OAKLAND — Even a day when he wasn’t at full strength yielded multiple championships for Billy Albertson. The senior admitted he’s still recovering from a pulled calf muscle he suffered two weeks ago at Nokomis. It limited him Saturday, but Albertson still won three Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Large School titles and even set a meet record in one.

“This is really my first day since then going full speed,” Albertson said. “It wasn’t the best, but I’m hard on myself. I think when I look at it, winning three events when it’s my first really back at 100 percent, I am happy with my performance for sure.

” Albertson’s efforts were part of a day that saw central Maine athletes claim a number of championships at Messalonskee High School. Eight local performers garnered first-place medals across as many events ahead of next week’s Class A and Class B state championship meets at Thornton Academy and Old Town High School, respectively. Mt.

Ararat won the boys championship, racking up 172 points to Lewiston’s 152 to dethrone Brunswick as conference champ and win its third conference title in the past four years. Brunswick repeated on the girls side, earning 148 points to Mt. Ararat’s 124 to notch back-to-back titles.

Albertson set a KVAC Large School meet record in the long jump, recording a distance of 22 feet, 9 inches to break the old mark — which he set himself last year — by an inch. He also won the triple jump with a distance of 43-10 and the 1.