Track & Field at the Farley Inter Regional
Friday, May 9 | 12 p.m.
Saturday, May 10 | 10 a.m.
Lee Track | Williamstown, Mass. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    The Babson track & field teams are sending seven men and seven women to compete at the Farley Inter Regional on the campus of Williams College on Friday and Saturday. 
•    The Beavers will get the weekend underway with the men's decathlon on Friday afternoon, which will be followed by a full day of competition on Saturday. 

NEW ENGLAND DIVISION III CHAMPIONSHIPS RECAP
•    Four athletes earned all-region honors as the Babson women placed 22nd among scoring teams, while the men tied for 34th at last weekend's New England Division III Championships at Coast Guard. 
•    Graduate student Matthew Campbell came in seventh with a career-best time of 32:44.85 in the men's 10,000-meter run, while first-year Patrick Allardi placed 11th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.18. 
•    First-year Amrit Rehal finished fourth with a mark of 5-feet, 3.25-inches in the high jump, junior Brooke Jankowski cleared 5-feet, 1.25-inches to place sixth and sophomore Colleen Corman took fifth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:07.21. 

ABOUT THE BABSON MEN
•    The Beavers totaled 79 points on the way to finishing fifth at the NEWMAC Championships on April 25-26. 
•    The weekend was highlighted by the trio of graduate student Anthony Rodriguez, first-year Nick Yacoub and senior Julian Ivarra sweeping the top three spots in the 10,000-meter run last Friday night. 
•    McDonough earned his second consecutive all-conference honor with a runner-up finish in the 100 meters (10.71), while first-year Matthew Vilela placed fourth overall in the decathlon. 
•    Rodriguez and Yacoub came in fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 5,000 meters, first-year Jackson Adams placed fifth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 57.41, and fellow rookies Dominic Smith and Noa Wong were separated by just 0.26 seconds in the 400 meters to claim sixth and seventh place. 

ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN
•    The Beavers totaled their third highest point total in program history (46) on the way to placing eighth at the NEWMAC Championships at Mount Holyoke on April 25-26. 
•    Rehal earned all-conference honors with her runner-up finish in the high jump (5-feet, 3.25-inches), while the trio of first-year Victoria Hart (15.08), Jankowski (15.59) and junior Julia Pike (15.93) finished third, fourth and sixth, respectively, in the 100-meter hurdles. 
•    Jankowski added a fifth-place showing with a career-best mark of 5-feet, 1.25-inches in the high jump, Corman took third with a time of 1:07.10 in the 400 hurdles, and junior Robyn Wilkes came in sixth in the 200 meters (26.15) and seventh in the 100 meters (12.61). 
•    First-year Annabelle Svenson added a sixth-place finish in the 5,000 meters with a time of 20:38.74, while classmate Kate Henderson finished seventh with a season-best mark of 109-feet, 5-inches in the javelin. 

FINISHING ON TOP
•    Rodriguez captured his third consecutive title in the 10,000 meters and became the only five-time NEWMAC champion last weekend's conference meet. 
•    A two-time NEWMAC Track Athlete of the Year, Rodriguez won the 10,000-meter run four times (2021, 2023-25) and also claimed the 5,000-meter title back in 2023. 

AMONG THE NATION'S BEST
•    The Babson men enter the weekend with four athletes ranked among the top 50 in Division III in their respective events as they make a push to qualify for the NCAA Championships. 
•    Rodriguez is 15th with a time of 29:43.74 in the 10,000 meters and 43rd in the 5000 meters (14:27.16), first-year Aithan Bezanson is 23rd in the decathlon with 6355 points and McDonough is 40th with his time of 10.56 in the 100 meters. 

ROOKIE RECORD SETTERS
•    Bezanson, who is set to compete in his second decathlon of the spring at Williams, set a school record with 6355 points in his debut at UMass back on April 9-10. He also set a new school mark with a time of 54.94 in the 400-meter hurdles at MIT on April 19. 
•    Rehal set a new Babson record by clearing 5-feet, 5-inches in the high jump in her collegiate debut at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational back on March 20. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers will travel to the UMass Amherst Last Chance Qualifier on Thursday, May 15.