SOUTH HADLEY, Mass.— The Babson College men registered eight top five finishes on the way to a fifth-place finish at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) track & field championships Saturday afternoon at rainy Mount Holyoke College.

The Beavers finished in fifth place with 79 points, third most in program history and just one point shy of the 80 points they scored in 2023, and eight points behind fourth-place Coast Guard. WPI captured its second NEWMAC championship and first since 2021 with 241 points, MIT finished second with 196 points, and Springfield finished third with 125.

Sophomore Chris McDonough (North Andover, Mass.) earned All-Conference honors with a second place finish in the 100-meter dash in a time of 10.71 seconds. First-year Matthew Vilela (Framingham, Mass.) ended up in fourth place in the decathlon with 4,442 points after some strong performances on Saturday. He finished second with season-best showings in the discus (103-feet, 8-inches) and 1500 meters (5:21.53) and also took second in the javelin with a mark of 112-feet, 1-inch.

After taking the top three places in Friday night's 10,000 meters, graduate student Anthony Rodriguez (Prairie View, Ill.), first-year Nick Yacoub (Sharon, Mass.) and junior Julian Ivarra (Plano, Texas) had solid finishes in the 5,000 meters on Saturday. Rodriguez brought home fourth place with a time on 15:09.08, Yacoub crossed the finish line in fifth place in 15:11.28, and Ivarra ran a season-best 15:44.63 to place 13th.

First-years Dominic Smith (Aspen, Colo.) and Noa Wong (Kaneohe, Hawaii) came in sixth and seventh, respectively, in the 400 meters in times of 50.53 and 50.79, with Smith matching his season best.

Smith and Wong anchored the 4x400-meter relay team that was led off by classmates Jackson Adams (Norwell, Mass.) and Brian Ronayne (Reading, Mass.) and finished fourth in a season-best time of 3:26.97. Smith and Wong were also joined by classmates Patrick Allardi (Andover, Mass.) and Aithan Bezanson (Danvers, Mass.) for a fifth place in the 4x100-meter relay in a season-best time of 42.55 seconds.

The Beavers had solid finishers in the hurdle events, as Adams produced a fifth place in the 400-meter race in a time of 57.41 seconds, and sophomore Stratton Seymour (Merrimac, Mass.) finished in 11th in 59.70. Allardi crossed the line in eighth place in the 110 hurdles in 15.47 seconds.

Other Beavers who posted season-best times on the track included Ronayne in the 800 meters (1:59.87), Smith in the 200 meters (22.50), and sophomore Ethan Jina (Carlisle, Mass.) in the 1500 meters (4:16.23).

The top Beaver performances in field events included a fifth place in the discus by junior Joseph Addotta (Ridgefield, Conn.) with a career-best mark of 132-feet, 9-inches; a seventh place in the shot put by sophomore Coleman Hayes (New York, N.Y.) with a season-best mark of 42-feet, 6-inches; and a seventh place in the triple jump by sophomore Jordan Wright (Haworth, N.J.) with a season-best leap of 41-feet, 1.75-inches.

Babson will send its top performers to the Division III New England Championships next Friday and Saturday at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.