GORHAM – The Scarborough girls’ 800-meter relay squad put an emphatic stamp on a solid performance Monday as the Red Storm captured its fifth consecutive title at the Maine Class A Indoor Track Championship.

Scarborough’s 77 points held off Edward Little, which scored 56.5 points. The Scarborough boys also won, defeating Brunswick by a 56-48 margin. The Edward Little boys finished in eighth place with 29 points.

With only one runner (Lauren Blaisdell) returning from the defending champion relay team, the Red Storm entered a foursome that coach Ron Kelly had high hopes for.

“I knew I had a group of girls that could break the record,” said Kelly. “We’re faster than we were last year.”

The group of Nicole Kirk, Jenna Van Dam, Rachelle Greene and Blaisdell dusted the field and set the new state mark with a time of 1:48.71. Blaisdell was one of three individual winners for the Red Storm. Her surprising leap of 17-feet, 2-inches took the top spot in the long jump. Catie Funk won the shot put (39-10) while Whitney Chamberlain stood at the top of the podium following the 800 run (2:19.33).

Despite Emily Dodge’s personal best in the long jump (16-11) and a solid leap by Muriel Schwinn, the EL duo lost their 1-2 pre-race seedings by finishing third and fourth, respectively.

“We got some really great jumps,” said Dodge. “We were happy with them, but you can’t control what the other girls do.”

Dodge rebounded to capture a pair of first-place finishes, setting school records in the 55 hurdles (8.68 seconds) and the triple jump (36-11). For Dodge and teammates Chyla Hoitt (fourth) and Ashten Hackett (seventh), the hurdles race came shortly after the long jump.

“I’ve been frustrated all season not being able to get under nine seconds,” said Dodge. “Today I ran 8.68 with was fantastic.”

The effort by the hurdlers put the Red Eddies back in the hunt for the team title, but they could never gain the lead. A second in the 800 by Danielle Paul and a runner-up finish by Ashten Hackett in the triple jump were other highlights for EL.

“I’m really proud of them,” said EL coach Rebecca Hefty. “The fact that this team can come in and be runners-up is an accomplishment.”

Multiple winners on the girls’ side were Cheverus freshman Fiona Hendry in the mile (5:10.99) and 2-mile (11:40.34) runs along with Brunswick sprinter Kristin Slotnick in the 55 (7.27), 200 (26.38) and 400 (58.8) dashes. Other local girls scoring included Lewiston’s Toby Crispen who finished fourth in both the mile and 2-mile runs along with teammate Lea Morin who placed fourth in the 200 and sixth in the 55-meter dash.

The Red Storm boys battled Brunswick and Bonny Eagle throughout the day before emerging victorious. They managed only two individual wins (Brad Nakanishi in the pole vault and Sam Chick in the 800), with their depth being the difference.

Top local finishers for EL were Josh Clark’s second-place finish in the pole vault (13-6) while teammates Jacob Dubois and Buddy Foss turned in a pair of third-place efforts, Dubois in the shot put (49-2) and Foss in the 200 (23.65). Nakanishi had recently been ill and needed a successful third vault in an early round to stay in the event.

Clark wasn’t pleased with the height he cleared Monday, but he kept the result in perspective.

“It was good, but not the best,” he said. “Everybody has their day. My legs felt fine, but it was my mind that was getting clouded. It’s a state meet and there are a lot of distractions.”

Lewiston’s Matt Driscoll was the top seed in the two-mile and led for the first half of the race before fading and finishing a disappointing 10th. Brunswick’s Wil Geoghegan took advantage and won going away in a time of 9:52.49.

“He was fresh for the start of the race,” said Geoghegan of Driscoll. “I was trying to keep myself in striking distance. At just about the one-mile mark he began to fade, and I just ran my own race.”

The top scorers for the Blue Devils were a pair of fifth-place efforts by Derick Roy in the long jump and Hussein Ibrahim in the 2-mile.

Multiple winners were Bonny Eagle’s Jamie Ruginski in the 55 hurdles (7.97) along with the long (22-0) and triple (44-4) jumps and Brewer sprinter Ben Sinclair who took the top honors in the 55 (6.63) and 200 (23.19).