STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The 12th-ranked Haverford College men's track & field team continued its impressive season at the Fastrack National Invitational at Staten Island's Ocean Breeze Complex on Friday afternoon. The 5,000-meter run title was captured by Peter La Rochelle, who posted a 14:46.81, good for new personal best and one of the top 50 times in the nation this season.
LaRochelle's time is currently the fifth-fastest in the Centennial Conference. Directly behind La Rochelle was Aaron Bratt in fifth, as the senior crossed in 15:10.11. Miles Colescott also ran the distance for Haverford, finishing 12th in 15:22.10. In the 3,000 meters, First-year Jakob Maiwald was the 30th to cross in the 3,000-meters, posting a time of 8:55.82.
Reza Eshghi finished third in the mile with a mark of 4:11.66, and was the top Division III finisher as only a pair of Seawolves from Division I Stony Brook finished ahead of the sophomore. The time was a new personal best of nearly three seconds, and was just outside of the top 10 marks in program history. As of Friday night, with results still pending from meets across the region, Eshghi's time is second in the Centennial Conference to only teammate Jamie Moreland.
Michael Franco (36th, 4:28.60), Sammy Schindel (38th, 4:29.73), William Harris (51st, 4:35.05),and Nick Scardigno (54th, 4:36.18) all also competed in the mile distance for the Fords, with Franco, Schindel, and Harris all posting personal bests while Scardigno narrowly missed his PR from his rookie season.
In the 800 meters, Matthew Denton (1:57.81) and Nico Tripeny (1:59.30) finished in 16th and 19th, respectively, with both establishing new personal bests. Micah Lachman was 30th to cross (2:01.10) and Reed Solomon was 35th (2:02.07). Flyn Meadows rounded out the Haverford contingent with a time of 2:03.45.
Vir Goyal was the lone Haverford entrant in the 400 meters, crossing in 56.7 in his first collegiate 400-meter race. Jonathan Hill finished 38th in the 200 meters (23.18), while Ravi Eaton was the 56th-place finisher (23.79). Kinnan Abdalhamid took down his previous personal best, logging a 24.78. In the collegiate 60-meters, Hill logged a 26th-place finish in 7.54.
Eaton competed in the long jump, with a new personal-best mark of 13.14 meters (43 feet, 1.25 inches), good for a 15th place finish, and just outside the top 10 in program history.
Jamie Moreland will compete in tomorrow's historic Millrose Games at the NYC Armory, with his George Hirsch Invitational Mile slated to begin at approximately 4:10 p.m. as another record breaking weekend could be on the horizon for the Fords. The rest of the Haverford contingent will now return home for the Keogh Invitational on Saturday, February 18 inside Alumni Field House. Action is slated to begin at 10:30 a.m.