AMHERST, Mass. -- Senior Henry Buren won both the 100-meter and 200-meter dash Sunday as the Amherst College men's track & field team cruised to a third-place finish at the UMass-Amherst Outdoor Invitational. 

Six institutions had teams representing them at the invite. The UMass-Amherst men's team won with 245.50 points while Merrimack placed second with 147.50 and the Mammoths third with 78.50. The Mammoths finished ahead of Holy Cross, Hartford and Northeastern. Amherst was the only non-Division I school at the event. 

The Mammoths will host the Amherst Spring Fling Saturday. Throws begin at 11 a.m. and the track portion will begin at 12 p.m. The Amherst men will welcome five other schools: Middlebury, Brandeis, Wesleyan, Wheaton and Williams. 

MEET HIGHLIGHTS:

* Buren won the 100 in 11.03 seconds, qualifying for the Div. III New England Championship meet in the process. He beat the runner-up eight hundreds of a second. He then won the 200 in 22.27 seconds -- eighteen hundreds of a seconds better than the second-place finisher -- which also qualified him for the Div. III New England Championship meet. In addition, Matt Gellin placed 15th in the 200 with a time of 23.79.

* Junior Will Merhige placed 13th in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:03.62. Senior Ajay Sarathy placed 24th in 4:11.84. First-year Luke Munch had a great race in the 5,000-meter run, placing sixth overall with a time of 15:42.79. That was a personal-best time for Munch. Senior Spencer Davis was right behind him with a time of 15:48.51, good for eighth place. First-year Daniel Martin was 12th in the race with a time of 15:58.02, a personal-best time. 

* Senior Ben Wadsworth was third in the 400 hurdles, qualifying for the Div. III New England  Championships with a time of 56.59.  First-year Thomas Ye also qualified for Div. III New Englands with a personal-best time of 57.31, good for fifth place. Junior Max Spelke was seventh in 59.97.Camden Heafitz placed 10th in the 110 hurdles with a time of 19:31 seconds. 

* Sophomores Gabriel dos Santos and Heafitz placed second in third, respectively, in the high jump, clearing 1.85 and 1.80 meters. Amherst first-year Adrian Friedman was second in the long jump with a leap of 6.47 meters. Heafitz (5.88) and Spelke (5.87) were 9th and 10th in the event. 

* In the triple jump, junior Kelechi Eziri placed second with an effort of 13.39 meters, qualifying him for the Div. III NE meet. That was a personal best jump for Eziri. Dos Santos placed fourth with a distance of 12.74 meters. 

* Sophomore David Brown and first-year Hugh LemmonKishi placed 10th and 11th in the shot put, respectively, with tosses of 12.43 and 12.46 meters. Spelke was 15th with a throw of 10.27. That was a personal-best throw for LemmonKishi. Brown was sixth in the discus with a Div. III New Englands qualifying throw of 40.97 meters, a career best. LemmonKishi placed 11th with a throw of 36.55 meters and senior Troy Colleran was 12th with a toss of 36.15 meters. Junior Jack Trent was 13th with a throw of 34.29 meters. All three had career-best tosses. 

* Junior Jack Renda was 10th in the hammer throw with a distance of 35.02. Colleran and junior Kevin Ryu placed sixth and seventh, respectively, in the javelin with throws of 48.44 and 47.90. Both were personal bests. Trent and Renda were 10th and 12th, respectively, in the event. Trent's toss of 41.69 was a career best.