Day One Results
 
TROY, N.Y. - Sophomores Nick Entner and Mason Lang both qualified for the AARTFC Regionals with personal best throws in the javelin Friday afternoon, combining on six of Union's nine points on the opening day of the 2024 Liberty League Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Harkness Field on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
 
Entner scored a top-five finish and four points in the event by crushing his previous personal best set at the RPI Capital District Classic a week ago by over 23 feet, registering a best throw of over 180 feet and 54.93 meters for four points. Lang finished two spots behind in seventh, tallying two points, with his 51.65-meter toss, defeating his previous personal best set at Liberty Leagues a year ago.
 
Lang later just barely set a new personal best in the hammer throw- by one inch- to finish 10th.

Junior Sam Ahern set the first of two program records in the 200-meter prelims, racing to a 21.74-second time to break the 10-year-old 21.83-second record set by Tosin Kazeem '14 to finish second to qualify for the event finals and punch his ticket for the event in the AARTFC Regionals. First-Years Nate Okwaning and Aaron Binion also timed personal bests in the event.

Okwaning and Ahern finished second and third in the 100-meter prelims in 10.81 and 10.82 seconds, respectively. Okwaning's time was a personal best and clinched a spot in the AARTFC Regionals next week after Ahern clinched his place in the event at the Trinity Invite two weeks ago.
 
To end the day, junior Ryan Russell broke the program's 43-year-old 10,000-meter record set in 1981 by Adam Licht '83, finishing in sixth in 31:23.63 to pick up three points and earn himself a spot in Regionals.
 
In the first track event of the Championship weekend, sophomore Jason Bois punched his ticket to the 110-meter hurdles finals Saturday with his second-place showing in the prelim in 15.16 seconds time. Junior Liam Beck timed a personal best in the event in 16.79 seconds.
   
Senior Ryan Hilliard added a personal best of his own by one-hundredth of a second in the 400, crossing the line in 51.33 seconds to defeat his previous best set at the 2021 Liberty League Outdoor Championships. First-Year Bretton Garrick and junior Nick DeBaise timed new bests in the 800 in 2:00.12 and 2:01.11, respectively.
 
Union will look to move up from their seventh-place spot on Saturday, with their 4x100 squad of Okwaning, Hilliard, Binion, and Ahern set to kick off the day at 12:10 p.m.