MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.— Graduate student Anthony Rodriguez (Prairie View, Ill.) finished fourth in the mile run to pace the Babson College men's track & field team on day two at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational on Friday afternoon inside Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium. 

Rodriguez finished fourth in a time of 4:23.89 in the field of 30 entries, a little over a second behind Keiser (Fla.) first-year Yanis Le Mouillour, who was third in 4:22.76. It was the first official mile run for Rodriguez, who hold the program records in the 5000 and 10,000 meters. Fellow graduate student Ryan Wilson (Mount Sinai, N.Y.) took sixth place out of 33 runners in Friday's 5000 meters in a time of 15:41.84.

Babson first-years Patrick Allardi (Andover, Mass.), Aithan Bezanson (Danvers, Mass.), and Evan Dang (Fremont, Calif.) had outstanding collegiate debuts in the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries. Allardi and Bezanson qualified in fifth and seventh place, respectively, for Saturday's final in times of 15.39 and 15.43 seconds, times that are ninth and 10th fastest in program history. Dang finished 15th in a time of 16.83, and Bezanson was also 15th in the long jump with a leap of 21-feet, 1.25-inches.

First-years Noa Wong (Kaneohe, Hawaii) and Dominic Smith (Aspen, Colo.) had solid performances in their collegiate debuts in the 400 meters; Wong took eighth place in a time of 51.10 seconds and Smith was 13th in 51.50.

Rounding out Babson's athletes were sophomore Chris McDonough (North Andover, Mass.) and first-year Timothy Kelm (Eliot, Maine), who competed in the 100-meter dash preliminaries. McDonough was 29th out of 99 sprinters in a time of 11.00 second flat and Kelm was 44th in 11.18 seconds.

The event concludes on Saturday as the field events get underway at 9 a.m., while the track events are set to start at 10 a.m.