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AUGUSTA — B.L. Lippert will entertain plenty from one of the best quarterbacks Cony High School has ever had. Parker Morin’s thoughts on breakfast, though? His coach draws the line there.

When Lippert, Cony’s football coach since 2015, asked Morin to rank his top-10 breakfast foods, the senior included orange juice. When Lippert responded that OJ was a beverage rather than a food, Morin quipped that you could consume it out of a bowl if you’d like. Lippert couldn’t convince him otherwise.

“You can find yourself in 20-minute conversations with Parker about things that are mystifying to the average person,” Lippert said. “He’s someone we’re going to miss not just because he’s a great player but because he’s just a lot of fun to be around. … The three years (with him) flew by.”

From his personality to his performances, Morin has been a defining figure of high school sports in central Maine in recent years. Now, a three-sport athlete who has dominated and adapted as a senior is closing out his time at Cony as the baseball season nears an end.

Since being named Cony’s athletic director in the fall of 2022, TJ Maines has been up close for just about every high school sporting event in the capital city. Maines, who was Cony’s boys basketball coach from 2013-22, called Morin “an all-time great” at the school.

Maines recalled a golf outing 10 years ago with Morin’s father, Robbie, in which the younger Morin tagged along and showed off a swing that should have been beyond an 8-year-old. Then, there was the time a fifth-grade Morin stunned Maines at a basketball camp.

“He was the best player by quite a bit, and he came up to me and said, ‘Coach Maines, I think I should be playing with the older kids; I’m too good,’” Maines said. “It was unbelievable for a fifth-grader to have that kind of confidence, and he probably wasn’t wrong. He’s always been a good athlete and a great teammate.”

Morin, the winningest quarterback in Cony history at 21-9, was a Fitzpatrick Trophy finalist this season after throwing for 2,703 yards and 36 touchdowns while leading the Rams to the Class B state final. He was also a Mr. Maine Basketball semifinalist, helping Cony go 18-3 and reach the Class B North championship game.

Yet Morin has always been a baseball player first, and this spring, he has been at his best on the diamond. Through 12 games, he’s batting .634 (26 of 41) with seven home runs, six doubles and 36 RBI for the Rams, who are one of Class B North’s top teams at 10-2.

“It’s been an awesome year all-around,” Morin said. “We’ve had three great teams, and I couldn’t ask for anything more than to be part of them. … Baseball is my last sport at Cony, so I’m just trying to work as hard as I can and play the best that I can.”

Morin has been a focal point of every Cony team since missing all of football and most of basketball freshman year because of an injury. Yet when Cony basketball brought Carter Brathwaite into the fold this year, Morin allowed the freshman phenom to take over as the No. 1 option, which impressed coach Isaiah Brathwaite.

“He put the team above himself, and to be able to do that says a lot about you,” Brathwaite said. “I think it spoke volumes to other players on the team to see a guy who was our top dog being willing to set that aside so we could go places. … We wouldn’t have gotten as far as we did without him doing that.”

Morin comes from a family of athletes. Robbie Morin was a basketball star at Hall-Dale, setting a tournament record for 3-pointers in a game with 10 in 1990. Morin’s older brother, Conor, was the 2023 New England outdoor track and field triple jump champion at Cony and now stars for UMaine.

That upbringing helped shape Morin, as did a different approach to sports. Travel leagues are all the rage these days, but Morin has largely eschewed that model, playing no travel baseball and only a bit of travel basketball in the past.

“It’s almost an old-school way of doing it,” Lippert said. “Nowadays, you’ve got kids traveling all over the country and playing tens of thousands of dollars to play baseball, and with him, he’s focusing on whatever is in season. He’s a homebody — he plays with his buddies — and he’s won a lot of games.”

Morin, Lippert said, has an aptitude of understanding sports that’s exceptionally rare. That was evident in how he commanded a Cony offense with countless formations, plays and pre-snap motions to a 10-1 season (the winningest in program history) in which the Rams averaged 47.3 points per game.

Maines, meanwhile, raves about Morin’s athleticism and the way his movements are always remarkably fluid and never wasted. For Cony baseball coach Don Plourde, it’s Morin’s work ethic that stands out — a work ethic that’s on display long after the game is over.

“We had a game (last Wednesday against Erskine Academy), and after the game, he and another teammate were out here two hours later still getting work in,” Plourde said. “He leads by example, and he’s a lot of fun to coach and a lot of fun to be around.”

Morin will attend Florida Gulf Coast University next year to study physical therapy. The senior, who has family in the Fort Myers area and “fell in love” with the campus after touring it two years ago, plans to play club baseball or possibly walk onto the varsity team.

First, though, comes one last playoff run at Cony. Morin’s teams have come close to going all the way twice this year, losing in the Class B state title game in football and the North final in basketball. A state championship would mean the world, but Morin also doesn’t want that to be his lasting impact.

“It’d be awesome — I’ve been pretty close in recent years — but that’s not how I define our teams; I define our teams by how hard we work and what we can accomplish,” Morin said. “It’s about the journey, because without the journey, you can’t get to the destination.”