TOPSHAM – Steve Georgetti hopped onto one foot and made sure to stay back of a fading line in the chewed up turf on Mt. Ararat’s makeshift javelin chute.

His jav sailed into the sky and stuck nicely into the ground.

“Look out, Therrien, here I come,” Giorgetti said to his coach after hearing his distance – 152 feet, 6 inches.

EL throwing coach Jon Staples then turned to Dylon Therrien, about whom Giorgetti was speaking, and told him he’d better watch out.

“Don’t let him think he can catch you now,” Staples said.

He didn’t.

Therrien launched a 156-foot, 8-inch throw moments later.

“No danger I’m getting caught,” Therrien said.

That threat from his teammate, and a mammoth heave from Lewiston’s Josh Pelletier – who won the event with a toss of 161-09 – are the only threats he’s had all season. It’s been that way for him, and for Sean Daigle, and for Jacob Dubois, in the throwing events all season.

“It’s been tough to judge this year, because the conference as a whole is down across the board in the throwing events,” EL coach Ryan Laroche said. “It’s fortunate that they all have each other to push in practice and in meets.”

The Eddies’ throwing team, which makes up about 1/3 of the 59-man team, posted a 2-3-4-5-6 finish in the javelin and a 1-2-3 finish in both the discus and shot put to lead the team to a 53-point victory over Brunswick and and 87-point edge over Lewiston in the final meet for both squads before the KVAC championship meet next weekend.

“One of the hallmarks of this team has been its balance,” Laroche said. “We have 58 kids, 19 of them run in the distance events, 20 are in sprints and 10 in throwing and field events.”

The Eddies began the season knowing their high-end throwers were solid. The supporting cast and its contributions, however, have been a surprise.

“Jon Staples has done a great job developing the kids behind the top-end talent,” Laroche said.

Meanwhile, the Edward Little girls did what they do best Friday – they dominated.

With Emily Dodge winning three of four events and placing second in another, and with the girls’ throwing team taking 12 of a possible 18 spots in the three events, Edward Little bested Mt. Ararat in the girls’ meet, 217-78.

“This whole season, ultimately we’re preparing for June 6,” EL girls’ coach Rebecca Hefty said. “We haven’t started peaking at this point.”

Danielle Paul won the 800 for EL, Abby Downs took first in the high jump, and Abby Dunn and Christie Bernier went 1-2 in the racewalk.

Kristin Slotnick of Brunswick was the other star athlete of the meet, earning first place in all three events in which she participated – the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter dashes.

Edward Little’s Merton Foss (200), Jeremy Theriault (400) and James Philbrook (high jump) were also individual winners for the Eddies, along with Keith Tremblay in the racewalk.

In the meet’s final event, against the waning sunlight, Josh Clark outdueled Brunswick’s Mike Slovenski at the pole vault pit, setting a school record of 14 feet even in earning the victory.

The rest of the KVAC, meanwhile, is still searching for a way to defeat Edward Little.

“We had kids all over the place today, trying to figure out where we could gain more points,” Lewiston coach Ray Putnam said. “We’re probably second-best in the KVAC, but we’re a solid 50 points behind Edward Little on a good day. We’re just trying to figure out if there’s anything we can do to close that gap.”

The biggest advantage the Eddies have, Putnam said, is that team of throwers.

“We’ve been even on the track with them all year, meet to meet,” Putnam said. “We have the athletes to keep up with them in the jumps, but it’s there (in the field events) we have no answer.”

The teams will participate in the KVAC meet next weekend, followed by the Class A state championship meet at Thornton Academy on Saturday, June 6.