BOSTON, Mass. – The Brandeis Track and Field teams competed over the weekend at the Track at New Balance for the UMass-Lowell River Hawk Invitational with the women competing on Friday and the men on Saturday. This was a non-scoring meet, with the women competing on Friday and the men on Saturday against Division I and II competition.

TOP PERFORMANCES - WOMEN

• On the women's side, the Judges turned in eight season-best performances.
• Senior Yahni Lapa (West Newton, Mass. / Newton North) had the team's top finish, placing 10^th in the 500-meter run with a time of 1:22.65.
• Senior Bridget Pickard (Westwood, Mass. / Westwood) had a 12^th-place finish in the mile run with a time of 5:20.70, also a p.r.
• First-year Ella Warkentine (Malvern, Pa. / Conestoga) was 16^th in the mile in 5:23.35.
• Junior Alya Campbell (Eastchester, N.Y. / Eastchester) turned in the team's final top-20 performance in running events, placing 19^th in the 60m hurdles in 9.35 seconds.
• Junior Smiley Huynh (Bronx, N.Y. / Bronx H.S. of Science) was 20^th in the pole vault with a height of 3.06 meters (10-0 ½)
• Other team season bests came from Campbell in the 200 (32^nd, 26.82 seconds); junior Liz Korn (Piedmont, Calif. / Piedmont) in the 400 (24^th, 1:00.95); senior Victoria Morrongiello (Staten Island, N.Y. / Susan E. Wagner) in the 800m (34^th, 2:26.18); sophomore Kirsten Man (Kendall Park, N.J. / South Brunswick) in the high jump (29^th, 1.45m/4-9); and first-year Emma Liu (Las Vegas, Nev. / Phillips Exeter Academy) in the shot put (48^th, 8.87m / 29-4 ¼)
• Lapa, sophomore Hannah Bohbot-Dridi (Mountain View, Calif. / Los Altos), Morrongiello and Korn finished 13^th in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 4:10.23, also a team's season high.

Other top women's finishes (* indicates PR)

• 400m – Hannah Bohbot-Dridi – 1:01.25
• 200m – Liz Korn – 47^th – 27.46 seconds
• 200m – Devin Hiltunen – 51^st – 27.73 seconds
• 3000m – Katie Lyon – 28^th – 11:12.74 *
• 3000m – Katriona Briggs – 29^th – 11:16.37 *
• 3000m – Calli Morvay – 32^nd – 11:30.31 *
• TJ – Shaniece Nugent – 23^rd – 10.36m, 34-0
• TJ – Kirsten Man – 31^st – 9.71m, 31-10 ¾
• PV – Smiley Huynh – 20^th – 3.06m, 10-0 ½

TOP MEN'S PERFORMANCES

• The men had seven season-best performances, including the teams highest finish of the weekend.
• Senior Matthew Driben (Reading, Pa./Wyomissing Area) had the team's top performance, finishing sixth in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 15:05.30. That mark represented both a season-best for the team and a career-best for Driben.
• Sophomore Daniel Frost (Hanover, N.H. / Hanover) also PRed in the 5K with a time of 16:34.36, good for 31^st place.
• Junior Ori Slotky (Closter, N.J. / Northern Valley Regional) had a season-best performance in the triple jump with a distance o 11.83 meters (38-9 ¾), which was good for 13^th place. Sophomore Lin Lin Hutchinson (Portland, Ore. / Ida B. Wells) was 16^th in the event at 11.23 meters (36-10 ¼).
• Though he didn't turn in a season-best performance, senior Dion Morris-Evans (Canal Fulton, Ohio / Northwest) had a trio of top-20 finishes. He was 18^th in the high jump (1.76m, 5-9 ¼), 19^th in the long jump (6.01m, 19-8 ¾) and 20^th in the 60-meter hurdles (8.93 seconds).
• Other season-best performances in individual races came from first-year TJ Carleo (Newburyport, Mass. / Newburyport) in the mile (24^th, 4:24.73), who ran a PR; junior Sam Kim (La Jolla, Calif. / Phillips Exeter (N.H.) in the 800-meter run (26^th, 1:58.07) and sophomore Danny Krigman (Chelmsford, Mass. / Chelmsford) in the 200-meter dash (78^th, 23.68 seconds).
• Carleo, Kim Krigman and first-year Leo Schiappa (Wareham, Mass. / Old Rochester Regional) combined for the team's best run of the 4x400-meter relay of the season, placing 15^th with a time of 3:31.30.
• Sophomore Cam Peirce (Kittery, Maine / Portsmouth Christian Academy) turned in a season-best performance in the shot put, coming in 39^th with a throw of 12.10m (39-8 ½).

Other top men's performances (* indicates PR)

• WT – Jonathan Hau – 38^th – 12.44m, 40-9
• WT – Zachary Reynolds – 40^th – 12.17m, 29-11
• LJ – Ori Slotky – 23^rd – 5.84m, 19-2
• LJ – Lin Lin Hutchinson – 24^th – 5.78m, 18-11 ¾
• LJ – Parker Jones – 25^th – 5.77m – 18-11 ¼
• 60m hurdles – TJ Showstead – 34^th – 9.32 seconds
• 60m – Danny Krigman – 47^th – 7.37 seconds
• 60m – Matthew Yue – 70^th – 7.61 seconds
• Mile – Willem Goff – 34^th – 4:29.51 *
• Mile – Ethan Meilander – 53^rd – 4:46.03 *
• 800m – Taylor Diamond – 45^th – 2:08.17
• 1000m – Dylan Zhao – 32^nd – 2:45.12 *
• 200m – Leo Schiappa – 80^th – 23.75 seconds *
• 200m – Parker Jones – 81^st – 23.76 seconds

UP NEXT

• The Judges compete next weekend at Tufts for the Cupid Invitational.