HAVERFORD, Pa. – Day one of the two-day Centennial Conference 2014 Indoor Track & Field Championship is in the books and Haverford College's Christopher Stadler entered his name into the league's record book with a win in the men's 5,000-meter run to help the Fords to a second-place total of 24 points in the team race.

Stadler circled the oval at The Gary Lutnick Tennis & Track Center in a time of 14 minutes, 33.59 seconds to break the Centennial indoor championship record in the 5,000, surpassing the previous mark of 14:34.76 set at the 2012 championship by ex-teammate Jordan Schilit who graduated in the spring of 2013.

Current Stadler teammates Avi Bregman and David Roza also cracked the top eight for Haverford in the event Saturday. Bregman was fourth in a time of 14:43.75 followed closely in fifth by Roza who set a new career best with a time of 14:43.81.

Also notching a career-best performance Saturday was Andrew Bennett who recorded a fourth place in the triple jump with a lifetime-best leap of 13.53 meters (44 feet, 4.75 inches).

The opening four events of the two day, seven event men's heptathlon took place Saturday with reigning champion Jeffrey Ainsley of Haverford recording a career-best time, 7.29 seconds, in the 60-meter dash. Ainsley's opening day total of 2,592 points trails Johns Hopkins University's Michael Spadaro by only 55 points heading into Sunday's final three events.

In the team race Hopkins sits in first with 54 points with Haverford in second with 24 points.

The women's squad participated in just one event on Saturday. Senior Flora Berklein's time of 18:25.23 was good for 13th in the 5,000 while classmates Chelsea Thorsheim and Nora Howe also finished in the top 25. Thorsheim placed 19th with a season-best time of 19:04.22 and Howe came in 21st with a career-best mark of 19:17.14. 

The championship meet resumes Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. with the heptathlon high hurdles and several field events. Beginning with the men's distance medley relay -- originally scheduled to start off the main session of the meet at noon -- the schedule has been moved up one hour to get travelers on the road ahead of the upcoming winter storm predicted for the area.