BANGOR – While most of the other Penobscot Valley Conference track and field teams opened their seasons in beautiful, spring-like conditions this week, the weather gods were not nice to the Bangor High School teams Friday.

“It wasn’t that bad, it was just really cold,” Rams’ senior distance runner Casey Quaglia said of the windy, cold, and sometimes rainy conditions.

Bangor persevered in the tough elements, and rolled to the boys’ team title with 197 points.

Nokomis of Newport finished second in the four-team field with 62 points, while Hermon was third (15) and Bangor Christian fourth (1).

The Bangor girls, led by Jennie Lucy and Allie Clukey, also triumphed with 187 points. Nokomis scored 54, Bangor Christian 17 and Hermon 16.

In the boys meet, Bangor’s talented trio of seniors Quaglia and Cam Cormier and junior Riley Masters picked up right where they left off in February, combining for five individual wins and running on three winning relay teams.

“We definitely have a solid team,” said Quaglia, who won the 1,600 meters in 4 minutes, 32.93 seconds and the 800 in 2:06.50.

The Binghamton University-bound Quaglia was aiming for a 4:40-mile. The good news was, he broke that barrier but the bad news, he says, was he went out too fast.

“I was definitely pleased, me and [distance] coach [Jamie Cooke] talked about it,” Quaglia explained. “I was trying to rest up a little bit, and not come out with a necessarily fast time. I came out way too fast.”

The 800, Quaglia admitted, was not the smartest race he’s run.

“I came through in 59 [seconds], it was just not a smart race on my part,” he said.

Masters, who ran uncontested to a 10:27.62 victory in the 3,200, said it was imperative the Rams get their first meet in.

“It was definitely essential to get this meet in,” said Masters, who finished second in the 1,600 behind Quaglia in 4:37.56.

“We don’t want to go in against some tough competition and have it be our first race. It was a good opening meet, I think,” Masters added.

Masters was pleased with his 3,200 time, citing that he was running against himself the whole race.

“The [3,200], I was all alone the whole time. I was pretty happy with that running solo,” Masters said.

“My mile probably could have been a little bit faster,” Masters added. “I took it out a little too fast, [but] Casey and I held on strong.”

Masters also noted that when the temperature drops, a runner’s warmup time increases, and the routine becomes tougher.

“It was tough to warm up today because it was so cold,” he said.

Sprinter Cormier collected a pair of individual victories in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, with times of 11.67 and 23.00, respectively, while also anchoring the 4×100 and 4×400-meter relays.

Other Bangor winners were Tyler Seekins in the 110- and 300-meter hurdles in 17.41 and 43.57 seconds, and 5-6 in the high jump.

Steve Shea won two events for Nokomis, taking the discus with a toss of 125 feet, 7 inches and the shot put with a heave of 48-9.

In the girls meet, the Rams got solid all-around performances from their standouts en route to the season-opening win.

Junior Lucy ran on a pair of winning relays, leading off the 4×800 and anchoring the 4×400, and cruised to victory in the 800 in 2:33.44.

Dee Wilbur, who had an outstanding indoor season in the hurdles, took second in both hurdle races, recording a time of 18.77 in the 100 hurdles and 56.85 in the 300s.

Rebecca Wolinski of Nokomis captured both of those races in 18.57 and 54.39, respectively.

Clukey dominated the short sprints, taking the 100 in 14.01 and 200 in 29.34. Teammate Brittany Chapman took second place in both those events while Clukey was second in the long jump to teammate Becca Bogan.

Bogan, who’s winning long jump mark was 14 feet, 6.50 inches, also captured the triple jump in 32-0.

Other Bangor winners included Kendall Lunn’s 6:13.70 finish in the 1,600 and Rachel Huber’s 13:18.61 effort in the 3,200.