Roxbury, Mass. – The Le Moyne College men's and women's track teams each registered eight points at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships on Thursday and Friday afternoon at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.
The women placed ninth with their eight points. The men placed 10th with their eight points.
Southern Connecticut State University claimed its fourth consecutive men's championship with 242.5 points. Stonehill College won the women's championship for the seventh straight year with 152.5 points.
Freshman
Chloe Hanson (Saugerties, N.Y./Saugerties) led the Dolphins by scoring in three events. She earned two points individually by placing seventh in the 800-meter run in 2:21.67.
Hanson teamed with sophomore
Samantha Pellegrini (Loudonville, N.Y./Colonie), freshman
Cleo Baker (Painted Post, N.Y./Corning-Painted Post) and junior
Haleigh Pascual (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) in the 4x800-meter relay to place sixth with a time of 9:59.41.
The distance medley relay of Pellegrini, Baker, Hanson and freshman
Catherine Durant (Arverne, N.Y./Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School) placed eighth in 13:04.14.
Freshman
Julianna Szczech (Camillus, N.Y./Marcellus) collected two points with a seventh-place finish in the pole vault with a program-record height of eight-feet, 10.25-inches.
Freshman
Lennah Abraham (Syracuse, N.Y./Westhill) placed ninth in the weight throw with a program-record distance of 41-feet, 6-inches.
On the men's side, the Dolphins, in particular sophomore
Kenny Barrett (Lagrangeville, N.Y./Lady of Lourdes), scored in all three relays. On Thursday, the distance medley relay quartet of Barrett, classmate
Jacob Schmid (Ontario, N.Y./Wayne) and freshmen
Christian Carlin-Saracene (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) and
Benjamin Dertinger (Webster, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) posted Le Moyne's best finish of the championship with a time of 10:36.46 to place fifth.
Barrett, Carlin-Saracene and Dertinger teamed with sophomore
Paul Stannard (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) in the 4x800-meter relay to place sixth in a program-record 8:05.92.
Barrett scored in his third event, including second straight, by teaming with Schmid, junior
Jordan Devereaux (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) and sophomore
Kyle VanCoughnett (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Arlington) in the 4x400-meter relay, where they placed eighth in 3:28.67, the fastest time by a Dolphin quartet this year.
Dertinger registered the men's team best individual finish on the track by placing ninth in the one-mile run in 4:28.81, the second-fastest time of his career.
Sophomore
William Bilow (Chasm Falls, N.Y./Franklin) placed ninth in the high jump by clearing the bar at five-feet, 11.25-inches.