ORONO – For the first two weeks of the season, the teams with the most-feared rosters in the Eastern Maine Indoor Track League had a couple of things in common.

First, they all had perfect records that they’d piled up while beating the daylights out of the teams who’d faced them.

And second, they were all in desperate need of some top-notch competition that would prove a more telling barometer than their aggregate 38-0 record did.

What those teams – the Bangor, Brewer and Hampden girls and the Bangor and Brewer boys – found out in their only head-to-head-to-head matchup of the regular season was this:

The EMITL title is up for grabs.

The Brewer boys and girls swept the team competitions, but even their coach admitted he didn’t expect his teams to hold insurmountable leads before points from the night’s final event were tabulated.

“I was very surprised,” Dave Jeffrey said. “Not so much that we won, but the way we did it.”

The Witches put together a postseason-caliber string of clutch performances and last-second victories en route to a pair of narrow victories.

The Brewer boys topped Bangor 95-83, with Ellsworth (35), Old Town (32) and Hampden Academy (25) rounding out the five-team field.

Brewer got two wins from Jon Dearborn (200-400), two more from Justin Spencer (60, triple jump) and a stirring shot-put victory from Nick Coffin.

Each of the three earned one of their wins in dramatic fashion, with Dearborn storming from behind to take the 200 at the tape, Spencer taking the triple jump on his final attempt, and Coffin eking out a win on his last toss of the day.

Bangor countered with a distance double from Ben Allen (mile, two mile).

And in the girls meet, the Witches scored 96 to Bangor’s 79 and Hampden’s 69. Ellsworth finished with 18 and Old Town had 10.

Both the Brewer girls and boys improved their perfect seasonal records to 12-0.

The Brewer win may have overshadowed the meet’s lone league record in the girls meet … but not by much.

Hampden sophomore Oriana Farley hooked up with record-holding senior Heather Jovanelli in the 800 and wound up sprinting away from her senior rival on the final lap and lopping a gaudy 2.28 seconds off the week-old mark. Her time was 2 minutes, 20.76 seconds.

Making Farley’s effort more impressive is that she entered the 800 after winning the mile, while Jovanelli ran the 800 fresh. Farley said being a bit race-weary made staying ahead a priority.

“I didn’t want her to pass me and pull away. That’s what I was afraid of: losing her in the middle of the race,” Farley said. “So I just tried to hold on and fight her off.”

Bangor’s Jana Savage won the 60, the 200 and ran a leg on the winning relay. She was the lone three-event winner in the girls meet.

Hampden coach David King said that despite the postseason feel – and some top-notch performances – the meet was essentially a learning experience for athletes and coaches alike.

“I think all of us, if you give us the choice … do you want to have the win or the loss, we’ll take the win,” King said. “But that’s not the priority.”

For Jeffrey, the priority was competition, pure and simple.

But he knows things will get tougher.

“[The] Bangor [boys are] so good, I’m afraid we might have wakened a sleeping giant,” Jeffrey said. “They’re gonna come back at us really strong. …

“And Hampden? Their girls are terrific.”

The Broncos are strong and proven, as they won last year’s indoor and outdoor state titles with many of the same performers.

Bangor coach Maynard Walton pointed out that Brewer was able to combat his Rams’ potent boys sprint corps (Bangor outscored the Witches only 20-18 in two of their strongest events, the 60 and 200).

But he was happy with his team’s performances in both meets.

“I tell them: This is where you’ve got to improve,” Walton said. “You’ve got to want to be here and you’ve got to improve on your mark.”

