JOHNSTOWN — The Forest Hills girls track and field team built on a perfect regular season with a history-making performance on Thursday at Trojan Stadium.

The Rangers used a solid all-around effort to handily win the Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference Meet championship for the first time in school history.

“It’s amazing,” Forest Hills coach Tom Hunter said. “All year long the girls kept improving. We’ve got some good depth and that’s combined with good leadership, and both were evident (Thursday). Our girls kept doing what they’ve been doing all year long. We’ve had solid performances from everybody and no big letdowns. We have some standout performers, but this was a team effort from everybody.”

Forest Hills finished with 1471/2 points, 371/2 more than runner-up Richland. Central Cambria (93), Bedford (89) and Somerset (54) rounded out the top five.

“We won the regular-season title, and a lot of times the team that wins the outright title doesn’t come and win this meet,” said Hunter, whose Rangers went 12-0 during the dual-meet season, including 11-0 in the LHAC.

Forest Hills junior distance runner Leah Anne Wirfel was a double winner in the 1600 (5:18.7) and 3200 (11:23). Becky Bard won the 200 (27.0) and anchored the Rangers’ winning 1600 relay squad (4:11.6) that also included Briana Kostan, Anne Weyandt and Casey Gallaher.

“All of our girls did their very best, and this is the first time in school history that we’ve won the Laurel Highlands,” said Wirfel, a two-time conference winner in the 3200. “We’re just really happy that we could all come together and win this meet. Everyone just did better than they had done before.”

Despite an injury to her throwing arm suffered during the May 7 West Central Coaches Meet, Bedford’s Crystal Dibert produced meet record-breaking distances with a 39-6 shot put (Karlee McQuillen, Westmont, 37-8, 2005) and a 122-21/2 in the discus (Kelly Britcher, Westmont, 114-6, 2006).

“I worked on technique all week because I couldn’t throw. It paid off,” said Dibert, a senior. “I was throwing javelin at the West Central Meet and it just popped on the one throw. I threw a little bit on Tuesday night, but I couldn’t throw hardly at all. I just worked on technique after that. (Thursday) the discus didn’t really hurt too much. But I threw the shot and I scratched my first time because it really hurt. I went to put the shot up the second time and I could feel my heart beat in my elbow. I didn’t know if I could throw again. I hit the record on my second throw. I guess God was on my side.”

Bedford junior Brittney Kidd had a record-breaking

10-6 pole vault (Whitney Hough, Westmont, 10-0, 2005, 2006), and Central Cambria senior Kelsey Seymour tied a LHAC mark with a 59.6 in the 400 (Nikki Piper, Central Cambria, 1999).

Seymour also was a winner in the 800 (2:22.6) and ran the final leg of the first-place 3200 relay squad with teammates Kendall Seymour, Ashley Stump and Anya Pennington.

“It’s exciting because it’s my last LHAC meet, and I wanted to leave with a good impression,” Kelsey Seymour said. “I wanted to have fun with my teammates for the last time in this meet.”

Kelsey Seymour was pushed in a tight 400 race. Forest Hills freshman Casey Gallaher (1:00.5) and Bishop Carroll senior Emily Waksmunski (1:01.1) were right behind.

“The 400 was definitely the big event because it was a stacked race,” Kelsey Seymour said. “Emily Waksmunski from Bishop Carroll is awesome. The freshman from Forest Hills, Casey Gallaher, and (Richland’s) Sam Mitchell. ... It was a competitive race.”

Richland sophomore Paige Lumley was a triple winner, claiming the 100 hurdles (16.5) and triple jump (33-5) while tying for first in the 300 hurdles (49.6) with Somerset’s Chasity Dupont.

Penn Cambria junior Jessica Delic won her third straight LHAC Meet crown in the javelin (125-7).

“She’s really trying to focus on being consistent so that she could make her way to states,” Penn Cambria coach Mike Soyka said. “State qualifying is 120, and she’s consistently thrown over that all year. She’s also been jumping over 16 feet in the long jump.”

A four-sport standout, Delic threw a career-best 135-9 at the prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia last month.

“She’s a hard worker. She never misses a track practice,” Soyka said. “She’s always working out doing what you ask her to do. This is her third straight. She likes to better herself.”

Other winners included the Johnstown 400 relay of Jenna Lindrose, Lovazia Henry, Tynesha Smith and Victoria Smothers (52.5), Cambria Heights’ Kristy Gwizdak in the 100 (13.4), Richland’s Aimee Trabold in the high jump (4-10) and Bishop McCort’s Shannon O’Reilly in the long jump (15-61/2).