ORONO – The sub-zero conditions outside the UMaine field house managed to sneak in and affect some of the runners competing in Saturday’s Eastern Maine Indoor Track League meets.

Two runners who didn’t seem to mind the chilly temperatures were Bangor’s Jolene Belanger and Old Town’s Cassie Hintz.

Belanger won three events, including the 800 run in 2 minutes, 23.59 seconds, in leading the Rams to the win in the “B” meet, 165-62 over cross-town rival John Bapst. Hampden was third out of seven teams with 59, Orono had 44, Ellsworth 43, Mattanawcook of Lincoln 33 and Sumner of East Sullivan rounded out the scoring with 11.

Bangor’s boys fought Hampden through the meet, and eventually eked out a 127.50-117.50 victory. Ellsworth (65.50), Orono (61.50), Mattanawcook (32), Sumner (12) and John Bapst (12) completed the scoring.

The Rams’ Belanger made a statement in the 800 – a race some fans thought would be a thrash with Belanger and Hampden junior Amanda Gervasi – by taking the race out in splits of 30 and 64 seconds. Gervasi finished second in 2:31.85.

“I just tried to go out a little bit faster. I wasn’t expecting to go that fast,” Belanger said with a chuckle. “I was pretty pleased with it. I was going for a PR today.”

Belanger also won both jumping events, the long jump (15-1/4) and the triple jump (31-11).

“I had not as good a day in long but I had a good day in triple,” she said.

Teammates Katrina Schweikert, Emilie Bronson, Catie Zielinski and Catherine LeClair backed up Belanger by going 3-4-5-6 in the triple jump.

With the field house being so chilly, tight muscles could have been a factor, so many athletes needed good, solid warm-ups.

“They really don’t loosen enough to get the big blood into the big muscles,” said Rams coach Maynard Walton. “I was concerned about pulling muscles today.”

Kelly Krapf won two events for Bangor, the 60 (8.02) and 200 (28.66).

The boys’ meet was a dogfight to the finish, but Bangor’s depth was too much for the smaller Broncos.

The Rams set the tone early by winning the 4×880 relay with Ethan Lambert, Pat Taylor, Branden Mountain and Casey Quaglia in 8:53.97, which should be EM’s top time. Quaglia also won the 2-mile later in 10:29.64, using his dangerous kick to track down Hampden’s Chris Peverada (10:39.70, second) who had led most of the race.

“The 4×800 had very good improvement,” Walton said.

Bangor’s Nick Buchanan showed the EMITL he may be the person to beat in the high jump, clearing 6-4 before missing at 6-6.

“He also did well in the long jump and shot put. He’s moving up in all three,” Walton said of Buchanan, who won the long jump in 18-21/4 and was third in the shot put in 38-81/2.

Hampden standout Tranior Kapler took the 60 (6.90) and 200 (23.79) and finished second in the triple jump (38-8.50).

In meet “A”, the Old Town boys and girls rolled to the team titles. The Indians girls earned a 165.33-118 win over Mount Desert Island. Hermon was third out of seven schools with 36, followed by Foxcroft Academy (31.33), Brewer (26.33), George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill (19) and Bucksport (13).

Old Town junior Hintz broke her own EMITL 2-mile record, lapping nine other runners at least twice on her way to a time of 10:40.94.

“She wanted to go 10:40 or better, and her splits were all nice and even, 39-40 seconds (per 200),” said OT coach Rod White. “She said toward the end the illness she had slowed her down a bit.”

Alivia Moore got two wins for the Indians in the 60 (8.12) and 200 (28.93). Amanda Ewing and Jen Higgins helped her out by going 4-5 in the 60. Higgins was also second in the hurdles while Ashleigh Madden was fourth in the mile and took the 800 in 2:37.09.

The Indians also won both relays, the 4×220 in 2:00.19 and the 4×800 in 11:11.34, which Madden anchored.

In the boys’ meet, Old Town pulled away from a young Brewer team late to win by a 136-85 margin. MDI was third with 62, Foxcroft fourth (37), Bucksport fifth (34), GSA sixth (32) and Hermon seventh (25).

Old Town sprinting sensation Andrew Reinzo, who has been nursing a sore hamstring the past couple weeks, tweaked it in the 60 dash.

“He just aggravated it again, so I took him out of the rest of the meet,” White said.

Like the other teams in the meet, Old Town had to take extra caution in its warm-up routines due to the chilly temps in the field house.

“We reiterated that they warm up more than usual,” said White. “You cool off a lot faster than normal days.”

Shot put standout Tyler Eastman continued to climb the distance ladder with a heave of 54-71/4.

“He’s doing fine,” White said. “Last week he had a foul that was in the 55-foot range. He’s still throwing well.”

Wesley Comeau and Brandon Gastia went 2-4 in the long jump while Josh March was second in the 200 and won the 400 for Old Town. Distance man Seth Tillotson was second in the 2-mile and Mark Liimakka took the pole vault in 11-0 while Sam Petrie was second and Tillotson fourth.

With two weeks left until championship time, White said his Indians will train through next week’s smaller meet.

“We’ll just train hard through next week, and the kids will maybe only do one or two events,” he said. “We’ll start tapering the week after.”