VASSALBORO – The Carolina blue stocking cap and gloves Toby Spector wore were a subtle – albeit unplanned – tribute to his sister Abby, the seven-time Maine women’s golf champion and former University of North Carolina standout now recovering from complications from heart surgery.

“I’d like to say it was intentional,” said Spector, a Waterville High School senior, “but it wasn’t. It is ironic, though. I just kind of pulled them out of the drawer.”

A less subtle tribute was the way he played golf Saturday. Much like his sister has dominated the Maine women’s golf scene for the past decade, Toby Spector ruled the course and the rest of the field during Saturday’s state high school individual championships at Natanis Golf Course.

Spector shot a 6-under-par 66, good for a four-shot victory over Chris Wilson of Brewer and Joe Elwell of Morse High School in Bath in the Class A division. Bangor’s Tim Hardy and Nick Boutin of Thornton Academy in Saco shared fourth place at 1-under 71.

Other champions were Will Robinson of Greely High School in Cumberland Center in Class B, Matt Altvater of Shead High School in Eastport in Class C, and schoolgirl co-champions Whitney Hand of Bucksport and Shannon Mitchell of Brunswick.

But nearly all of the clubhouse talk focused on Spector, who parred his first six holes before finishing with five birdies, an eagle and just one bogey.

“I usually make about six bogeys and about six birdies,” said Spector. “But I only had one bogey and I hit tons of greens. It was a good round, I couldn’t do anything wrong.”

He also benefited from some inside information – Natanis is his home course, and he estimates he’s played about 50 rounds here this year.

“It definitely helps, especially reading the greens,” he said. “I’ve seen all these pin placements before because I’ve played here so much, so nothing was new. I knew where everything was going, and it was a matter of putting it on line.”

A long driver didn’t hurt, either. Spector’s eagle, on the 480-yard 15th hole, began with a 320-yard drive down the center of the fairway that set up a 15-foot putt. He added a birdie two holes later to finish his first nine holes at 3-under par.

“Today I just wanted to go out and get pars early,” he said. “I was able to do that, and then I got that eagle and that boosted my confidence.”

Spector made his only bogey by three-putting No. 18, the first hole of his back nine, but soon ran off consecutive birdies on holes 3, 4, 5 and 6. By then it wasn’t a question of if he would win, but by how much.

“You just try to post a number,” said Spector, who matched his best-ever round at Natanis as well as the tournament record set by Kennebunk’s Tyler MacPhie in 2001. “That’s all you can do, and hope it’s the lowest one.”

Spector planned to visit his sister Saturday night to share the news of his triumph. She currently is hospitalized in Portland, but is expected to be transferred to a Waterville hospital this week to begin rehabilitation.

“I think Toby winning was a great present for his sister,” said Waterville coach Norm Gagne. “She’s been in the back of Toby’s mind each and every day, so to play the way he played today and do this gives him a great gift for her. She’ll be very proud of him.”

In Class B, Robinson parlayed steady play into his championship, firing a 1-under-par 71 built on two birdies, one bogey and 15 pars.

“I really hit the ball well, but I burned a lot of edges on my putts,” said Robinson, a junior. “I really didn’t make that many putts, but I played consistently. I hit the ball off the tee really, really well.”

Robinson’s consistency was just enough to edge second-place Marcus Maffucci of Mount Desert Island. Maffucci, a top-15 finisher at last year’s state meet, shot even-par 72. Defending co-champion Adam Duplisea of Hermon and Logan Gerrity of Maranacook in Readfield were next, two strokes further back.

In Class C, Altvater became Shead’s first individual state golf champion, though for a while the Downeast Athletic Conference medalist wasn’t sure his 5-over-par 77 would hold up.

“I didn’t think it would be good enough because last week [at the state team championships at Natanis] a couple of kids shot under par,” said Altvater, a senior.

“I was kind of surprised when I knew I won.”

Altvater, who shot an 82 and placed fourth at last year?s state meet, certainly earned this victory. He made two birdies and a 15-foot-putt for par on the final three holes to edge Dexter teammates Matt Murray and Skye Dillon, David Busch of Buckfield and James Anderson of Georges Valley in Thomaston by one stroke.

“With three holes left he had two par-5s and a par-4 to go,” said his coach and father, Mark Altvater. “I told him you need to birdie the par-5s and par the par-4, but he birdied one of the par-5s and the par-4, and then made the putt for par on the last par-5. He did a great job.”

The schoolgirl division might have had a different co-champion but for some motherly advice Hand received before her freshman season began.

“I wasn’t going to play my freshman year because I was too nervous, and I didn’t think I could play well enough,” said Hand. “I wasn’t even going to play, actually, but I improved a lot over the summer and my mom told me I should do it.”

Hand shared the schoolgirl title with Mitchell – last year’s third-place finisher – with a steady round of 85 that featured solid work off the tees.

“I used my 5-wood because I wasn’t real confident with my driver,” said Hand, the runner-up at the Penobscot Valley Conference championships.

Jamie Sparta of Deering High School in Portland was third with an 88, followed by Alicia Ramsdell of Wells (91) and Kelsey Stratton of MDI (92).