Results

The Northeastern track & field team put together a collective team effort from top to bottom, claiming second out of fourth place in the Battle of Beantown on Friday evening at Gordon Indoor Track in Cambridge. The Huskies accumulated 156.5 points while host Harvard won the team portion with a sum of 191 points.

The Huskies had four different student-athletes emerged victoriously, thanks to the distance team's dominating show from the 1,000-meter through to the 3K. Sophomore Eric Jenkins won the 1,000-meter run in 2:25.47, NU's best time in that event this year. Classmate Brian Doyle posted the Huskies' second-best mark of the season in the mile for the win, running at a clip of 4:08.02. Freshman Stephen Sollowin took the 3,000-meter crown with a winning mark of 8:26.37. Junior Stefano Combi captured the long jump event with Northeastern's second-best mark of the season, 7.06m (23'2).

Senior transfer Darius Velez broke is own school record in the 60-meter dash, grabbing second place with a time of 6.88. Freshman Jared Lane gained third place in the 200-meter dash to the tune of 22.42 while Velez finished seventh with a time of 23.07.

Sophomore Alex Shaipro was the runner-up to the 400-meter winner, posting a second-place mark of 49.86. First-year runner Andrew Rice registered a time of 1:08.06 for fifth place in the 500-meter dash.

Combi also competed in the 60-meter hurdles, racking up second place with Northeastern's third-best time in school history, closing out in 8.23. Lane was immediately behind in 8.33 for third while sophomore Jackson MacDonald finished fifth to the tune of 8.64.

The men's distance medley relay reinforced the output by the distance team with another runner-up performance by sophomores Kaylin Mirandna and Dylan Lucas, Jenkins and Doyle. The NU quartet finished just 15 hundredths of a second behind the winner, Harvard. The Huskies posted a time of 10:06.16 for second place.

In the pole vault, sophomore Dylan Lucas cracked the top three with a spring of 4.50m (14'9) while sophomore Darwin Gibbons and Pablo Rodriguez each cleared 4.20m (13'9.25) for sixth.

Miranda joined Combi in the long jump field as Northeastenr blanketed the top four spots. Besides' Combi's win, Miranda was the runner-up with a mark of 6.99m (22'11.25) while senior Andrew Staples finished third with a vault of 6.97m (22'10.5). Junior Tejorn Davis gained fourth place after being measured off at 6.87m (22'6.5).

Freshman Jason Matthews picked up more second-place points with a runner-up finish of 14.1m (46'6) in the triple jump while veteran Brian Racca took second place with a combo of 14.04m (46'0.75).

In the throws game, sophomore Max Milder hurled for 17.30m (56'9.25) to capture second place while Patrick Jabonski dominated the oval for third place in the shot put (16.46m • 54'0)

Northeastern will make its first trip to Boston University's campus next Friday for the Valentine Invitational. The Huskies will compete on Feb. 10 at BU's Track & Tennis center.