LEWISTON – An Eastern Maine coach may have stumbled onto the secret recipe for beating Scarborough’s boys halfway through Monday’s State Class B Track and Field Championships at Bates College.

“If we take all the Eastern Maine teams and put them together, maybe that would work,” said the coach, who will remain nameless for obvious reasons.

Actually, Scarborough’s margin of victory in winning its third straight Class B crown was only 22 points – 75-53 – over Orono.

But after an early 1-2 finish by brothers Aaron and Kyle Webber in the 55-meter hurdles and a 2-4 showing by Jessemar Ross and Andrew Locke in the next event, the 55, the drama was over.

Ellsworth finished third with 47, while Belfast and Greely of Cumberland Center had 32 each, Hermon scored 27, and Foxcroft Academy notched 24.

In the girls meet, Greely finished on top with 75, while Scarborough edged Hampden for second, 52-46. Gorham had 36 and Foxcroft 23.

In the boys meet, Scarborough coach Jim Doane’s underclassmen scored 66 points en route to the win.

“As we expected, we had some tremendous performances,” Doane said. “We also figured that some kids were going to be off, and others wer going to be very on, and that’s exactly what happened.”

Orono was led by Craig Sidell’s win in the 55, and by a pair of second place finishes by Preston Ringo in the mile and two-mile. Illness kept Matt Pare from competing, but his brother, Mike, scored 14 points in his three events.

Ringo’s two-mile race paved the way for the Red Riots’ second-place finish, as he was able to split up Ellsworth’s brother act of Joey and Louie Luchini.

Ringo threw a surge at the tandem early in the second mile, building a 25-yard lead. While Joey Luchini was able to reel in Ringo and post the win, Louie Luchini finished third. Ringo was topped by both Luchinis in last week’s Eastern Maine Indoor Track League Championships.

The Eagles were led by two wins from distance ace Joey Luchini, one from pole vaulter Andy Beekman, and another from triple jumper Jake Leyendecker.

Emil Thoman of Sumner of East Sullivan won a stirring duel with Scarborough’s Greg Hobbs in the 600-yard run, nipping the Redskin 1:16.22 to 1:16.33.

In the girls competition, Greely’s Katie Getz took firsts in the long jump and the high jump and came in second in the triple jump as the Rangers cruised to the win.

Hampden got wins from Kara Tinkham in the mile and Shilo Marden in the shot put to start strong, but any hopes for the runner-up trophy were lost when Kate Toye anchored the Scarborugh relay team to a 1:54.96 win.

Hampden coach Dave King knew before the relay that the odds weren’t in the Broncos’ favor of beating Toye, the winner of the 55 and 300, and the Scarborough team.

“That’s going to be tough,” King said before the race. “I’ll be the most surprised person here if we do [finish ahead of Scarborough].”

Senior thrower Marden said she was pleased with how the Broncos performed all day.

“I’m just impressed with everybody,” she said. “Everybody has gone out and tried their hardest.”

Robin Bates of Winslow was a double winner, taking the 1,000 and two-mile.

Foxcroft’s sister-brother tandem of junior Sarah Keenan and senior Shawn Keenan ruled the horizontal jumps, combining for two wins, a second, and a fifth.

Sarah Keenan, who participated in and taught gymnastics last winter instead of running indoor track, won the triple jump and came in second in the long jump. And she knew who to credit with her being on the track in the first place.

“My brother made me do it,” she said.