LOWELL, Mass. – The UMass Lowell men's track and field team split up and competed at both the UMass Lowell D'Amour Invitational and Raleigh Relays on Friday afternoon.

In Raleigh, sophomore Michael Fisher (Wallingford, Conn.) was the only male to compete on Friday and he ran well, finishing in 25^th place out of 126 runners in the 400m with a 47.76 mark.

"Mike picked up right where he left off indoors with an excellent opening 400m," said Head Coach Gary Gardner. "It was another good day."

Back in Lowell, the 4x100 relay kicked it off, and the team of sophomore Dmitrius Shearrion (Taunton, Mass.), sophomore Iyanuoluwapo Omisore (Lagos, Nigeria), senior Tristan O'Riorden and junior Evan Imasogie (Lowell, Mass.) earned the victory with a 41.45 mark. Another team of River Hawks that included junior Brandon Riley (Weymouth, Mass.), sophomore Michael Gyimah (Kumasi, Ghana), senior Brett Earle (Baldwinville, Mass.) and junior Daniel Kennedy (Tolland, Conn.) finished just behind them in second place with a 42.03 mark. A third team of junior Anthony Massari (Dumont, N.J.), senior Alejandro Lynch (Somerville, Mass.), sophomore Cyprian Ojatabu (Ojoto, Nigeria) and junior Nidlaire Olivier (Lowell, Mass.) finished fourth with a time of 42.46.

The 110m hurdles were next, with Riley finishing third to lead the team with a 15.67 mark. The 1,500m followed that, as freshman Joshua Toth warned the victory with a 4:00.66 mark, before graduate student Landen Vaillancourt (New Ipswich, N.H.) finished third with a 4:02.82 mark. Juniors David McKinnon (Bloomsbury, N.J.) and Pedro Mayol (Lincoln, R.I) claimed fifth and sixth place, respectively, earning times of 4:03.62 and 4:08.71, before sophomores Tyler Rothrock (Allentown, Pa.) and Dante Castellano (Nashua, N.H.) rounded out the top 10 with 4:10.35 and 4:11.34 marks.

In the 100m dash, Kennedy picked up the win with a 10.75 mark, while Omisore was not far behind in third place with a time of 10.88. Imasogie (6^th, 10.95), Shearrion (8^th, 11.01) and Gyimah (9^th, 11.02). Ojatabu led the team in the 400m, finishing sixth with a 51.51 mark, before Earle claimed ninth with a 52.16 mark and freshman Raymond Dafe (Lowell, Mass.) finished 10^th in 52.18.

The 400m hurdles followed the 400m run, and Lynch hurdled to victory with a time of 54.22, just before O'Riorden crossed in second with a 55.05 mark. This led to the 200m dash, where Massari finished in first place with a 22.38 mark and Shearrion was just behind him with a 22.61 mark for second. Another victory came next in the 3,000m, and it was sophomore Tyler Young (Marion, Mass.), who finished with a time of 8:45.89, before sophomore Jamie Lano (Strafford, N.H.) claimed second with a time of 8:47.82. Three more River Hawks finished within the top 10, including freshman JJ Rooney (Danvers, Mass.) (4^th, 8:56.01), senior Frederick Coleman (Methuen, Mass.) (8^th, 9:01.79) and senior Daniel Burns (Billerica, Mass.) (9^th, 9:04.49).

The 4x400m relay closed out the running events for the day, and the River Hawks finished second with the team of freshman Abdul Jalloh (Lowell, Mass.), Rothrock, Dafe and Lynch earning a time of 3:24.47.

In the field events, freshman Kevin Vigneault got it started with a fourth-place performance in the hammer throw, reaching 47.90m. In the javelin, freshman Jacob Tucker hit 51.76m for second place overall, while graduate student Luke Stelmach (Sterling, Mass.) finished fifth with a 47.92 mark.

The men found success in the shot put, taking the top three spots. Freshman Kenneth Kalvinek (Sutton, Mass.) earned the win (15.39m), followed by freshman Kevin Vigneault (Jamesville, N.Y.) in second (14.71m) and senior Mukanya Kazadi (Woburn, Mass.) in the number three spot (14.48m). Graduate student Ian Camerato (Mount Laurel, N.J.) also competed, tossing his way to fifth place (14.08m).

Sophomore Camren Allain (Carver, Mass.) snagged another victory for the River Hawks, winning the high jump with a 2.00m mark, while freshman Rere Edokpolo (Manchester, N.H.) followed that up with a win of his own in the long jump and 6.58m mark. Finally, the field events concluded with a victory from Camerato and 47.19m toss. Kalvinek was just behind him in second with a 45.67m mark, while senior Derek Munroe (Tewksbury, Mass.) claimed seventh with a 41.44m mark.