GORHAM – Lewiston’s Toby Crispin and Edward Little’s Danielle Paul have been close all season.

Heck, they even went to kindergarten together, so they’ve really been close for most of their lives.

In previous meets this season, Paul had the step on Crispin, usually by less than a second, in the mile. Crispin turned the tables on her friend at the Class A state meet Monday, and in a big way.

Crispin set a new personal best and team record by nearly 13 seconds in the mile, edging favorite Vicky Hewey of Sanford by less than one second and Paul by just more than two to earn the victory.

“I don’t know where that came from,” Crispin said. “Everyone was telling me this track was faster, so I wanted to go faster. I didn’t know what time I was running at, but I knew I was pretty close (to the leader). I was so close, I just decided to go.”

“It’s been great, the kind of competition we have,” Paul said. “It adds more to it, racing against her every week.”

Crispin was one of two Lewiston winners on the day. Mohamed Noor rebounded from a difficult mile, in which he placed a distant second to Bangor’s Riley Masters, to upend Masters in the two-mile by more than 10 seconds.

“The mile was a tough race, because his pace was fast,” Noor said. “In the two-mile, I saved my energy, and picked it up in the last four laps.”

Noor’s teammates Matt Driscoll and Sadam Abdi helped, too, each taking turns setting a fast pace early, which tired Masters, who was on his third distance race of the day.

Edward Little’s girls didn’t fair too badly, either. Paul earned a third-place finish in the mile, Muriel Schwinn collected a second-place finish in the long jump and a fifth in the 55-meter dash, and Emily Dodge took second in the triple jump, third in the 55-meter hurdles and fifth in the long jump. The Eddies finished a respectable fourth out of 21 scoring teams with 34 team points.

“Unfortunately, a big meet like this becomes more individual, and that puts a little bit of pressure on you, but you have to rise to the challenge,” Dodge said.

Scarborough took the girls’ crown with 91 points, 20 better than second-place Brunswick. Gorham placed third with 50, followed by EL (34) and Messalonskee (30).

All of Messalonskee’s points came from Jesse Labreck, who capped a record-setting day of with three of her own- in the high jump (5 feet, 6 inches), triple jump (38 feet, 4 inches) and 55-meter hurdles (8.25 seconds).

“(The high jump) is probably the one I wanted to most, because I didn’t already have it,” Labreck said. “I was really close last year. (In the 55-meter hurdles), I was going to a 5.1, but I hit a hurdle in my final, so I didn’t get that, but other than that, I’m pretty happy.”

Brunswick won the boys’ meet handily, outdistancing No. 2 Scarborough 81-45. Peter Slovenski put on a show in the final event of the day, stretching his state record in the pole vault to 16 feet, 2 inches. He held the previous record, set last year, at 14 feet, 7 inches.

Edward Little’s Buddy Foss was his team’s bright spot Monday, earning a fourth-place finish in the 200-meter dash.

Thornton Academy, Gorham and Deering rounded out the top five on the boys’ side. Lewiston finished eighth with 22 points, 18 of which came from Noor’s finishes in the mile and two-mile.

Breakout for track, if you want it

Top 5 boys teams

1. Brunswick

2. Scarborough

3. Thornton Academy

4. Gorham

5. Deering

Top 5 girls teams

1. Scarborough

2. Brunswick

3. Gorham

4. Edward Little

5. Messalonskee