University of Massachusets Athletics
Minutemen 10th At New England Championships
July 28, 2003 | Men's Track & Field
May 10, 2003
AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts men's track and field team scored 28.5 points to finish 10th at the 2003 New England Championships Saturday afternoon at the University of New Hampshire's Reginald F. Atkins Track Facility in Durham, N.H. Rhode Island won the 38-team meet with 127 points, while Southern Connecticut State (105), Northeastern (46), UMass-Lowell (41), Boston U. (39), Maine (36), Boston College (32), Bates (31), Williams (31) and the Minutemen rounded out the top 10.
UMass senior sprinter Kwesi Frimpong-Boateng (Accra, Ghana) claimed the 100-meter dash title in 10.38, and in the process, ran his win streak in the event to six-straight races since a sixth-place finish (out of 156 competitors) at North Carolina State's adidas Raleigh Relays, March 29.
Sophomore Andy McCarron (Lunenburg, Mass.) finished third in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 31:39.00, while the Minutemen received sixth-place efforts from junior John O'Neil (North Reading, Mass.) in the 400-meter hurdles (53.99), senior Ken Scheider (Woodridge, N.J.) in the pole vault (14-9) and senior Eric Uliano (Haverhill, Mass.) in the shot put (51-6 1/4).
Sophomore Henry Smith (Ellington, Conn.) was eighth in the triple jump (45-7 1/4), a season-best mark and the fifth-best performance by an Atlantic 10 Conference student-athlete this spring. Senior Dave Hantman (Cambridge, Mass.) was 10th in the 10,000-meter run in 32:29.29.
Massachusetts' 4 x 400-meter relay team finished sixth in 3:20.79, and its 4 x 800-meter relay unit was ninth in 8:01.82.
Freshman Chris Brayley (Chicopee, Mass.) placed 13th in the 200-meter dash prelims with a time of 22.72, but did not advance to the finals. Another UMass rookie, Brandon Phillips (Stoughton, Mass.), was 14th in the 110-meter hurdles prelims (15.59) and did not advance to the finals.
Select members of the UMass team will travel to Princeton, N.J., for the IC4A Championships, May 17-18.