BOSTON, Mass. – The UMass Lowell men's track and field team tallied multiple top finishes on Saturday in the Scarlet and White Invitational at Boston University and the Harvard Crimson Elite hosted by Harvard University. 

In the men's 500 meter run, graduate student Sean O'Neill (New Egypt, N.J.) led the way for the River Hawks with a seventh-place finish and a time of 1:05.47 while freshman Basit Iddriss (Milford, Mass.) joined him in the top-10 with a personal-best 1:05.80 mark to claim ninth place. Freshman Michael Soucy (Methuen, Mass.) (personal-best 1:06.66), senior Ryan Casebolt (Boxborough, Mass.) (1:07.48) and junior Tanner Jellison (Wakefield, Mass.) (1:07.73) also competed in the 500, finishing in 13th, 15th and 17th place respectively.

The first five River Hawks to finish the mile run broke their personal-best times, as sophomore Joseph Curran (Nashua, N.H.) and freshman Sean Kennedy-Wonneberger (East Haddam, Conn.) were the first two to cross the finish line. Curran came in with a 4:12.10 mark while Kennedy-Wonneberger earned a time of 4:13.14. The pair of senior Samuel Toolin (North Kingstown, R.I.) and junior Henry Farrington (Essex Junction, Vt.) finished consecutively in 50th and 51st place while the pair of freshman Daniel Burns and sophomore Jonathan D'Ambrosio (Wakefield, Mass.) also finished back-to-back in 60th and 61st. 

In the 400 meter dash, it was freshman Bradley Diaz that was the lead River Hawk in his first career 400, earning 28th-place honors and a mark of 49.33. Junior Rodrigo Freitas (Billerica, Mass.) also competed, finishing with a time of 53.17 for 48th place.

Freshman Jonathan Stock broke his personal-best in the 800 meter run, finishing in 20th place with a time of 1:53.22. Junior Jake Connolly (Weymouth, Mass.) also ran his personal-best indoor time, finishing with a 1:56.55 mark while freshman Mamadu Tchamo (Brockton, Mass.) also collected his career-best time of 1:57.98. Sophomores Sean Riley (Wilmington, Mass.) (1:57.60) and Peter Dizon (Barnegat, N.J.) (1:59.08) also competed for the River Hawks. 

Freshman Hatim Boukhtam (Abington, Mass.) led the squad in his first collegiate 1,000 meter run, hitting a time of 2:28.16 for ninth place overall. Senior Timothy Champlin (Charlestown, R.I.) earned 13th-place honors with a time of 2:29.23 while graduate student Chris McCauliff (Lunenburg, Mass.) (2:30.81) and senior William Cole-French (Hanoi, Vietnam) (2:30.96) finished consecutively in 19th and 20th place respectively. 

In the 200, senior Sean Glass (Haverhill, Mass.) ran his fastest time of the season with a 22.04 mark while graduate student Joseph Gaudreau (Wilmington, Mass.) ran his personal-best time of 22.02. Senior Hunter Marino (Weynouth, Mass.) was just behind him, hitting his PR with a 22.08 mark. Senior Michael Blake (Hudson, Mass.) followed him with a time of 22.19 and junior Adam Katerji (Shrewsbury, Mass.) hit his PR with a 22.34 mark. Graduate student Kashief Bogannam (Kingston, N.H.) (22.45) and sophomore Ben Ayotte (Salisbury, Mass.) (23.49) also competed.

Sophomore Wouter Van Den Akker (Groningen, Netherlands) finished in seventh place in the 3,000 meter run for the team's top time of the season (8:13.50). Freshman Frederick Coleman (Methuen, Mass.) was the next River Hawk to finish, with a time of 8:29.54 in his first collegiate 3k. Sophomore Adnan Abdirahman (Dorchester, Mass.) (8:46.69), Sophomore Timothy Glowik (Danvers, Mass.) (8:57.17), freshman Joshua Rivers (Manchester, N.H.) (9:04.71) and junior Tyler Parrado (Weehawken, N.J.) (8:54.23) all competed as well. 

The team performed extremely well in the 4x400 relay, finishing in second place with a time of 3:13.29.  The relay squad consisted of Gaudreau, Marino, senior Thomas Jordan (Needham, Mass.) and Bogannam.

In the field events, Ian Camerato threw 13.25 meters in the shot put while Elie Kalambayi finished 10th in the long jump, reaching 6.47 meters.

Over at Harvard on the second day of the Crimson Elite men's heptathlon, sophomore Luke Stelmach and freshman Derek Munroe (Tewksbury, Mass.) competed. Stelmach hit his PR in total points for a multi event with 4,802. He hit his PR in the pole vault at 3.70m and the 1k at 2:47.43 for fourth place overall. Munroe finished fifth overall, also hitting his PR for total points with 4,350. Munroe hit his PR in the 60m dash at 7.48, the 60 meter hurdles at 9.80 and the 1k at 2:47.55. 

The River Hawks will now compete at New Hampshire next Friday, February 10 in Durham, N.H.