Complete Results
 
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—The University of Hartford track & field teams picked up seven individual victories, two relay victories and broke a pair of school records at the Springfield College Invitational Saturday. The Hawk women scored 154 points on the afternoon to finish third overall as a team while the men finished foutth overall with 111 total points.
 
The women's team racked up 154 total points, just four points behind second-place Williams College and 21 points off the pace of host Springfield College, which fished first as a team on the women's side.
 
“We progressed a lot since the last meet,” said assistant coach Mike DuPaul. “Last week, we were just getting back into things after seven weeks off for break. This week we came out and really showed who we are.”
 
For the women, freshman Tiffany Harrison had a record-setting day. Harrison paced the Hawks in the 400-meter dash, picking up first place with a time of 59.26. The time broke the facility record for the Springfield College Fieldhouse. Harrison led a trio of Hawks with top-10 finishes in the event. Juniors Priscilla Appiagyei and Natalie Bonham finished third and ninth, respectively.
 
Harrison, Appiagyei, Bonham and freshman Merrica Modeste ran their way to a school-record in the 4x200-meter relay. The foursome won the event with a record time of 1:46.99. A second Hawk squad, comprising senior Kenterra Richardson, sophomores Keshia Redhead and Rebecca Cheatham and junior Nicole McClintock finished third in the 4x200.
 
Harrison also picked up second place as an individual in the 200 meters with a time of 27.05. Bonham picked up third place with a time of 27.09, Appiagyei finished fifth, crossing the line in a time of 27.25 and Modeste took ninth place with her 27.89-second mark.
 
Two other Hawk women set record marks Saturday. Freshman Sam Crisafulli set a school record as she won the 600 meters with a time of 1:39.20. Sophomore Megan Barry set a facility record, winning the 5,000-meter run in a time of 18:07.03. Barry's time was also a personal best.
 
Junior Jennifer Flores also picked up a win on the track for the Hawk women. Flores led wire-to-wire to take first place in the 1,000-meter run.
 
In the field, sophomore Alisha Beeman picked up a win for the Hawks in the high jump. Beeman cleared a height of 1.60 meters on her way to a first-place finish. Beeman also finished third in the triple jump, just ahead of classmate Alexandria Thatcher, who finished fourth.
 
Thatcher also finished fourth in the long jump, just behind senior teammate Miranda Wallace, who reached a mark of 4.79 meters to finish third.
 
Senior Nicolle Adams finished second in the pentathlon. Adams racked up 2,780 total points in the multi-event. A first-place finish in the pentathlon long jump highlighted her performance.
 
The men finished fourth overall with 111 points, just 23 points out of first place, despite not competing in four events.
 
“Our men's team didn't have any competitors in four of the 19 events. That allowed other teams to gain free points on us,” said DuPaul. “But at the end of the day, we were only 23 points out of first place, so we did a great job of closing the gap and making it a close contest.”
 
One individual who helped the Hawks tally points was senior sprinter Anderson Emerole. Emerole picked up wins in both the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes. Emerole was one of three Hawks to score points in the 200-meter dash, crossing the line first in a time of 22.91 seconds. Sophomores Gario Graham and Ansu Diggs finished seventh and eighth in the event, respectively. Emerole's time of 50.59 paced the field in the 400-meter dash while Graham finished seventh in that race.
 
Diggs also scored as an individual in the 60-meter dash, taking fourth place with a finals time of 7.28.
 
Emerole, Graham and Diggs, along with sophomore Rashawn Providence, led the Hawks to a win in the 4x200-meter relay, posting a time of 1:34.18.
 
The Hawk men also picked up a number of top-ten finishes in the middle distance and distance races. Junior Christopher Rodriguez finished seventh in the 600-meter run with his time of 1:26.70. Senior Andrew Chalmers took home third place in the 800 meters, finishing the race in 1:59.84. In the 1,000-meter run, two Hawks finished in the top-five as junior Robert Giuliani picked up second place while senior Kevin Brandon finished fourth.
 
Brandon also scored a sixth-place finish in the 3,000 meters, crossing the finish line in 9:03.97.
 
In the mile run, senior Wayne Lawrence and sophomore Andrew Dwyer picked up points, finishing fifth and seventh, respectively.
 
Sophomore John Busque picked up a second-place finish in the 5,000-meter run. Paced by Chalmers through the first two miles of the race, Busque crossed the line with a time of 15:35.83. Freshman Matthew Stoutz finished eighth in the race.
 
Next up for the Hawks is the Boston University Valentine Invitational. The women's invitational is February 10 while the men's meet is February 11.