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BANGOR — It took 35 years for the Mount View wrestling team to win its first regional championship.

Saturday, the Mustangs achieved another first: Back-to-back regional crowns.

Mount View put forth a dominant effort, scoring 242 points to win its second straight Class B North championship at the Cross Insurance Center. The Mustangs were 69.5 points better than runner-up Dexter (172.5). Mattanawcook Academy (130) finished third.

“It feels amazing,” said Mount View senior Cooper Wren, who won an individual title at 175 pounds. “(It shows) all the hard work we put in this season and out of season.”

Edward Little (203 points) also had a strong day, capturing the Class A North championship. The Red Eddies had three individual champions — Cooper Blair (132 pounds), Evan Madigan (144) and Merlin Smith (215) — and finished well ahead of Oxford Hills (154) and Mt. Blue (132).

“We’ve been working hard all year for this,” said Madigan, who beat AJ Ward of Mt. Ararat/Brunswick in the championship round for the 144-pound title. “We’ve gotten second a few times in some tournaments, and we’ve been pushing every day to get better.”

“It’s about time that we did that, we needed that (win),” added Blair.

It’s been a season of continued progress for Edward Little, which finished eighth at the Class A championship last year. The Red Eddies placed second in Class A at the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference championships two weeks ago at Cony High School in Augusta, 20 points behind champion Oxford Hills, but they comfortably reversed that result Saturday.

“The kids have worked tremendously hard this year,” said Edward Little coach Ben Madigan. “It’s a good confidence boost for us and sets us up well for next week at states. I knew we had a chance (entering the year), just knowing the makeup of the team. Once we were in the room in the preseason, just seeing how intense these kids practice every day, I started to really feel like we could do it.”

Mount View entered the championship round in with a 100-point lead, as nine grapplers advanced to the championship round out of 14 weight classes. The Mustangs had two champions in Wren — who beat Zephyr Nelson of Washington Academy 24-11 in the championship round — and freshman Gavin Milliken (106 pounds), who held on for an 8-7 victory over Memphis Cole of Dexter.

“The kids really stepped up today and wrestled well,” said Hamilton Richards, who is in his 31st year as head coach at Mount View. “We’ve got some things to work on (for states), but they wrestled hard and worked hard, and here we are.”

The Mustangs rebounded from a self-described poor performance at the duals state championship meet last weekend at Fryeburg Academy.

“We had to build the team morale up more,” said Wren. “Everyone was pretty down in the dumps. We had a team meeting, a little heart-to-heart (discussion), and figured stuff out.”

“(The upperclassmen) really got the team to step up,” added Richards. “Plus, we had the whole lineup (healthy) today, which made a big difference. We were kind of dinged up going into duals states, but the kids are healthier and ready to go.”

In Class A, Camden Hills and Mt. Blue each had three individual champions. For the Windjammers, Angus Ward (106), Reilly Turner-Watts (150) and Justin Batty (175) earned titles. Preston Garland (113), Jace Goodrow (120) and Dillon Gray (157) were victorious for Mt. Blue.

Other Class A champions included Evan Kowalsky of Mt. Ararat/Brunswick (120), Sajjad Jumaah of Windham/Gray-New Gloucester/Westbrook (138), Henry Sites of Skowhegan (165), Liam Scheis-Hooyman of Cony (190) and Chris Levesque of Oxford Hills (285).

In Class B, Belfast had three individual champions in Dominic Simpson (120), Noah Parenteau (138) and Mythias Travis (144). Mattanawcook Academy (Clayton McPheters at 113, Max Fitch and 215) and Dexter (Matthew Severance at 132, Damiair Miller at 165) both had two champions.

Other Class B champions were Asher Bishop of Woodland (126), Brock Gagnon of Caribou (150), Joe Desjardins of Fort Kent (157), Muiin Cook of Maine Central Institute (190) and Hayden Melvin of Washington Academy (285).

Multiple wrestlers hit career milestones, most notably Madigan and Simpson, who both reached 150 victories.