Track & field

HIGH SCHOOL

Brewer boys 95, Bangor 83, Ellsworth 35, Old Town 32, Hampden 25

60-yard dash: Justin Spencer (Br) 6.80, Maynard (Ban) 6.84, Coladarci (Ban) 6.88, Dearborn (Br) 6.96, Quirk (Ban) 6.97; 60 hurdles: Adam MacBeth (E) 8.29, Breau (Br) 8.65, Wood (HA) 9.28, Worster (Ban) 9.32, Merriam (Ban) 9.78; mile: Ben Allen (Ban) 4:35.77, Fraser (Br) 4:44.66, Goode (Ban) 4:48.11, Sitterly (E) 4:50.68, Nelson (HA) 4:52.46; high jump: Adam Cambridge (OT) 5-6, Belanger (Ban) 5-6, Taylor (Ban) 5-4, Patrick (Br) 5-4, Staples (E) 5-2; shot put: Nick Coffin (Ban) 47-11, Sing (Ban) 47-4, Holmes (OT) 41-8, Stanwood (Br) 41-6?, Geaghan (Br) 40-1; long jump: Adam MacBeth (E) 20-2?, Spencer (Br) 19-7?, Sypitkowski (Ban) 18-?, Wark (Ban) 17-11?, Trundy (E) 17-8?; 400: Jon Dearborn (Br) 52.65, Patrick (Br) 55.98, Shorey (E) 56.91, Coladarci (Ban) 56.99, Mroz (Ban) 57.39; 800: Ian Fraser (Br) 2:09.81, Nelson (HA) 2:10.39, Chaiken (Ban) 2:14.43, Hassell (HA) 2:15.40, Wilbur (E) 2:16.38; pole vault: Brad Simms (HA) 10-6, Sitterly (E) 10-0, Brown (OT) 10-0, Bulay (OT) 9-6, Worster (Ban) 9-6; 200: Jon Dearborn (Br) 23.94, Quirk (Ban) 24.02, Jackson (HA) 24.07, Maynard (Ban) 24.21, Taylor (Ban) 24.31; 2 mile: Ben Allen (Ban) 10:21.43, Sighinolfi (Br) 10:46.59, Goode (Ban) 10:47.59, Haluska (Br) 10:50.12, Rudolph (E) 10:52.14; triple jump: Justin Spencer (Br) 38-11?, Wark (OT) 38-6?, Breau (Br) 37-8?, Trundy (E) 37-3, Staples (E) 37-?; 880 relay: Bangor (Nick Maynard, Chad Davis, Joe Taylor, Mike Quirk) 1:36.49, Old Town 1:40.94, Brewer 1:40.99

Brewer girls 96, Bangor 79, Hampden 69, Ellsworth 18, Old Town 10

60-yard dash: Jana Savage (Ban) 7.75, Quaglia (Ban) 7.91, Beal (HA) 7.92, Soucie (Ban) 7.94, Gardner (E) 7.97; mile: Oriana Farley (HA) 5:26.81, Clark (Br) 5:32.90, Patterson (Br) 5:47.66, Estes (HA) 6:02.16, Potvin (HA) 6:10.04; long jump: Chrissy Beal (HA) 15-2?, Bigda (Ban) 15-1, Le. Rosa (Br) 14-11?, Pelletier (Br) 14-8?, Bosse (HA) 14-6?; pole vault: Megan Huckins (Ban) 8-0, Lainez (Br) 7-6, La. Rosa (Br) 7-6, Mytar (E) 7-0, Economy (Br) 7-0; 60 hurdles: Jani Bosse (HA) 9.30, Gardner (E) 9.37, Buchanan (Ban) 9.44, Lock (E) 9.58, Rawcliffe (HA) 9.79; 400: Leslie Rosa (Br) 1:03.86, Rawcliffe (HA) 1:03.87, Newton (HA) 1:05.74, Pelletier (Br) 1:06.20; 800: Oriana Farley (HA) 2:20.76 (league record), Jovanelli (Br) 2:24.64, Clark (Br) 2:27.13, Kingsbury (HA) 2:28.37, Nadeau (OT) 2:33.90; high jump: Abby Buchanan (Ban) 5-0, Lainez (Br) 4-6, Beal (HA) 4-4, Langley (E) 4-4, Breau (Br) 4-2; shot put: Ashley Chapman (Ban) 33-0, Dowling (Br) 32-9, Torsch (OT) 31-3, Michelle Baker (Br) 30-10, Parsons (HA) 30-9?; triple jump: Joslyn Pelletier (Br) 32-10, Breau (Br) 32-8?, Bosse (HA) 32-7?, Rawcliffe (HA) 31-10?, Bigda (Ban) 31-1?; 200: Jana Savage (Ban) 27.96, Quaglia (Ban) 28.01, Dumont (OT) 28.55, Le. Rosa (Br) 28.91, Lock (E) 29.04; 2 mile: Heather Jovanelli (Br) 12:26.77, Smith (Ban) 12:35.57, Patterson (Br) 13:00.36, Potvin (HA) 13:50.97, Tibbits (OT) 14:09.28; 880 relay: Bangor (Adrienne Soucie, Lauren Quaglia, Jana Savage, Abby Buchanan) 1:56.21, Brewer 1:58.14, Ellsworth 2:00.28, Hampden Academy 2:00.53