Northampton, Mass. – The Le Moyne College men's and women's track teams each recorded their highest points totals as part of 12 program records at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships on Saturday and Sunday afternoon at Smith College's Indoor Track and Tennis Facility.
The men placed a program-best eighth with a program-record 20 points. The women placed 12th with a program record-tying 14 points.
Southern Connecticut State University captured its second straight men's championship with 189 points. Stonehill College won the women's championship for the fifth straight year with 165 points.
Sophomore
Chris Davitt (Delmar, N.Y./Bethlehem) recorded a fourth-place finish in the 3000-meter run in a program-best time of 8:37.00 to earn five points. His previous program record of 8:48.86 was set three weeks ago at Brockport.
Senior
Sean Beney (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) registered a program-record time of 15:05.77 in the 5000-meter run to finish in fourth place and pick up five points for the Dolphins. He held the previous program record of 15:12.28, which he set at last year's NE10 Championship.
Senior
Matthew Civilette (Fredonia, N.Y./Fredonia) completed his indoor career by earning five points over the two horizontal jumping events. He registered a program-record leap of 21-feet, 7.25-inches in the long jump on Saturday to place sixth and earn three points. The distance is 5.25 inches better than the previous record, which he set last Saturday at Colgate. On Sunday, he posted a mark of 43-feet, 9-inches, the second-best in the program's history, in the triple jump to finish seventh and collect two points.
Davitt teamed with juniors
Griffin Klein (Fair Haven, N.Y./Red Creek) and
Mahamadou Jagana (Bronx, N.Y./DeWitt Clinton) and freshman
Jordan Devereaux (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) to register a sixth-place finish in the distance medley relay with a program-record time of 10:21.46. The previous record of 10:47.47 was set at the NE10 Championship on February 21, 2015.
The quartet of Klein, Jagana, Devereaux and freshman
Nathaniel Brands (Glenmont, N.Y./Bethlehem) earned one point by placing eighth in the 4x400-meter relay with a program-record time of 3:29.03. The previous record of 3:32.95 was set last Saturday at Colgate.
The team of junior
Hamza Elhabbal (Fayetteville, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius), freshman
Nicholas Kattato (Cold Brook, N.Y./Poland), senior
Kevin O'Connor (Hopewell Junction, N.Y./John Jay) and sophomore
Nick Taylor (Endicott, N.Y./Maine-Endwell) placed eighth in the 4x800-meter relay in 8:32.43.
On the women's side, junior
Bethia Nivens (Latham, N.Y./Shaker) registered a fifth-place finish in the 400-meter dash in a program-record 58.89 seconds to earn four points. She set the previous record of 1:00.14 at Utica on February 6, 2016.
The quartet of Nivens, freshman
Haleigh Pascual (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius), sophomore
Jordan Sloan (Central Square, N.Y./Bishop Grimes) and junior
Brittney Mack (Poestenkill, N.Y./Averill Park) recorded a program-best time of 12:44.05 in the distance medley relay to place fourth. The previous record of 13:25.83 was set at Brockport on January 23, 2015.
The team of Nivens, Pasqual, Mack and freshman
Caroline St. Antoine (Longueuil, Québec/Cégep Édouard-Montpetit) placed fourth in the 4x800-meter relay in a program-record 9:55.82. The previous best time in the event of 10:21.18 came at the 2016 NE10 Championship.
Senior
Meg Hubregsen (Honeoye Falls, N.Y./Honeoye Falls-Lima) collected a program-record 2385 points in the pentathlon to finish in 10th place. Her previous record of 2308 points came three weeks ago at Brockport.
The Dolphins open the outdoor season at the Hamilton College Invitational on Saturday, April 7.