Meet: Battle in Beantown
 
Location: Track and Tennis Center in Boston, Mass.
 
Short Story: Track & field returns to action after a six-week layoff and sets varsity and freshman class records in the men's 600m in Boston.
 
Scoring: No Team Scoring
 
Results
 
Athletes of the Meet: Dominique Clarke, Steph Green, Hassan Abidi, Ja'Lil Reynolds
 
Track Events

• Skyler Smith placed eighth in the women's mile in a personal-best 5:04.41.
• Toni Galloway placed third in the women's 60m hurdles in 8.80; Kate Del Gandio placed fifth in 8.84, and Donnell Hartley placed seventh in 9.00.
• Antwone Messado placed second in the men's 60m hurdles in a personal-best 8.02; Tino Mancabelli placed sixth in a personal-best 8.42.
• Dominique Clarke placed second in the women's 60m in 7.54; Shantae Pryce placed third in 7.63, matching her personal-best.
• Shak Williams won the men's 60m in 6.73; Shavar Staats Jr. placed second in 6.79, Adlen Chambers placed fourth in a personal-best 6.87, Rajay Morris placed fifth in 6.89, and Lucas Casab placed sixth in 6.89.
• Hassan Abidi placed second in the men's 600m in 1:18.56; Mikolaj Gancarz placed seventh in 1:21.17.
• Brinesha Derrick-Bain placed seventh in the women's 400m in an indoor-best 57.98.
• Quincy Chery placed fourth in the men's 400m in a personal-best 49.40.
• Jay Blanchard placed eighth in the women's 300m in 43.24.
• Clarke placed second in the women's 200m in 24.74; Jazmen Newberry placed fifth in 24.87, and Pryce finished sixth in a personal-best 25.06.
• S. Williams placed seventh in the men's 200m in 21.99.
• Katie Iocca placed eighth in the women's 3,000m in 10:33.67.
• The women's 4x400m relay 'A' team of Derrick-Bain (58.61), Tyler Howard (1:02.19), Hartley (1:00.44), and Thalia Benoit (58.78)  placed seventh in 3:59.99.
• The men's 4x400m relay 'A' team of Jabari Barriffe (50.68), Chery (49.51), John Fermpong (50.92), and Raiden Guialdo (50.26) placed fourth in 3:21.28; the 'B' team of Krismar Powell (51.85), Abidi (49.01), Gancarez (51.11), and Isaac Graber (51.37) placed fifth in 3:23.32, and the 'C' team of Malachi Brown-El (50.43), Giovanni Gonzalez (51.10), MarcSean Montero (52.25), and Mancabelli (51.45) placed seventh in 3:25.20.

Field Events

• Shania Scott placed third in the Jarred Rome women's shot put in 45-09.00; Abbee Rhodes placed fourth in 42-06.75, and Kiki Nosile placed eighth in 40-06.75.
• Travis Robinson placed second in the Jarred Rome men's shot put in 56-02.75.
• Ja'Lil Reynolds won the men's high jump, clearing 6-09.00 and tying his personal-best; Zhi Luncheon-Lowrie placed fourth, clearing 6-03.25, Amar Brown also cleared 6-03.25 in fifth, a personal-best, Krismar Powell tied for sixth clearing 6-01.25, and Alex Ordonez placed eighth, also clearing 6-01.25.
• Gabe Snyder placed second in the men's pole vault, clearing a personal-best 14-01.25.
• Efe Omokeni placed third in the women's long jump in 18-08.50.
• Christian Quinn won the men's long jump in a personal-best 23-08.75; Louis Gordon placed second in 23-03.50, Marcus McFadden placed fourth in 22-11.25, and Daniel Cephus placed fifth in 22-02.25.
• Leann Nicholas placed second in the women's triple jump in 41-03.75.
• Steph Green won the women's weight throw in a personal-best 64-05.00; Nosile placed fifth in a personal-best 56-04.00.
• Amelia Benjamin placed second in the women's high jump, clearing 5-07.00.
• John Coddington placed fifth in the men's weight throw in a personal-best 54-09.00; Alex Saltsman placed seventh in 52-07.00.
• Tyler Charles placed second in the men's triple jump in 48-02.50; Jasir Parker placed third in 47-09.75. 

Meet Notes

• UAlbany alumna Grace Claxton won the women's 60m hurdles in 8.60.  She also placed second in the women's 400m in 54.83.
• Kate Del Gandio qualified third overall in the women's 60m hurdles in 8.80, and Donnell Hartley qualified sixth overall in 8.95.  Brinesha Derrick-Bain also qualified for finals, running 9.04 in the prelims and 9.00 in the final.
• In the women's 60m hurdles, Galloway edged fourth-place Alexandria Grasso from UMass Lowell by six one-thousandths of a second.
• Antwone Messado moves into fourth place in program history in the men's 60m hurdles.
• Kendall Mariacher qualified in the men's 60m hurdles in seventh place in 8.62, and ran 8.70 in the final.
• Dominique Clarke qualified in the women's 60m in first place in 7.49.
• In the men's 60m, Shavar Staats Jr. edged third-place Noble Gongon from UConn by three one-thousandths of a second, and Rajay Morris edged Lucas Casab by one one-thousandth of a second.
• Hassan Abidi broke the previous school record in the men's 600m of 1:18.81 set in 2019 by Myles Banfield.  His time also set a new indoor national record for his home country, Tunisia.
• Mikolaj Gancarz broke the previous freshman school record of 1:22.91 set in 2018 by Jordon Lawrence.  He moves into seventh place all-time in program history.
• Steph Green becomes the fifth woman in program history to record a mark over 64' in the weight throw.
• Kiki Nosile moves into ninth place in program history in the women's weight throw.
  Amelia Benjamin placed second in the women's high jump after failing to clear 5-08.00 in a jump-off with winner Patricia Mroczkowski from UConn.
• Charlotte Moscovici placed 10th in the women's high jump, clearing 10-08.75, breaking the freshman class record of 10-06.00 set in 2009 by Rebecca Power.  Her mark also surpasses the overall freshman class record of 10-07.00, set outdoors in 2019 by Samantha Martinez.
• John Coddington moved into seventh place in program history in the men's weight throw. 

Next: UAlbany competes at the Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge at The Armory in New York City and the Blue & Orange Invitational in Utica January 26-27.