ARCADIA — The Arcadia Invitational is where many of the best high school track & field athletes compete and bring out the best in each other. The 57th edition Saturday saw exciting races as well as a national record and a state record set.

The national record was in the girls 2-mile invitational. Jane Hedengren from Timpville High in Utah finished in a time of 9 minutes, 34.12 seconds, smashing the previous record of 9:41.76 set last June by Allie Zealand.

Hedengren led the race from start to finish and got faster as each lap progressed.

“All I kept hearing was Jane Hedengren,” said Arcadia junior Charlotte Hopkins, who finished 10th in the race. “I couldn’t even see her. It was crazy. She was just super-far ahead.”

The state record came in the boys 4×100-meter relay. Servite ran 40.00 seconds. That’s also a meet record and the national leading time this season. The team consisted of just freshmen and sophomores.

San Gabriel Valley athletes also got to showcase their talents with personal bests being set.

La Serna senior Grant Miller finished third in the boys 3,200-meter rated race in a personal best time of 8:59.02. It was his first time finishing sub-9.

“I think I could’ve gone a little faster,” Miller said. “Mentally it’s pretty hard because you’re running eight laps. Once it starts to hurt it hurts physically and mentally. Hopefully, I can get my time down a couple more seconds but overall I’m really happy.”

Miller led the race for the first mile before falling back into eighth place with 800 meters left. His kick in the last lap propelled him to third.

“I trusted my kick so I wasn’t too nervous,” Miller said. “The last lap I gave it all I had.”

Glendora senior Dylan Flores finished 13th in the same race with a time of 9:02.73.

South Pasadena senior Abigail Errington finished ninth in the girls 2-mile invitational right ahead of Hopkins. Errington ran a personal best time of 10:09.37 while Hopkins finished in 10:11.54, also a personal best.

Errington, who will run for Princeton University next year, sat back before picking up the pace to finish ninth. She said she had to be patient and relax.

“As I caught more people, I thought maybe this was the right move,” she said of being patient and starting toward the back of the pack. “As the race went on, I got more and more confident but at the beginning I was a little scared.”

Hopkins said racing on her home track was a big motivator.

“I could hear everybody’s voices — my teammates, my coaches,” Hopkins said. “It kind of made me feel like I wasn’t just doing this for myself but for the Arcadia community in general.”

South Pasadena sophomore sensation Michael Scarince ran a personal best 4:17.07 in the Rising Stars 1-mile race to finish fourth. The race featured some of the swiftest freshmen and sophomore middle distance runners in the country.

“Tired,” a happy Scarince said after the race when asked how he felt. “We went out blazing. I didn’t think it’d be that fast.”

Scarince was patient as he ended the first of four laps in 11th place in the back of the pack. He sat back there until after the half-mile mark when he made a push toward the front. Scarince was fifth with one lap to go before kicking and finishing fourth.

“I saw we came through (the first lap) at 61 (seconds) and I knew no one here was going 4:04,” Scarine said. “So I kind of (stayed back) until the third lap then I tried to make my move.”

Mayfield’s Monika Vargas made the most of her first at the Arcadia Invite. The Cornell University-bound senior finished eighth in the 100 hurdles invitational race in a time of 14.26. She also finished eighth in the 300 hurdles open race.

Vargas just started running two years ago and said she battled injuries until this season. She said just competing at the meet was an accomplishment for her.

“These girls all so extremely talented and they all worked just as hard as I’ve worked to get here,” Vargas said. “I didn’t get the result that I wanted initially. It wasn’t my (personal record) but just being under that amount of pressure and still being able to execute was good enough for me. It’s amazing to be here.”

Vargas’ personal best in the 100 hurdles is 14.06, set earlier this season at the Nike Redondo meet. Her goal, though, by the season’s end is to run 13.5 seconds.

“It sounds like a big leap but we have a lot of work to do,” she said.

Other local athletes who competed included Walnut’s Nylah Key. She won the open long jump competition with a leap of 18 feet, 6 inches. La Canada’s Katie McGuiness finished second in 18-5. McGuiness also finished 18th in the invitational high jump with a leap of 5-0.

Glendora’s Kevin Sandoval finished third in the 1-mile open race with a time of 4:12.65. Arcadia’s Reena Hsieh finished 10th in the girls seeded 1-mile race in a time of 5:05.03. Nickolas Tamayo of Walnut finished sixth in the open shot competition with a throw of 53-8.