AUGUSTA – Dean Hall’s cryptic mind carried the only doubt in anyone’s mind Friday about which team would walk away with the MVC track titles.

Lisbon’s coach walked around with a clipboard in the waning daylight at Cony High School’s track complex, figuring out plus-minus ratios and tracking his athletes from event to event.

It’s a good thing he can add large numbers quickly.

The Lisbon girls piled up 148 points, leaving second-place Hall-Dale (109) in their wake to claim a school-record-setting third consecutive conference title.

“It’s a lot of hard work, and a lot of dedicated kids, and it’s so fun to watch them improve over the course of the season, from that first day, to where they are right now,” Hall said.

Not to be outdone, the Lisbon boys’ squad also tripled up, thumping Winthrop by 87.

Cam Bubar provided fireworks midway through the meet, under a faint, distant rainbow.

In the 800, the Lisbon runner clung to Winthrop senior Danny Soltan’s hip for 700 meters, and at the final turn, kicked into a second gear and out-legged his rival by four-tenths of a second, in a time of 1:59.64.

“He’s a heck of a runner,” Bubar said of Soltan. “I just tried to stay with him the whole way, and in that last 100, I just gave it everything I had left.”

Everything Bubar had was more than he probably should have. Less than an hour before his 800, Bubar fouled out of the triple jump on three attempts after his leg gave way each time.

“Doors open, doors close,” Hall said. “If you’re in a door, and it opens, go right through. If it’s shut because of something that happened to you along the way, put it behind you and open another one.”

On the girls’ side, Rebekah Sullivan led the Greyhounds with 26 individual points, and was part of the blue-ribbon-winning 4×400-meter relay team.

“I try to look at my own personal records and try to beat those,” Sullivan said. “It makes the rest of it easy. I definitely worry about the places, but it all goes together.”

In the 4×400, Sullivan ran the anchor leg and outsprinted the MVC’s top 400 runner, Jen DeNormandie of Telstar.

Sullivan’s drive typified Lisbon’s meet. The Greyhounds won only two events (Katrina McKay in the pole vault and Sara Adams in the racewalk) in which Sullivan did not compete, but it was a gaggle of seconds, thirds and fourths across the board that pushed Lisbon over the edge.

“Not only do you have to worry about holding your seed, but you have to worry about what you’ve got to do to better the team in general,” said Lisbon’s Kelley Baickle, who finished second in the racewalk and third in the 100-meter hurdles. “You have to think about the overall, and if you can get that extra point, that’s excellent.”

Telstar’s Frankie DelDuca took home Male Athlete of the Meet honors Friday, scoring 40 points with four first-place finishes (100, 200, long jump and triple jump).

Laura Peterson of Hall-Dale was the Female Athlete of the Meet. She, too won four events (long jump, triple jump, high jump, 200) and set meet records in both the high jump and triple jump.

Locally, on the girls’ side, DeNormandie won the 400, and placed second in the 100 and 200. Karen Rice of Winthrop took first in the 100, while the Ramblers’ Kenzie Hill earned gold in the 800.

Local winners on the boys’ side included Chris Schwarz of Telstar in the 400, Soltan of Winthrop in the 1,600, George Clement of Lisbon in the 110 hurdles, Larry Foster of Winthrop in the high jump and Nate Blackwell of Lisbon in the javelin.