KINGSTON, R.I. – Looking to continue their early season success, the UMass Lowell track and field team took on the Sorlein Invite, hosted by Rhode Island, on Saturday at the Mackal Fieldhouse.

For the men, junior Evans Oduro (Kumasi, Ghana) led the way for the River Hawks, as he took home first in both the long jump and the triple jump. In the weight throw, graduate student Patrick Pang (Peabody, Mass.) took fifth with a throw distance of 17.72 meters.

The River Hawks came out strong in the 60-meter dash, with junior Michael Blake (Hudson, Mass.) finishing second and senior Elie Kalambay (Lynn, Mass.) placing sixth.

The 400-meter dash was the best event for the River Hawks on the day, having three members finish in the top seven. Junior Thomas Jordan (Needham, Mass.) recorded a time of 50.28 seconds to win the event, while senior Kashief Bogannam (Kingston, N.H.) was only a second behind to finish in third. Graduate student Joseph Gaudreau (Wilmington, Mass.) rounded out the pack with a time of 51.59 to finish seventh.

In the 800-meter run, graduate student Derek Holmes (Marshfield, Mass.) recorded a time of 1:56.64 to finish in second, and graduate student Christopher Alfond (Ashby, Mass.) turned in a time of 1:58.40 to earn a seventh-place finish.

The River Hawks continued to find success in the collection of running events, as graduate students Daniel Cosgrove (Boxford, Mass.) and Noah Bellomo (Hudson, N.H.) took fourth and fifth in the 1000-meter run, while senior Drew Everett (Amesbury, Mass.) finished third and freshman Jan Wouter Van Den Akker (Groningen, Netherlands) took seventh in the mile.

The men finished strong, with freshmen Nick Melisi (Natick, Mass), TJ Glowik (Danvers, Mass.), Timothy Brigham (Holden, Mass.) and Graham Stedfast (Rowley, Mass) taking second, third, sixth and seventh, respectively in the 3000-meter event. Lastly, the team of Cosgrove, junior William Cole-French (Hanoi, Vietnam), graduate student Liam Kimball (Atkinson, N.H.) and senior Joseph Young Jr. (Shrewsbury, Mass.) took home second in the 4x800 meter relay with a time of 8:00.25.

On the women's side, the River Hawks had multiple first place finishes. Graduate student Lauren Eddy (Grafton, Mass) won the 400-meter dash after she finished in just under a minute. Meanwhile her teammates, senior Isabella Giesing (Bradford, Vt.) and graduate student Kaley Richards (Lowell, Mass.), took first in the 500-meter and 1000-meter runs, respectively.

In the mile, graduate student Jenna Solimine (Haverhill, Mass) came in with a time of 5:03.39, good for fifth, while freshman Sarah Ross (Agawam, Mass.) finished in 5:11.71 for an eighth-place finish.

In the pole vault, senior Rachel Hill (North Reading, Mass.) finished in fourth. Leading the team in the triple jump was sophomore Alexandria Grasso (North Reading, Mass.), who finished fifth, while sophomore Wonuola Ashaju (Lagos, Nigeria) took seventh.

Rounding out the events for the women, sophomore Martina Nkwantah (Pepperell, Mass.) finished fourth in the shot put, and senior Olivia Sheffield (Lowell, Mass) finished second in the 3000-meter run with a time of 10:28.77.

Next up the River Hawks will head to Boston to compete in the Boston University Multi Team Meet on Saturday, January 22.