Meet: America East Indoor Championships
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Location: The TRACK at New Balance in Boston, Mass.
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Results
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Scoring: 1. UMass Lowell, 185.50; 2. UAlbany, 131; 3. Binghamton, 101; 4. Maine, 87; 5. UMBC, 69; 6. Bryant, 68; 7. NJIT, 51; 8. New Hampshire, 49; 9. Vermont, 35.50
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Short Story: Travis Williams breaks two championship meet records to pace the men's track & field program to a second-place finish at the America East Indoor Championships.
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Track Events
- Gio Henry placed fifth in the 800m in a personal-best 1:55.09; Gia Henry placed eighth in 1:55.25.
- Travis Williams won the 60m in 6.64; Garry Munro placed fourth in 6.92, and Lucas Casab placed seventh in 7.20.
- Antwone Messado repeated as champion in the 60m hurdles, finishing in 8.23; Kendall Mariacher placed seventh in 8.91.
- Nicardo Blake placed second in the 400m in 48.01.
- Julio Martinez placed eighth in the 500m in 1:06.15.
- Gio Henry placed second in the 1,000m in 2:29.92; Antonio Beltran placed fifth in 2:30.50.
- Williams won the 200m in a personal-best 20.89.
- The men's 4x800m relay of Lenny Diaz (2:01.98), Gia. Henry (1:58.06), Gio. Henry (1:54.64), and KJ Dawkins (1:58.15) placed fifth in 7:52.80.
- The men's 4x400m relay team of MarcSean Montero (50.10), Martinez (49.16), Quincy Chery (50.13), and Blake (49.53) placed sixth in 3:18.87.
Field Events
- Pete Meehan placed eighth in the heptathlon, scoring 4,102 points.
- Ja'Lil Reynolds placed second in the high jump, clearing 6-07.00; Stephan Farquharson placed fifth clearing 6-05.00 and matching his personal best.
- Travis Robinson repeated as champion in the shot put with a mark of 53-08.50.
- Isaiah Allen placed sixth in the triple jump in 45-10.75; Tyler Charles placed seventh in 45-09.25, and Farquharson placed eighth in 44-09.50.
Meet Notes
- Travis Williams was named Most Outstanding Track Performer, and shared the Coaches' Award for highest individual scorer with NJIT's Jacob Leigh.
- Pete Meehan set a personal best in the 60m hurdles of 8.78 during his heptathlon.
- Williams broke the America East Indoor championship meet record in the 60m, surpassing the previous mark of 6.75 set in 2017 by Binghamton's Jon Alkins.
- Williams broke the indoor program and America East Indoor championship meet record in the 200m of 20.98 set in 2020 by Jan Michael Gutierrez Almedina. He also surpasses the outdoor program record of 21.10 set in 2022 by teammate Garry Munro, and the program's all-conditions record of 20.95w set outdoors in 2019 by Gutierrez Almedina. Williams is just the second individual in program history to break 21 seconds in the 200m.
- The women's team placed second overall by half a point, scoring 196 points and winning seven events.Â
Next: Select Great Danes will compete at Boston University's Last Chance Meet on February 26.
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