BREWER – Brewer freshman Danny Davis is an unlikely victor.

After finding his way to Maine three years ago when Kay and Len Davis of Orrington adopted him, Danny didn’t imagine he’d go out for track since he had never competed in a sport. What’s more, before Davis was brought to America through an Indiana adoption agency, he said he was slow among others his age in Ethiopia.

But in only his second meet on Tuesday, Davis showed he may be among the fastest middle distance runners in the Penobscot Valley Conference as he won the 800-meter run in 2 minutes, 10.99 seconds, helping Brewer win at the Pendleton Street track by a large margin. The Witches rolled up 163 points while Old Town totaled 66, Bucksport 27, and Narraguagus of Harrington 4.

In the girls meet, Brewer won with 135 points, Old Town took second with 72, Bucksport had 21 and Narraguagus had 28.

Davis bettered the 2:15 he ran at Thornton Academy in Saco last Thursday where he took second to teammate Jamie Wilkinson. This week, after trailing Wilkinson by five yards for most of the race, Davis took the lead off the last turn and powered ahead of his teammate in the last 50 meters to win by a second.

“He [Wilkinson] beat me in the first meet,” Davis said. `I just thought, `I’ve got to beat him.’ I thought, `I’m going to win.’ ”

Davis’ passion to dominate on the track is as new as his success. He never planned to run track when he started high school because he never thought of himself as fast.

“I use to be wicked slow in Africa, but that was a long time ago,” Davis said. “I lived on my own and ran around with kids in the street. They were all faster than me. I didn’t want to do track. I like it now.”

What changed Davis’ mind was a lot of support: an adopted mother’s persuasiveness, a track coach’s encouragement and a new-found role model.

“I could tell he’d be fast just watching him run around here,” Kay Davis said from her home. “I told [Brewer coach] Dave Jeffrey, `I think this one will be good if you can twist his arm a little bit.’ ”

Jeffrey said Davis came to him two months before the start of outdoor track and Jeffrey talked to him throughout the season.

To keep him interested, Kay Davis took her adopted son to a University of Maine outdoor track meet where he watched Dereck Treadwell win the 800 and mile.

“I watched the runners at the university,” Davis said. “I saw Dereck Treadwell win the 800 and 1600. He’s good, he’s the best. I want to be like him. He told me he thinks I could be in the Olympics.”

While Jeffrey said Davis is off to a good start, the Brewer coach said his untested freshman talent is only beginning to show his potential.

“I assume he’ll continue to run faster,” Jeffrey laughed. “I hope this isn’t it. I wanted for him to do indoor track, but he missed the call and got lost. There’s some language barriers. But he’s some talent. He’s so young, so raw.”

Davis said, while track is still two meets new to him, he’s confident he’ll get faster.

In the boys meet, senior Matt Moore helped to power the Witches to the victory with a dominant first-place finish in both the mile and 3,200 as he notched times of 4:50.58 and 10:44.4, respectively.

Moore, who didn’t run his sophomore or junior year to train for marathons on his own, took fifth in the mile at the indoor state meet, but expects after his showing Tuesday that his time in the mile will drop.

“I expect to run a 4:40 next. With more training, it should come down,” Moore said after winning by 10 seconds in the event.

Brewer senior Peter Phelan could be considered the meet’s Most Impressive Performer as he won four events. He captured the 110 hurdles in 15.55, the long jump in 20 feet, 7 inches, the triple jump in 44-1, and the 300 intermediate hurdles in 41.10.

In the girls meet, Brewer was led by freshman Jen Puiia who won the high jump in 4-8, the long jump in 15-9 1/2, and anchored the 1600 relay team to a 4:35.4 winning time.