Saturday’s triple jump was one for the record books for Wiscasset High School’s Ayanna Main. A freshman, Main represented the Wolverines girls track team at this year’s Class C state track meet on June 6 hosted by Yarmouth High School.

Main placed in two of the three events she competed in taking fifth in the high jump and fourth in the triple jump. But what really put a smile on Main’s face was breaking the WHS record in the triple jump.

Main scored the only points for the Wolverines who went up against the best boy and girl athletes from Western and Eastern Conference high schools. The weather for Saturday’s meet was ideal — sunny and clear with only a light breeze to contend with.

Her morning started off with the high jump competition. On her first jump she easily cleared the bar at a height of 4’8.”

“I felt really confident after that,” she told the newspaper.

In the next round the bar was raised to 4’10.” Main said she was the first competitor called. “On my way over the bar I hit my hip and bruised it,” she said. She failed to clear the bar in her final two jumps.

Yarmouth’s Emma Egan won the event by clearing 5’5” and tying the state record.

Things didn’t go well for Main in her next event, the long jump. She reached a distance of 14’7.5” but finished far down in the field, 18th overall. The winning jump went to a girl from Washburn who jumped a distance of 17’9”.

With two events down that left only the triple jump.

“My goal was to hit my personal best,” she said.

On her first attempt she reached a distance of 33,’ her best jump of the season. She then broke the WHS record on her third and final jump at 34’1 and a quarter inches.

Seacoast Christian’s Kylene DeSmith had the winning triple jump of the day a distance of 37’1,” Boothbay Region’s Morgan Crocker placed second, 34’2,” Hannah Nightingale of Traip third, 34’1.5.” Just a quarter of an inch separated Nightingale from Main, who was fourth.

Main was ecstatic about breaking the WHS triple jump record that stood at 33’8” since 1982, when Lori Blake set the record at the Class C Regional meet.

Warren Cossette, her Wolverine track coach was pretty excited to see the record fall as well.

“The real funny part of the story is Main was lamenting that someday she wanted to break the school record. I said to her why wait, you might as well do it today! Just relax and go have fun.”

Main has now set her sights on breaking the WHS’s high jump record of 5’2.” She hopes to get a few pointers this summer by attending a track and field clinic hosted by Bowdoin College.

Cossette said he was also very proud of his three boys competing at the states on Saturday. Although none placed, all three achieved a personal best.

Sophomore Brandon Goud ran his best 1600-meter race finishing with a time of 4:50. To illustrate how tough the competition was, the winning time of 4:32.15 was a scant 7/10ths of a second better then the second place finisher. Both the one and two finishers were from Eastern conference schools. The third place finisher from Yarmouth finished two seconds behind them.

Wiscasset Sam Storer and Colin Viele hit their personal bests in the 400-meter race. The top finisher was a runner from Telstar who sprinted across the finish line with a time of 51.86.