It’s an embarrassment of riches, really.

Edward Little’s girls’ track and field team could split into two, and still, each half would be favored to win the KVAC championship at Morse on Saturday on its own. In fact, that may be a great idea for an internal motivational tool, if it isn’t already.

By seeds, EL’s track event athletes would earn in the neighborhood of 134 points, and its field athletes about 139.

The next closest full team, by seeds, would be Mt. Ararat, at 101.

“It will be a great, competitive meet in some areas,” EL coach Rebecca Hefty said. “And the girls have to get good times so they can get good seeds at the state meet. Second thing is setting some of their own goals, ones they set for themselves at the beginning of the year.”

The boys’ side is a bit tighter, and is so a bit by design. Edward Little is, of course, the strong favorite here, too, but with an eye on the Class A state championship meet in Saco next Saturday, the Eddies will focus their efforts Saturday on preparing every athlete for that meet.

“We’re more focused on next week,” EL boys’ coach Ryan Laroche said. “Not to the point where we’re overlooking this meet, but we’ve won the last five of these things, and our goal for the last few years has been the state meet, and that’s where we have our focus.”

Most of the top contenders got together last week for a meet at Mt. Ararat, and EL flexed its dominance, particularly in the throwing events.

On the girls’ side, led by Frankie Lally in the javelin, Emily Blackwood in the discus and Josie Lahey in the shot put, the Eddies are seeded to earn 54 points alone. Add in the triple jump (30) and long jump (24), and EL would be close to winning the meet outright through five events.

Emily Dodge is a quadruple medal threat for the Eddies, garnering first-place seeds in the long jump, triple jump and 100-meter hurdles and a No. 2 seed in the 300-meter hurdles.

All three EL girls’ relays are slotted No. 1 Saturday, too.

The boys’ throwing squad, meanwhile, is on the docket for 72 points. But as Laroche likes to point out, by the seeds, his squad could win the meet if all of the throwing events were taken out of the meet.

“We’d still win the meet by 15 to 20 points, depending on how you scored it,” Laroche said. “We like to think we have some balance in there, and we do.”

As much as the scores will likely contradict it, there are other local teams – and athletes – vying for titles at this weekend’s KVAC championship meet.

Take Lewiston’s Josh Pelletier, for one. He’s the top seed statewide in the javelin. Lewiston’s Andrew Pulk has top honors in the 400-meter dash. As a team, the Devils will be battling it out with Brunswick for second place at the KVAC meet.

“We’re going to go in there and do the best we can,” Lewiston coach Ray Putnam said. “We didn’t break it down by the whole meet, we looked at each event, and we’re looking for great performances by each athlete in each event.”

Nicole Court-Menendez (racewalk), Lewiston’s 4×100-meter relay and the Blue Devils’ 4×400-meter relay represent that school’s best chance for points.

Mt. Blue, meanwhile, is seeded for 46 points, which would place the Cougars in fourth. Kelton Cullenberg is seeded third in a tight 1,600 meter race, and second in an equally tough 3,200. Cullenberg won’t participate in the racewalk this weekend, though he may at states. His best time this season in the racewalk is 7:28.30, which would be the top seed at the KVACs, and should be the top seed at the Class A state meet.

Jared Foster in both hurdle events and Sam Mungin in the 200- and 400-meter dashes are a couple more Mt. Blue athletes of note on the boys’ side.

Mt. Blue’s girls are paced by Melody Lam in the 300-meter hurdles, mile and 2-mile.

Class B

Waterville is the toast of the town in this race, with little surprise. Since dropping to Class B, the Purple Panthers have owned the KVAC.

This year, the Panthers are the top seed in both the girls’ and boys’ races. On the boys’ side, seeds give Waterville 172 points. The next closest team is Erskine Academy at 95, followed by Belfast at 93.

In the boys’ races and events, a host of Leavitt athletes are seeded to give the Hornets 27 points. They include Lauren Turner in the high jump and the mile run, Mason White in the long and triple jumps, Josh Strickland in the shot put, Brandon Maher in the pole vault, Ethan Hibler in the racewalk and Jordan Hersom in the 110-meter hurdles.

Waterville’s girls’ squad is heavily favored (166 points by seeds) over Winslow (105).

Gardiner leads a contingent of teams vying for third place, a list that includes Leavitt. More specifically, Leavitt’s squad’s projected points all come from Allison Fereshetian, who is seeded first in the 200, second in the 100 and 300 hurdles, and third in the long jump.