BOSTON – The Mammoths 4x800m relay team won the New England Championship in record-breaking fashion as the Amherst College men's track and field team finished third at the New England Division III Indoor Championships after the final day of action on Saturday at the Track at New Balance.
The Mammoths tallied 64 points to edge Tufts by just half a point for third place out of the 35 teams at the meet. MIT won its fourth straight team championship with 159 points.
All-New England honors are awarded to the top eight finishers in each event and the Mammoths posted 9 All-New England marks today for a total of 13 in the meet.
The Mammoths are back in action next Saturday (March 4), competing in the Tufts National Qualifying Meet for one last chance to qualify for the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships.
MEET HIGHLIGHTS:
* In the final event of the day, the Amherst 4x800m relay team of junior
Braedon Fiume, first-years
Will Nagy and
Ben Davis, and junior
Kolya Markov-Riss won the title with a time of 7:46.34, breaking the meet record of 7:48.10 that had been set by another Amherst quartet in 2016.
* Earlier in the day, Markov-Riss claimed fourth place in the 800m, finishing in 1:53.14.
* Davis also garnered All-New England accolades in the 1000m, posting a season-best time of 2:29.87 to finish fifth.
* First-year
Jordan Harrison sprinted to a second-place finish in the 60m dash, matching his season-best time of 6.95 seconds.
* Sophomore
Camden Heafitz finished third and junior
Gabe dos Santos was fourth in the high jump, each clearing 1.95m to earn All-New England honors.
* Senior
Kelechi Eziri claimed third place in the triple jump, earning indoor All-New England honors for the third time in his career with a season-best mark of 13.83m.
* First-year
Henry Dennen crossed third in the 3000m, setting a season-best time of 8:19.23.
* Senior
Max Spelke finished eighth in the heptathlon with 4,075 points to earn his first career indoor All-New England award. Spelke cleared a personal-best height of 3.55m in the pole vault today and finished second in the 1000m.
