Stedfast Sets School Record, River Hawks Take On Battle Road Twilight Meet

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Graduate student Graham Stedfast (Rowley, Mass.) broke the 800m school record, as a group of UMass Lowell student-athletes competed at the Battle Road Twilight Series Meet at MIT on Saturday evening.

Stedfast was one of two River Hawks in the 800m and zoomed to a 1:48.47 time to finish in fourth place with the school record. Senior Basit Iddriss (Milford, Mass.) was just behind him, claiming seventh with a 1:51.20 mark.

In the 100m dash, both junior Evan Imasogie (Lowell, Mass.) and sophomore Michael Gyimah (Kumasi Ghana) qualified for finals with personal records of 10.59 and 10.62. In the finals, Gyimah led the way in sixth place with a 10.78 mark, before Imasogie finished just after in seventh place with a time of 10.81.

Next was the 400m hurdles, and senior Alejandro Lynch (Somerville, Mass.) was the lone River Hawk, winning the race with a personal-best 53.21 mark to close out the track events.

The discus throw was the only field event with UMass Lowell competitors, and it was freshman Reznor Rokicki (Loveland, Ohio) that earned win out of six throwers with a personal-best 53.16m toss. Graduate student Ian Camerato (Mount Laurel, N.J.) was not far behind, reaching 50.16m for a personal record of his own. Freshman Kenneth Kalvinek (Sutton, Mass.) rounded out the meet for the River Hawks with a fourth-place finish and 43.58m mark.

Stedfast Sets School Record, River Hawks Take On Battle Road Twilight Meet

Players Mentioned

Ian Camerato

Michael Gyimah

Basit Iddriss

Evan Imasogie

Alejandro Lynch

Reznor Rokicki

Graham Stedfast

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