Westerly’s Springer now the nation’s best one-mile runner 08:56 AM EDT on Monday, June 15, 2009 By PAUL DAVIS Journal Staff Writer Andrew Springer set a state record earlier this month in the boys 1,500-meter at the state championships, but he saved his most spectacular performance yet for Saturday in Illinois. Journal photo / Kathy Borchers Mix the Flash and the Road Runner, and what do you get? Westerly track star Andrew Springer, the fastest high school one-mile runner in the United States this year. On Saturday, Springer ran the boys mile in 4 minutes, 2.70 seconds at the Midwest Distance Gala, in Lisle, Ill. The Westerly High School senior not only bettered his own his own state-record time of 4:08.79, but set a New England record as well. (Last year’s winner beat Springer’s time by less than two seconds.) As a result of Saturday’s race, the Georgetown University-bound senior stands as the 14th-best all-time high school mile performer, as rated by Track & Field News. He gets it honestly. His older twin brothers, Dan and Josh, ran at Westerly High School and then Boston College. As a youngster, Springer ran at Misquamicut in quarter-mile “fun runs” held every week in the summer. “By middle school he was running pretty seriously,” his father, Roy, said Sunday.