Utica, N.Y. – The Le Moyne College women's indoor track and field team placed fifth at the Orange and Blue Invitational hosted by Utica University on Saturday at the Hutton Sports & Recreation Center. The men's team finished in ninth place.

"We had a lot of things go right," said head coach Robin Wheeless. "Lots of personal records and a couple school records. It was great to see the team pulling together, especially in the relays. Two of the highlights were Lilly Capria and Abby Seaman. They started the day finishing second and fourth in the triple jump. They followed that up by finishing first and second in the high jump with Lilly breaking her own high jump record."

"Our women's 4x200 team of Shaina Smith, Chelsea Dennison, Catherine "Cat" Durant and Cleo Baker ran one of the fastest times in school history to win the event. The men's 4x200 team of Brandon and Connor Scott, Christian Carlin-Saracene and Payton Hirsch crushed the school record by about a second and a half.  I saw two interesting things when I looked at these records. The first was that Brandon was on each of the top three 4x200 teams and Christian is now on the record-holding teams for the 4x200, 4x400 and 4x800."

"We have two more meets before the Conference Championship and our team is moving in the right direction."

Vassar won the women's team competition with 94 points. SUNY Oneonta tallied 86 points to place second and RPI was third with 74 points. After Alvernia in fourth place with 69 points, Le Moyne scored 57 points to finish fifth.

On the men's side, RPI registered 176 points to run away with the team competition. Utica was second with 99 points and SUNY Delhi was third with 77 points. Le Moyne collected 23 points to finish ninth.
 
Freshman Lilly Capria (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) placed first in the high jump by clearing the bar at a program-record height of 5-feet, 3.75-inches. She also finished second in the triple jump at 36-feet, 5.5-inches.

The quartet of senior Cleo Baker (Painted Post, N.Y./Corning-Painted Post), senior Catherine Durant (Arverne, N.Y./Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School), sophomore Chelsea Dennison (Cato, N.Y.), and senior Shaina Smith (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa) placed first in the Women's 4x200 with a time of 1:51.98.

Freshman Abigail Seaman (South Glens Falls) finished second in the high jump with a mark of 5-inches, 1.75-inches and fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 35-feet, 8-inches.

Baker finished fourth in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:28.36.

Smith finished fifth in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 10.38 seconds and 10th in the 60-meter dash in 8.44 seconds.

The quartet of sophomore Anita Jepchirchir (Eldoret, Kenya), by sophomore Hilda Kiprono (Eldoret, Kenya/Kapsabet Girls High School), redshirt sophomore Sophia Bisognano (Albany, N.Y./Colonie) and redshirt freshman Alexandra Jacob (North Syracuse, N.Y.) placed fifth in the 4x400 with a time of 4:43.92.

Redshirt sophomore Madison Kozyra (Marcy, N.Y./Whitesboro) finished sixth in the weight throw with a distance of 44-feet, 10.25-inches, the second-best mark in the program's history.

Bisognano finished 11th in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:33.06, while Jepchirchir finished 15th with a time of 2:36.92 and Kiprono finished 16th in 2:36.97.

On the men's side, senior Christian Carlin-Saracene (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) finished second in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:00.58, just 0.19 seconds behind first.

Senior Nicholas Hafner (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg) placed fifth in the high jump with a height of 5-feet, 9.25-inches, 11th in the 60-meter hurdles in 9.11 seconds and 16th in the long jump with a distance of 19-feet, 6.75-inches.

The quartet of freshman Payton Hirsch (Hamilton, N.Y./Morrisville-Eaton), sophomore Brandon Scott (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee), sophomore Connor Scott (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) and Carlin-Saracene placed fifth in the 4x200-meter relay with a program-record time of 1:34.54. The previous record of 1:36.1 was set at Utica last January by Hafner, Nolan Hillhouse, Brandon Scott and Dominic Abbott.

Hillhouse placed sixth in the triple jump with a distance of 41-feet, 4.5-inches and 14th in the Long Jump with 19-feet, 8.25-inches.

The team of junior Matt Bartolotta (Syracuse, N.Y./West Genesee), junior Alex Colonno (Glenmont, N.Y./Bethlehem), sophomore Evan Breitbeck (Cicero, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse), and sophomore Jacob Cottet (Syracuse, N.Y./Jamesville-DeWitt) placed eighth in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:51.48.
 
Brandon Scott finished eighth with a time of 52.25 seconds in the 400-meter dash to collect one point.

Connor Scott placed 10th with a time of 52.29 seconds in the 400-meter dash, while Hirsch finished 12th with a time of 53.45 seconds.
 
Breitbeck finished 15th in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:04.27, while Cottet finished 19th with a time of 2:05.42.
 
Sophomore Jack Gibson (Ilion, N.Y./Central Valley Academy) finished 20th in the 3000-meter run with a time of 9:36.98.
 
Junior Spencer Zeltmann (Adams Center, N.Y./South Jefferson) placed 12th in the triple jump with a mark of 39-feet, 11.5-inches and 21st in the Long Jump with 18-feet, 11.25-inches.
 
Junior Brandon Laribee (Rome, N.Y/Rome Free Academy) finished 15th in the shot put with a distance of 36-feet, 5.75-inchees. and twenty-eighth in the Men's Weight Throw with 30-feet, 11-inches.
 
The Dolphins will travel to Brockport on Friday for the Brockport Multi at the Special Events Recreation Center.