BOSTON (February 5, 2022) -- In Friday's heat races, sophomore Stephen Harris (Billerica, Mass.) turned in New England's fastest time in the 200-meter dash. He backed things up on Saturday at Reggie Lewis Center, as he claimed the New England title in the event, with a school-record run of 21.49 seconds. Harris led the way on the day for the Franklin Pierce University men's track & field teams, which was in action in multiple places in Beantown. The Ravens had athletes at both the NEICAAA Championships, and at the BU Track & Tennis Center, where Boston University was hosting the Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invite.

The story of the day was Harris though, as he became the 12^th athlete in program history to claim a New England title, as well as the second of the weekend, as he followed up on the high-jump crown earned by senior Paola Brena (Queretaro, Mexico) on Friday. Harris' time of 21.49 was not only good enough to better his own school record from a week ago, but moved him up to 18^th in the nation in the event.

Elsewhere at New Englands on Saturday, the Ravens had one more in action on the track, as well as a pair who took part in the shot put. On the track, in the mile, sophomore Wondu Summa (Burlington, Mass.) claimed All-New England honors with a time of 4:14.42, which was good enough for a third-place finish. In the shot put, it was 10^th and 11^th for sophomore Sal Lando (Sterling, Mass.) and senior Croix Albee (Trenton, Maine), respectively. The two were separated by only a centimeter, as the former threw the shot 14.52 meters, while the latter had a heave of 14.51 meters.

Meanwhile, Franklin Pierce was busy on the track at BU during the Scarlet and White Invite. In the 60-meter dash, sophomore Nathan Rinaldi (Bristol, Conn.) was 32^nd (7.32), sophomore Angel Gonzalez (North Andover, Mass.) was 40^th (7.41) and freshman Rodsir Vaughn (Darien, Conn.) was 57^th (8.14). Rinaldi doubled back to finish 47^th in the 200-meter dash (22.50), where he was narrowly edged by senior Devin Jones (Manchester, N.H.) in 45^th (22.48).

Per usual, there was a whole brigade of Ravens in the 800 meters. Sophomore Ryan Walker (Seabrook, N.H.) led the way in 23^rd (1:53.98), and he was followed by Summa in 48^th (1:57.16), sophomore Thomas Darrah (Thetford, Vt.) in 57^th (1:58.12), sophomore Ryan Outerbridge (Paget, Bermuda) in 62^nd (1:59.05), graduate student Sebastien Vicary (Ulceby, United Kingdom) in 65^th (1:59.68) and sophomore Evan McNeice (Wethersfield, Conn.) in 66^th (2:00.24).

As for the field events at BU, sophomore Conor Nordmann (Bethel, Conn.) took 11^th in the pole vault (4.20m) and senior Ethan Pezzullo (Bristol, R.I.) was 16^th in the long jump (6.21m).

Franklin Pierce is headed back to BU next weekend, with select athletes in action at the David Hemery Valentine Invite on Feb. 11-12. Meanwhile, the rest of the team will head to MIT on Saturday, for the Gordon Kelly Invitational, as the Ravens go through their final tune-ups before the Northeast-10 Conference Championships.