LANCASTER, Pa. - The Haverford College men's indoor track & field team sits in third place at the end of the first day of action at the Centennial Conference Indoor Championships with 31 total points.
Haverford's distance medley relay returned to the top of the podium for the first time since the 2020 season, as the team of Reza Eshghi, Ravi Eaton, Matthew Denton, and Jamie Moreland pushed the baton across the line in 10:00.07, the fourth-fastest time in program history and a new Centennial Conference championship record. The time is currently the 26th-fastest this season across Division III with results still rolling in from across the conference championship landscape.
Men's Track & Field has now won the DMR at three of the last four Centennial Conference Indoor Championships and 20 times overall. All four of those individuals will earn first-team All-Centennial Conference accolades for their gold medal performance on Saturday.
Haverford also notched a medal winning performance in the 5,000 meters with Peter LaRochelle picking up the bronze in 14:49.78 for six points. Aaron Bratt finished just outside of the scoring in that event, with a time of 15:10.46.
The 4x200 meter relay team scored two points for Haverford with a seventh place finish in 1:36.86. Kinnan Abdalhamid, Jonathan Hill, and Vir Goyal joined Eaton for that race. The men's 4x800 meter relay squad of Micah Lachman, Reed Solomon, Michael Franco, and Nico Tripeny was the fifth-place team, as they clocked a 8:06.95 to pick up four points towards the Haverford ledger.
The triple jump saw the Fords pick up some major points from Jory Lee and Ravi Eaton as Lee returned to action with a fourth-place finish, clearing 13.37 meters (43 feet, 10.5 meters), just off his PR of 13.76 meters set in January. Eaton came up huge again as he added his third scoring performance of the afternoon with a fifth-place showing, clearing 13.31 meters (43 feet, eight inches), a new personal best.
Cyrus Slavin finished 17th in the weight throw, clearing 12 meters (39 feet, four inches) while Hill narrowly missed qualification to the finals of the 60-meter dash as he turned in a time of 7.37 seconds, good for 14th and just a tenth of a second off his personal best.
The 2022 Centennial Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships will now wrap up on Sunday. The second day of the championship meet will get underway at 11 a.m. and continue through the 4x400 relay which is slated for a 3:55 p.m. start. Medal ceremonies from day two events will follow the conclusion of action.