ORONO – Cam Cormier has had a pretty good senior year so far.

Last fall, he was a key part of the Bangor High soccer team which won the program’s first-ever Class A state title.

This winter, he has been a huge part of the Rams’ success in track and field, and he’s literally setting Eastern Maine Indoor Track League records about every time he sets himself in the starting blocks.

Now, his name is etched in not only EMITL lore but Maine track and field history as the first Maine athlete to break the 50-second barrier in the 400, running an astounding 49.94 at Saturday’s EMITL championships at the University of Maine.

“It feels amazing. Right at the start I knew it was going to be difficult,” said Cormier, who also won the 60 and 200 dashes to help lead the Rams to their third consecutive team title.

“I was just trying to kick as much as I could. I started dying [with] probably 30-40 yards left,” Cormier added. “I thought it was going to be pretty good.”

It was pretty good and then some, just like Bangor’s dominating team effort.

The Rams racked up a whopping 183 points, with Hampden Academy finishing a distant second with 55.

Brewer was third in the 14-school field with 48 points, while Old Town was fourth with 38 and Orono fifth with 35.

Cormier shared the Outstanding Performer award with teammate Casey Quaglia, who won the mile, 800 and 2 mile, and HA’s Jonathan Lenz, who won the long and triple jumps plus the high jump.

Cormier wasn’t alone in the record-breaking festivities. Orono pole vaulter James Berry narrowly cleared 13 feet, 9 inches to break the old mark of 13-83/4, then easily cleared 14 feet on his next vault before missing on three attempts at 14-3.

The 13-9 vault was so close that the bar was shaking.

“I hit it on my way down, so I was hoping it would stay up there,” Berry said.

In practice this past week, he worked on popping straight up, which he says “gives you more time” to clear the bar.

It worked, and he soared over 14 feet with plenty of room to spare.

“That vault felt really nice today,” Berry said. “The pole vaulting gods were on my side.”

Not so much on his second attempt at 14-3, where the bar clattered for a crowd-gasping second before falling.

“I didn’t push hard enough and my hips came down and crashed the bar,” Berry said.

Berry also won the 60 hurdles in 8.04 seconds.

Lenz’s final leap in the triple jump enabled him to share the Outstanding Performer award with Quaglia and Cormier.

After Old Town standout Brandon Gastia popped a 43-81/4 on his last attempt, an Old Town school record, Lenz responded with a remarkable leap of 44-01/2.

That same combination finished 1-2 in the long jump, with marks of 20-81/4 for Lenz and 20-51/4 for Gastia. Lenz’s winning height in the high jump was 6-2.

Quaglia completed a tough mile/800/2-mile triple, winning EM titles in all three distance events for the third consecutive year, with times of 4 minutes, 27.28 seconds, 2:06.77, and 9:58.02. Fellow distance star Riley Masters anchored Bangor’s winning 4×880 relay and was second in both the mile and 2-mile.

“The whole team is stepping it up on the track every day. I just can’t say enough about our team,” Quaglia said. “It doesn’t get any better than this group of guys. We’re just like a family.”

The Rams’ 4×220 foursome of Tony Martinez, Chris Illingworth, Tyler Seekins, and Curtis Coleman capped a record-shattering day by breaking the league record of 1:34.23 with a stellar 1:34.06.

Ironically, Martinez, Coleman, and Illingworth had teamed up with Cormier to set the previous record on Jan. 20, which says something about how dangerous the Rams will be at next week’s state championships.

“We’re really just going to take it day by day just to see where it takes us,” Quaglia said.

“We’ve got to figure out the 4×880 for the boys and the 4×220 for the boys,” said Rams coach Maynard Walton, who was voted EMITL Boys Coach of the Year by his peers.

Bangor’s other individual victory came in the shot put, with Robert Seccareccia taking top honors with a toss of 46-10, while teammate Brad White was second in 43-81/4.

Cormier’s winning efforts in the 60 and 200 were 6.71, his fastest this season, and 23.05.