in the high jump.

“I was impressed with David and Michael Schlotterbeck,” Hall said. “I was impressed with Kurtis Bolton, he a first in the4x400team,secondinthe pole vault, second in the 400. It was just a plethora of people that came together.”

Lisbon’s success can be explained throughout the entire squad.

“We stayed warm, kept our warm-ups on, stayed stretch,” said Lisbon’s Daniel Bolton, who placed 12th in the 110 hurdles. “Really just stayed on task. We’ve had 12 years in a row, really want to keep that streak going.”

Kurtis Bolton, Bryant Hall, Dylan George and Morgan Peron closed out the day with a win in the 4×400 relay.

On the girls side, Lisbon came up short to Monmouth Academy, which won its second MVC title in the past three seasons with 164.50 points. The Greyhounds came in at 99, Winthrop at 73 and Wiscasset at 62 in fourth place. Richmond finished ninth with 28 points.

Sydney Douglass, awarded co-athlete of the meet on the girls side, led the way for Lisbon, finishing first in the 800 and 1,600 race-walk. She also anchored the third-place 4×400 relay squad.

“I’m amazed,” Douglass said of her 2:44.05 winning time in the 800. “I was obviously trying to get a faster time, I was aiming for 2:40, but I just really wanted to get what I was seeded, which was first.”

Douglass fell behind in the pack early, but never wavered and waited for her chance to move up.

“When you fall behind, yeah, it’s bad, but you still want to gain everything back,” Douglass said. “It saves everything for you. If you know in your head you didn’t do your best, you just have to give it your all to place what you want.”

Chase Collier found the podium with a pair of top-three finishes in the 100- and 300-hurdle races, and also placed fifth in the girls long jump. Alika McMurrin took first in the shot put and Kaylin Le finished second in the pole vault.

Wiscasset and Richmond

Wiscasset’s day was full of pleasant surprises, starting with Brandon Goud hitting two personal-best times in the 1,600 run (4:46.62) and 3,200 run (10:17.38) to bring home a pair of first-place finishes.

“I broke my PR, so I’m pretty happy,” Goud said of the 1,600 race. “Today was looking to go out and have a good race — get the best possible time that I could because it’s my last high school meet.”

“Very proud,” Wiscasset coach Josiah Winchenbach said of Goud’s effort. “He was going to go out today and just try to come in first place. He said he was going to just kind of push the first-place runner and take him in the end and that’s what he did. He was not expecting a PR today and we’re very happy for him.”

Ayanna Stover was very active for the Wolverines on the girls side, finishing first in the triple jump, second in the 100 hurdles and fourth in the 300 hurdles. She also teamed up with Gabby Chapman, Vanessa Dunn and Grace Webber tow in the 4×100 relay.

“She’s developed a lot this year,” Winchenbach said. “She wasn’t really expecting much today, she hasn’t been jumping her best, but today she kind of pulled it out. The win for the 4 x 100 relay, key in that race.”

Webber also won the long jump and took second in the 200, while Matthew Chapman placed second in the 300 hurdles and Ethan James made the podium with a seventh-place finish in the boys javelin throw.

Destiny Anair made the most noise for Richmond, finishing just behind Douglass in the 800 and again grabbing second in the 1,600 with a personal best time of 5:55.57.

“I never know when to start my kick, so it’s kind of hard to determine that,” Anair said of the run. “Some girls start later, like the girl that was ahead of me (Kaitlyn Hunt of Monmouth), she started over here and I started way over at the 200, so that’s always hard.”

Anair, who also finished third just behind Le in the 800 and third in the 3,200, was gunning for more.

“I was seeded for second, that’s where I was supposed to be,” she said. “I was hoping to try and push that a little bit, but I’m happy with where I was.”

Isaac Rideout narrowly missed the podium with an eighth-place finish in the boys pole vault, while the Bobcats’ 4 x 400 relay teams finished seventh (girls) and eighth, respectively.