BOSTON – The Mammoths won New England titles in four events as the Amherst College men's track and field team finished third at the New England Division III Indoor Championships on Sunday at the Track at New Balance.
Two Amherst relay teams captured New England Championships, while first-year
Parker Boyle won the 1000m and classmate
Michael Abbey Jr. won the triple jump. The Mammoths tallied a total of 14 All-New England performances, awarded to the top eight finishers in each event.
The Mammoths earned a total of 83 points to place third in the field of 36 teams, the team's second consecutive top-three finish. MIT scored 154 points to win its fifth straight team championship.
The Mammoths will be back in action next weekend with one last chance to qualify for the NCAA Championships, competing in the NEICAAA Championships in Boston and at the Tufts Qualifying Meet in Medford.
MEET HIGHLIGHTS:
* Amherst's 4x800m relay team successfully defended its New England championship, breaking the meet record that the Mammoths set last year. Sophomore
Will Nagy, senior
Kolya Markov-Riss, first-year
Parker Boyle and sophomore
Ben Davis posted a mark of 7:41.61 to lead the field.
* The Mammoths also won the distance medley relay as Nagy, junior
Gent Malushaga, first-year
Josh Thomas and sophomore
Henry Dennen teamed up to post a time of 10:05.16 for Amherst's first championship in the event since 2015.
* Boyle captured a title in his New England Championships debut, winning the 1000m in a season-best 2:27.22 for Amherst's first championship in the event since 2012. Davis was second, repeating as an All-New England finisher in the event with a personal-best 2:28.06. Senior
Ian Dopp placed seventh with a time of 2:32.54, his first career All-New England finish.
* Abbey also earned a title in his New England Championship debut, winning the triple jump with a season-best mark of 14.24m to become Amherst's first New England champion in the event since 1986.
* Markov-Riss also posted an All-New England finish in the 600m, clocking in at 1:22.04 to place third.
* Dennen also repeated as an All-New England finisher in the 3000m, placing seventh in 8:22.05.
* Junior
Yeob Kim finished second in the long jump to lead a trio of All-New England Mammoths in the event. Kim posted a mark of 6.99m to repeat as an All-New England finisher and senior
Adrian Friedman followed up his New England outdoor championship in the event with a jump of 6.94m to finish third. First-year
Kaleb Barrett finished eighth in his championship debut with a season-best mark of 6.66m.
* First-year
Harrison Dow earned All-New England honors in his championship debut, placing fourth in the 5000m in a season-best time of 14:46.63.
* First-year
Alec Kuzyk cleared 4.54m in the pole vault, a personal best that earned him All-New England honors in his championship debut with a fifth-place finish.
* Sophomore
Alexander Nichols earned All-New England honors in the 60m dash, sprinting to a personal-best time of 7.00 seconds in the preliminaries before placing eighth in the final.
* indicates meet record
