Roxbury, Mass. – Following the first day of the Northeast-10 Conference Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center, the Le Moyne College men's indoor track and field team is in eighth place and the women's team sits in 11th place.

Head coach Robin Wheeless had this to say after the competition…"Christian Carlin-Saracene broke our school record in the 800 meter trials, improving his personal best by over three seconds and taking almost two full seconds off the old record held by Griffin Klein. Kenny Barrett came close to breaking the record again in the very next heat. Both will be racing tomorrow in the finals of the 800. Julianna Szczech placed 5th in the pole vault. Madison Kozyra and Will Bilow both finished 7th. Madison in the weight throw and Will in the high jump. Nick Hafner is currently in 3rd after day one of the heptathlon. On day two he'll need to deal with the pole vault but the hurdles and 1000 are two of his better events. It should be an exciting day tomorrow."

In the men's 800-meter run trials, junior Christian Carlin-Saracene (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) broke the program record with a time of 1:56.52 in the first heat to earn one of two at-large spots in the finals. The previous record of 1:58.3 was set by Griffin Klein on January 12, 2019 at Franklin & Marshall. In heat two, senior Kenny Barrett (Lagrangeville, N.Y./Our Lady of Lourdes) earned a spot in the finals by placing second in the heat with a time of 1:57.02, which is also faster than Klein's previous program record.

Through four events of the heptathlon, junior Nicholas Hafner (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg) is in third place with 2482 points. He finished fourth in the 60-meter dash (7.54 seconds, 700 points), second in the high jump (5' 11.50", 644 points), fifth in the long jump (20' 2.5", 621 points) and sixth in the shot put (34' 6.25", 517 points).
 
Senior William Bilow (Chasm Falls, N.Y./Franklin) placed seventh in the high jump by clearing the bar at 6-feet, 1.25-inches.
 
On the women's side, unior Julianna Szczech (Camillus, N.Y./Marcellus) finished in fifth place in the pole vault by clearing the bar at 9-feet, 2.25-inches.

Redshirt freshman Madison Kozyra (Marcy, N.Y./Whitesboro) placed seventh in the weight throw with a distance of 43-feet, 5.25-inches.

The final day of the Championships gets underway on Friday at 11:00 a.m.