From Brandeis University Athletics

The Brandeis men's track and field team competed at the Track at New Balance for the UMass-Lowell River Hawk Invitational on Saturday. The men had seven season-best performances, including the teams highest finish of the weekend.

• Senior Matthew Driben (Reading, Pa./Wyomissing Area) had the team's top performance, finishing sixth in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 15:05.30. That mark represented both a season-best for the team and a career-best for Driben.
• Sophomore Daniel Frost (Hanover, N.H. / Hanover) also PRed in the 5K with a time of 16:34.36, good for 31^st place.
• Junior Ori Slotky (Closter, N.J. / Northern Valley Regional) had a season-best performance in the triple jump with a distance o 11.83 meters (38-9 ¾), which was good for 13^th place. Sophomore Lin Lin Hutchinson (Portland, Ore. / Ida B. Wells) was 16^th in the event at 11.23 meters (36-10 ¼).
• Though he didn't turn in a season-best performance, senior Dion Morris-Evans (Canal Fulton, Ohio / Northwest) had a trio of top-20 finishes. He was 18^th in the high jump (1.76m, 5-9 ¼), 19^th in the long jump (6.01m, 19-8 ¾) and 20^th in the 60-meter hurdles (8.93 seconds).
• Other season-best performances in individual races came from first-year TJ Carleo (Newburyport, Mass. / Newburyport) in the mile (24^th, 4:24.73), who ran a PR; junior Sam Kim (La Jolla, Calif. / Phillips Exeter (N.H.) in the 800-meter run (26^th, 1:58.07) and sophomore Danny Krigman (Chelmsford, Mass. / Chelmsford) in the 200-meter dash (78^th, 23.68 seconds).
• Carleo, Kim Krigman and first-year Leo Schiappa (Wareham, Mass. / Old Rochester Regional) combined for the team's best run of the 4x400-meter relay of the season, placing 15^th with a time of 3:31.30.
• Sophomore Cam Peirce (Kittery, Maine / Portsmouth Christian Academy) turned in a season-best performance in the shot put, coming in 39^th with a throw of 12.10m (39-8 ½).

Other top performances (* indicates PR)

• WT – Jonathan Hau – 38^th – 12.44m, 40-9
• WT – Zachary Reynolds – 40^th – 12.17m, 29-11
• LJ – Ori Slotky – 23^rd – 5.84m, 19-2
• LJ – Lin Lin Hutchinson – 24^th – 5.78m, 18-11 ¾
• LJ – Parker Jones – 25^th – 5.77m – 18-11 ¼
• 60m hurdles – TJ Showstead – 34^th – 9.32 seconds
• 60m – Danny Krigman – 47^th – 7.37 seconds
• 60m – Matthew Yue – 70^th – 7.61 seconds
• Mile – Willem Goff – 34^th – 4:29.51 *
• Mile – Ethan Meilander – 53^rd – 4:46.03 *
• 800m – Taylor Diamond – 45^th – 2:08.17
• 1000m – Dylan Zhao – 32^nd – 2:45.12 *
• 200m – Leo Schiappa – 80^th – 23.75 seconds *
• 200m – Parker Jones – 81^st – 23.76 seconds