Meet Results
 
TROY, N.Y. - An impressive day two of the 2024 Liberty League Outdoor Track & Field Championships highlighted by sophomore Jason Bois' record-breaking win in the 110-meter hurdles and another record-resetting run from junior Sam Ahern in the 200-meter dash led the Union College men's track and field team to a 42 point day and a fourth-place finish at the Championships.
 
Early in the day, Bois highlighted the team's Championship weekend with a .005 second margin victory in the hurdles. Bois raced out to a decisive early lead and held off a comeback bid by RPI's Cortez Garrett to take the victory and score 10 points. Bois' 14.87 time trimmed nearly three-tenths of a second off his prelim time and crushed the program's 45-year-old 15.10-second record held by Matt Blum '80.
 
Bois clinched a spot in the AARTFC Regionals in the season-opening meet at the Pioneer Spring Invitational hosted by Utica University and will head to Cortland next weekend to continue his sophomore campaign.
 
After breaking the program's 200-meter record in the prelims Friday, Ahern would reset the record in the finals again on Saturday. His 21.65-second mark would best the 21.74-second time he posted to Union's record board on Friday, and would take home another medal with his third-place finish and six points for the Garnet Chargers. Ahern clinched his spot in the event at Regionals with his Championship weekend performances.
 
Ahern added another impressive performance in the 100-meter dash, joining first-year Nate Okwaning to claim two spots on the podium. Ahern took silver in 10.84 seconds while Okwaning claimed bronze in 10.92 seconds, combining for 14 points. Ahern qualified for Regionals in the event at the Trinity Invite two weeks ago while Okwaning punched his ticket with his prelim time Friday.
 
To begin the day, Union's 4x100 team of Okwaning, senior Ryan Hilliard, first-year Aaron Binion, and Ahern took home third in 42.37 seconds, bringing in an early six points to Union's tally.
 
Senior Charlie Alekson followed with a sixth-place finish and more points for Union in the 1500, crossing the line in sixth at 3:53.19, good for three points. Junior Ben Neff also finished inside the top-10, in ninth, in a personal best 3:55.17. Both Alekson and Neff have come in under four minutes, the AARTFC qualifying number, their last three times out.
 
Hilliard later added a point in his own right in the triple jump, leaping a new personal best 12.85 meters to finish eighth. To finish out the Championships, he joined the 4x400 squad with Binion, first-year Jackson Klehr, and sophomore Aidan Savitt to gain two more points with their seventh-place finish in 3:27.14, a season-best in the event for Union.
 
Sophomore Tony Cocchiaro added a personal best in the discus throw and came four inches shy of adding another best in the shot put, while classmate Mason Lang rounded out the top 10 in the shot put.
 
Union finished the Championships with 51 points, four clear of St. Lawrence in sixth. Their group of regional qualifiers will now prepare for the AARTFC Regionals, set to take place in a week and a half on May 15th and 16th on the campus of SUNY Cortland.