UTICA, NY – Siena Indoor Track put up another solid performance Saturday at the Pioneer Invitational in Utica, New York. The event marked the second time the Saints competed at the Todd and Jen Hutton Sports and Recreation Center this season.
Siena's women's team scored 64 points for a fifth-place finish, while the men finished seventh with 41 points.
The top performance of the day came from senior Olivia Lomascolo who set a personal best and ran the third-fastest time in program history in the women's 800 with a first-place time of 2:18.46. The mark was good for the program's fastest in indoor track, surpassing the previous mark of 2:19.70 by Morgan Serkes in 2019. Lomascolo also placed first in the mile with an impressive time of 5:08.34.
Classmate Holly Bednarek joined Lomascolo in setting an indoor program record at the meet, running a time of 29.28 in the 200 for a rare sprint even appearance for the Saints. Bednarek already holds the team best marks in the 200, 400, and 500. Furthermore, junior Ryan Famiglietti set a new program mark in the 400 with a time of 51.71.
The Saints, who took home a handful of first-place event finishes, saw freshman Lizzie Brown win the 5000 with a time of 18:55.03. On the men's side, junior Aidan Gillooley placed first in the 3000 with a time of 8:37.24, while classmate Peter Alden took fifth with a time of 8:59.14. Junior Matthew Laframboise took second in the 800 with a mark of 1:57.20.
Joining Lomascolo with a top-3 individual finish in the women's mile was freshman Claire Gardner, who placed third with a personal best mark of 5:20.02, while sophomores Jennifer McClintock (5:37.68) and Isabella Painter (5:43.11) placed fifth and sixth, respectively. Freshman Christina Peppy took third place in the 3000 with a time of 11:00.91, while sophomore Miranda Gilbert went for sixth place at 11:06.84.
Both teams also participated in the distance medley relay, with the women's group of Gardner, McClintock, senior Olivia Durant, and Lomascolo taking first with a time of 12:39.18, while the men's pairing of sophomore Griffin Cooke, freshman Nik Springer, Famiglietti, and Laframboise placed third with a mark of 10:54.79.
Siena's next indoor track venture will take them back to Boston, Massachusetts for the David Hemery Valentine Invitational February 11-12.
