ORONO – Coach Maynard Walton sure didn’t expect his Bangor girls indoor track and field team to be up by 41 1/2 points over Old Town and 51 1/2 over Brewer with two events remaining in Saturday’s Eastern Maine Indoor Track League championships at the University of Maine field house.

“We knew we had to [be up] 18 points or better at the 2-mile,” the veteran coach said.

Bangor’s high jumpers and triple jumpers gave the Rams enough of a cushion heading into those late events, in which the Coyotes and Witches were seeded well.

“That’s where we usually get points in the end. When it gets close, we just pull away with those events,” Rams junior mid-distance runner Jennie Lucy said.

Bangor did that and then some, literally jumping away for its fourth straight EMITL title and fifth in six seasons with 108 1/2 points.

Old Town finished a strong second with 92 points, while Brewer was third in the 14-school field with 69.5 points.

Hampden Academy finished fourth with 32 points while Mount Desert Island rounded out the top five with 27.

Coyotes distance runner Hilary Maxim won two out of three distance races to capture the Outstanding Performer award.

Maxim held off Shauna Lynch of Ellsworth to win the mile in 5 minutes, 19.39 seconds and cruised to an 11:38.86 victory in the 2-mile.

Maxim engaged in a duel with Lucy in the 800, during which the two runners traded positions throughout the first two laps, each running a 69-second opening 400 before Lucy pulled away for a 2:22.12 victory. Maxim finished in 2:24.70.

Lucy took the lead for good down the backstretch just after the halfway point, after Maxim attempted to make a pass on the outside.

“I was just like, I can’t give up now, I have to just go for it, I have nothing to lose,” said Lucy, who less than a half-hour before the 800 ran a blazing 1:01.54 in the 400, completing perhaps the toughest event combination in track and field.

The reason she ran the tough double, Lucy said, was to accumulate points for Bangor.

“I did that mostly for the team,” she said. “I’m just really excited and really happy with how I did today.”

The meet was closer than the score indicated before the 2-mile, as the Witches and Coyotes both led at different points, which didn’t surprise Lucy.

“We thought it was going to be really close the whole way. It was really back and forth the whole meet,” she explained.

With the exception of Lucy, the Rams only had three other individual winners: Becca Bogan in the triple jump, 33 feet, 3 1/2 inches; Dee Wilbur’s 9.43 personal-best effort in the 60 hurdles, and Kendra Lenz’s 7.81 triumph in the 60. However, Bangor outscored Brewer and Old Town a combined 25 1/2-4 1/2 points in the triple and high jumps, two of their stronger events, which proved to be the difference.

“They were the keys. I told them you’ve got to want to be here and got to be willing to compete,” Walton said. “I’m so proud of them. They came through.”

Catie Zielinski and Catherline LeClair, who said Thursday the jumping events would be vital to the Rams’ championship dreams, took third and fifth, respectively, in the triple jump while Robin Treadwell finished second in the high jump.

Lenz added a second in the 200 in 28.06 and Jen Tsang a second in the pole vault at 8-6.

Old Town athletes captured both of those events. Amanda Ewing won the 200 in 27.58 and Heather Jackson took the pole vault in 8-6.

The other individual winner for coach Rod White’s Coyotes was Samantha Kitchen in the long jump. Kitchen came out of the second flight to win in 15-9 1/2, a foot and a half farther than her personal best this winter.

With records falling everywhere in the boys meet, the girls didn’t want to be left out of the record-setting party, and the 4×220 team from Brewer made that happen.

The quartet of Erika Cote, Kira Giroux, Britany Albert, and Colleen Carr ran to a mark of 1:51.52, breaking a standard of 1:51.6 (hand timed) set by Brewer in 1984, meaning these record-breaking Witches weren’t even alive when the original record was established.

“It’s really exciting, we all worked really hard to get it,” anchor leg Carr said.

“It was definitely a team effort,” Cote added.

Second leg Giroux had a feeling Brewer was in the record books when she saw second-year coach Jamerson Crowley literally leap out of the building.

“We had a lot of motivation from him,” Giroux said.

Crowley was named EMITL Girls Coach of the Year.