NEW LONDON, Conn.—Two members of the Babson College men's and women's track & field teams recorded top-10 finishes to open the New England Division III Championships on Friday afternoon at Nitchman Track on the campus of the Coast Guard Academy. 

The Beavers' top individual finish of the day came in the men's 10,000-meter run where graduate student Matthew Campbell (South Easton, Mass.) came in seventh with a career-best time of 32:44.85. He was inside the top 10 for the entirety of the race and his final lap was his fastest of the race (1:11.33) to beat his previous best time by nearly three seconds. 

First-year Patrick Allardi (Andover, Mass.) also competed for the men on Friday and placed 11th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.18. 

The Babson women were led by first-year Victoria Hart (Greenwich, Conn.), who missed qualifying for the finals by a tenth of a second with her time of 15.21, which was good for ninth place in the 100-meter hurdles prelims. Junior Brooke Jankowski (Derry, N.H.) came in 12th with a time of 15.41, while classmate Julia Pike (Mansfield, Mass.) crossed the finish line in a time of 16.15. 

Junior Robyn Wilkes (Atlanta, Ga.) competed in the first of her two events this weekend on Friday, finishing 16th in the prelims of the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.52 that was just 0.01 seconds off her season-best time set at MIT back on April 19. 

The second day of competition at the New England Division III Championships begins on Saturday at 10 a.m.