EUGENE — Marshfield’s boys and girls track and field teams gave retiring coach Fran Worthen an emotional send-off Saturday as the Pirates won the first boys team title in school history and Fran’s daughter, Ali, won two more individual state titles to lift Marshfield to the third-place trophy.

To top it off, in honor of her retirement, Fran Worthen was recognized before the first running event in a special tribute with fellow teammates from the 1972 Marshfield girls state champion squad.

“I’m just going to remember this one, amazing day,” Fran Worthen said.

Marshfield’s boys only had three athletes competing Saturday. They got a second-place finish by Jared Bassett in the 1,500 and a pair of fourth-place efforts in the hurdles races from Caleb Kruse. Bo Cutting finished ninth in the shot put, just out of placing, but the points Bassett and Kruse earned, combined with what they had earned earlier in the meet, gave Marshfield 49 points and an 11-point victory over runner-up Wilsonville in the balanced team race.

“It’s amazing,” Worthen said. “We’re celebrating the 100th year of our team this year. I thought that was the biggest thing we’d celebrate. Then we won the first team title. Our men did a great job.”

Ali Worthen, too, did a great job, adding titles in the long jump and 300-meter hurdles to her Friday victory in the high jump. She also placed second in the 100-meter hurdles and received a plaque for scoring the most points among Class 5A girls.

“I’m ecstatic,” the Marshfield senior said. “I didn’t do as well as I wanted in the high hurdles. I think I had the best state meet I could possibly have beside that.”

Worthen leaped 17 feet, 111⁄2 inches to win the long jump and ran a personal-best time of 44.46 seconds in the intermediate hurdles. In the 100-meter hurdles, Worthen was timed in 15.07 seconds, not fast enough to beat Liberty’s Olivia Ferrar, who crossed the line in 14.78.

“I know I can run faster,” Worthen said. “I think that’s what’s so frustrating for me.

“I ran what I ran. She just ran a better race than me. That’s good for her.”

Bassett had no regrets about his race, despite finishing runner up to Ashland’s Matt Miner for the second time in three days.

The two staged a great battle in the 1,500, just as they had in the 3,000 on Friday, with Miner leading a frantic sprint on the final lap. Bassett almost caught up in the last 50 yards, but Miner held on for the win in 3 minutes, 55.17 seconds. Bassett was timed in 3:55.28.

“I surged a little bit and I almost caught him,” Bassett said. “I didn’t have enough to get past him.”

Bassett had led earlier in the race, forcing a fast pace.

“My plan was to go out and hammer it and try to take the kick out of everybody’s legs,” he said.

It almost worked.

“He ran an awesome race,” Miner said. “He pushed it and he went for it. That takes guts galore.”

Both Bassett and Miner wore big smiles after the race, especially after setting personal bests — Bassett by a whopping six seconds.

“That was a great race for my last one,” Bassett said. “I’ll take that time any day.”

Kruse had hopes for a title in one of the two hurdles races, but had to settle for his fourth-place finishes.

In the high hurdles, Crook County’s Mark Flegel won with a time of 15.20, while Kruse was fourth in 15.58. Jefferson’s Wayne Forthan won the intermediate hurdles in 39.06. Kruse crossed the line in 41.19.

“We have some stuff to work on,” said Kruse, a junior. “I’ll be  back next year.”

The five points Kruse earned in the latter event essentially clinched the team title for Marshfield.

“I didn’t do as well as I thought,” he said. “I am completely 100 percent happy for our whole team.”

He said the team’s success started building at the district meet and continued at state.

“We’re just happy,” Kruse said.

Earlier in the meet, Kruse finished second in the triple jump, while Greg Eckes won the pole vault, and Will Messerle was fourth in the javelin.

All of those finishes were more than enough for the team title.

“We did it,” Bassett said as he clutched the trophy. “It’s pretty amazing.

“I’ve always wanted to be part of a championship team.”

Marshfield’s girls, meanwhile, finished third with 51 points. They knew all along the title was out of reach with the firepower of Summit, which ended up scoring more than runner-up Thurston and Marshfield combined.

Kellie Schuler repeated as champion of the 100, 200 and 400 — breaking all the meet records she set as a freshman last year — and anchored Summit’s 4x400-meter relay to the title as the Storm rolled up 112 points for the week. Teammate Alyssa O’Connor added the 1,500-meter title to her win in the 800 and Summit had three more second-place efforts on the final day.

Thurston had 55.5 points to finish second in the team race.

Marshfield’s points came from three athletes — Ali Worthen, pole vault champion Moriah Roberge, and Hannah Francis, who took sixth in the discus.

Worthen, who was part of a state champion team as a freshman, was happy Marshfield earned its third girls trophy in four years.

“I feel really good about it,” she said.

Long before she was holding the team trophies, Fran Worthen was holding a huge bouquet of flowers on the awards podium after she was recognized along with members of the team she led to the state championship during her senior year in 1972.

Eight of her high school teammates, as well as her college coach, Mike Hodges, and one of the men who ran on a relay with her at Southwestern Oregon Community College, were present for the occasion.

“I thought I was living a dream,” she said. “It was so surreal to me. I was swept away by it.”

Marshfield got plenty of support Saturday from its own fans, as well as from those at North Bend, whose boys came up just short of matching the Pirates as team champions.

“I’m real happy for Marshfield and Fran,” said North Bend coach Steve Greif, a classmate of Worthen through eighth grade at Coos Catholic while the two were growing up in the Bay Area.