BAR HARBOR – Both the boys and girls Penobscot Valley Conference Large School Track and Field Championship meets came down to the final relay. For the Hampden girls, having standout Oriana Farley running the anchor leg of the 1,600 relay meant the Broncos could probably rest easily.

It was a bit different for the Ellsworth boys, who needed every ounce out of Matt Jordan to secure their win.

The Eagles managed to rally past Bangor in that final event of Friday’s meet at the Mount Desert Island High track, scoring 114 points to take the PVC title. The Rams ended up second with 107 points. Old Town rode Kalle Eko’s 40 point-performance to finish third with a 104.5, Hampden scored 65 and Brewer was fifth with 46 points.

The Hampden girls battled Caribou for most of the meet and emerged with 120 points and the league crown. The Vikings earned the runner-up title with 108 points and Bangor was third with 91. Old Town came in fourth (72) and Brewer was fifth (66).

In the boys meet, Bangor went 1-2-3 in the javelin, which finished just as the relay started, and had a 2-point lead headed into the final event.

Greg Trundy, Lucas Carriere and Joey Dewitt, who ran the first three legs of the relay, kept the Eagles up front but teams from Old Town, Hampden and Presque Isle stayed close. Jordan and Old Town’s Dustin Honey battled in the final 400. Honey took the lead with about 200 meters to go, but Jordan caught up in the final 100.

“I just looked for the open spot, which was the outside because he was hugging the inside,” Jordan said. “I took the outside, stayed with his shoulder, and with about 50 meters to go I gave it everything I had.”

Carriere won the 400 and was fourth in the 200. Dewitt and Kris Tracy went 1-2 in both the 800 and the 1,600, and Dewitt was first in the 3,200. Herbie Ryan won the 110 hurdles and was second in the 300 hurdles.

Ryan grabbed two points for his fifth in the discus throw, but that was all the Eagles collected in the field events.

“We have no jumpers, we have no throwers, all we have are runners,” Jordan said. “We try to put a runner in almost every event. Joey and Kris did awesome in the distance events, Lucas and Greg and Herbie, we all just try to do the sprinting and the relays. That’s all we have.”

The final battle didn’t overshadow Old Town’s Eko, who took home four first-place medals and provided an exciting, photo-finish moment in the 100 dash. The Princeton-bound senior edged Hampden’s Trainor Kapler by one one-hundreth of a second in that race and then nipped Kapler again in the 200.

“It was kind of surprising,” Eko said of the 100. “In the final 10 meters he was ahead of me by maybe a step. In the end I just kind of lunged forward and stuck my neck out, trying to get in front of him and that made the difference.”

Eko opened the meet with a win in the long jump and he later won the triple jump.

In the girls meet, four league records fell by the wayside as the Broncos battled the Vikings.

Hampden had an eight-point lead over Caribou going into the final relay. Brewer went on to win the race, but the Broncos garnered eight points for second place while the Vikings got four points for their fourth-place finish.

“We knew obviously the meet was close,” Farley said. “I just figured if I could run a [59-second split] we’d be OK. So I did, so we ended up OK.”

Rawcliffe set a PVC record in the 300 hurdles with a time of 47.70. Farley did the same in the 800, finishing in a record 2:17.05.

Farley’s 800 time was impressive, but the Broncos finishing below her in that event were a big key for Hampden. Amanda Gervasi, who was seeded third, actually finished second, and seventh-seeded Shelly Estes came in fourth overall.

“That was a huge race for us,” Farley said. “Amanda stepped up big, Shelly came back from the 4-by-8. That picked up a lot of points we weren’t seeded to have and didn’t necessarily expect to get, either. The 800’s close to the end of the meet and you don’t know how people are feeling at that point.”

Rawcliffe had a stellar day as well, winning the long jump and the triple jump to go with the hurdles. Farley was second and Molly Balentine was fourth, respectively, in the 1,600. Elizabeth Hassell took the racewalk.

Brewer star Heather Clark logged a PVC-record time of 5:03.19 in the 1,600. She also won the 3,200 and anchored the winning 1,600 relay that finished in a league-record 4:13.29. Joslynn Pelletier, Rebecca Breau and Miranda Rancourt rounded out the relay team.

Lindsay Burlock led Caribou with three first-place finishes. She won the 100, took the 200 and earned a win in the 400. Burlock also finished fourth in the triple jump.