McDonough finishes runner-up in 100-meter dash as Beavers finish 11th
 
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass.— Senior Eric Bottern (Saint Paul, Minn.) repeated as the shot put champion and first-year Chris McDonough (North Andover, Mass.) finished runner-up in the 100-meter dash to lead the Babson College men's track & field team to an 11th place finish at the Division III New England Championships Saturday afternoon at Mount Holyoke College's Turf and Track.

The Beavers scored a program-record 29 points to tie for 11th place with Coast Guard and Wesleyan among the 33  teams that scored points, one point behind Southern Maine for the top 10, and surpassing the 19 points they scored in 2017. MIT ran away with the team title with 108.5 points, while Tufts (78.5) and Bowdoin (64) rounded out the top three.

Bottern captured his second straight New England title in the shot put with a mark of 56-feet, 1.25-inches, nearly three inches better than last year's winning throw. He outdistanced runner-up Sam Engebretson of MIT, who had a mark of 54-feet, 7.25-inches. Bottern also placed 28th in the discus with a mark of 121-feet, 2-inches.

McDonough finished second in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.84 seconds, the same time that won him the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) title a week ago. He was just behind LR Raye of Thomas College, who finished in 10.82 and just ahead of Ethan Shain of Southern Maine, who was third in 10.87.

Babson also earned All-New England honors in the 4x100 meter relay as senior Michael Agard (Marietta, Ga.), first-year Kainoa Ronquilio (Waipahu, Hawaii), senior Demarre Johnson (Dallas, Texas), and McDonough finished third in a time of 41.65 seconds.

Ronquilio turned in a ninth-place performance in the 400 meters in a season-best time of 49.58 seconds. Johnson took 15th in the 200 meters in a time of 22.51 seconds and Ronquilio was 24th in 22.73. Also representing the Beavers were first-year Stratton Seymour (Merrimac, Mass.), who finished 15th in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 56.94 seconds; junior Jack Reynolds (Fairfield, Conn.), who was 17th in the triple jump with a mark of 42-feet, 0.75-inches, and first-year Almond Nickerson IV (Darien, Conn.), who was 22nd in the 3000-meter steeplechase in a time of 10:15.61.

The Beavers will send a contingent of athletes who have qualified to the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championships at Holy Cross in Worcester on May 10-11.