Meet: America East Outdoor Championships
 
Location: University Field in Albany, N.Y.
 
Team Scores: 1. UMass Lowell, 198; 2. UAlbany, 158; 3. Binghamton, 104; 4. Maine, 99; 5. UMBC, 83; 6. Bryant, 61; 7. New Hampshire, 60; 8. NJIT, 54; 9. Vermont, 36
 
Results
 
Short Story: The UAlbany men's track & field program places second at the America East Outdoor Championships, scoring 158 points and winning six events.

Day One Recap
 
Track Events

• The men's 4x100m relay team of Mike Hermance III, Travis Williams, Easton Reagan, and Garry Munro placed first overall in 40.61.
• Brandon Garcia placed eighth in the 1,500m in 3:55.55.
• Antwone Messado won the 110m hurdles in 14.07; Kendall Mariacher placed seventh in 15.48.  All times were wind-aided.
• Gianni Henry placed third in the 800m in 1:51.57; Giovouni Henry placed fourth in 1:52.02, and KJ Dawkins placed fifth in an outdoor-best 1:52.13.
• T. Williams won the 100m in 10.22, tying his personal-best; S. Williams placed sixth in 10.69, and Hermance III placed seventh in a personal-best 10.71.
• Reagan placed second in the 400m hurdles in 52.34; Jack Gallagher placed fifth in a personal-best 54.43, and Quincy Chery placed seventh in a personal-best 54.75.
• T. Williams won the 200m in 21.18; Hermance III placed seventh in 28.27.
• The men's 4x800m relay team of Antonio Beltran (1:55.44), Dawkins (1:52.17), Rogalski (1:54.18), and Gia. Henry (1:49.74) placed first overall in 7:31.52.
• The men's 4x400m relay team of John Fermpong, Julio Martinez, Gio. Henry, and Reagan placed fourth in 3:15.00.

Field Events

• Alex Saltsman placed eighth in the shot put in a personal-best 47-03.75.
• Louis Gordon placed third in the high jump, clearing 6-07.50; Ja'Lil Reynolds placed fourth, also clearing 6-07.50, an outdoor-best, and Stephan Farquharson placed sixth, clearing a personal-best 6-05.50.
• Saltsman placed third in the discus in a personal-best 162-05.00.
• Tyler Charles placed second in the triple jump in a wind-aided 49.01.50; Christian Quinn placed eighth in a personal-best 45-04.25.
• Pete Meehan placed third in the decathlon, scoring a personal-best 5,671 points. 

Meet Notes

• Travis Williams was named Outstanding Track Performer and won the Coaches' Award, recognizing the highest individual scorer in the championship meet.
• Louis Gordon was named Outstanding Field Performer.
• The women's team won their 14th-straight America East Outdoor title, the longest winning-streak among NCAA Division I institutions, scoring 218.5 points and winning eight events.
• The men's streak of 17-straight America East Outdoor titles ended.
• Travis Williams set a new championship meet record in the 100m, surpassing the previous mark of 10.37 set in 2014 by UMBC's Dennison Long.  T. Williams also set a new facility record, surpassing the previous mark of 10.31 set in 2014 by Jeremy Bascome, competing unattached.
• Gianni Henry placed third in the 800m by one-thousandth of a second to Graham Stedfast from UMass Lowell.
• The men's 4x100m relay team set a new championship meet record, surpassing the previous mark of 40.64 set in 2022 by UAlbany.
• The top-eight men's 4x400m relay teams finished within 1.53 seconds.
• The men's 4x800m relay set a new championship meet record, surpassing the previous mark of 7:32.22 set in 2017 by New Hampshire.  The team also set a new facility record, surpassing the previous mark of 7:32.47 set in 2015 by Binghamton. 

Next: UAlbany visits Army for the West Point Twilight meet on May 11.