Seniors Christopher DeForest and Keira Flaherty both finished with the fastest times in the respective men's 5,000-meter and women's 1,500-meter events at the Rider Invitational on Saturday in Lawrenceville, NJ at the Michael P. Brady Track and Field Complex. 

Flaherty clocked in at a personal-best 4:32.92, a time that was better than four seconds off the Yorktown Heights, NY native's time from last weekend in the Bison Outdoor Classic at Bucknell. 

The event remained a strong one for the Saints as three other finished inside the Top-8 including Claire Gardner, who was runner-up at 4:34.01, Mattingly O'Rourke came in fourth at 4:41.27 and Julianna Tourangeau was eighth (4:54.35). 

As for DeForest, his time of 14:59.63 was nearly six seconds better than second-place finisher Tomas Reimer of CPTC-Tracksmith.

The event proved to a be a strength for Siena as DeForest's teammates Colin Brown was third (15:09.58), Jake Passalugo placed fourth (15:13.30) and Colin Clinton closed out in sixth (15:13.76).

Other finishers in the women's events included:

• Jennifer McClintock saved her best performance for the 800-meter with a mark of 2:15.79 to earn a second-place finish.  Katie Hayes had a time of 2:25.04 for a 13^th place spot. 
• Katie Hesler (11:31.15) was second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase while Kaitlin DeForest earned points with a third-place showing (11:41.34)
• For the 5,000-meter, Chloe Poulos was the fastest Saint with a fifth place time of 18:10.28.  Olivia Armenia (14^th at 20:02.95) and Marissa Navarra (17^th at 20:55.54) were other Siena finishers in the race.
• In the 400-meter, Sara Fitzergerald came in 11^th with a time of 1:02.37
• Other finishes in the 1,500-meter included Christina Peppy in 18^th (5:07.82), Izzy McNamee in 20^th (5:08.510, Summer Reinoehl in 21^st (5:08.80), Faith Skowvron in 27^th (5:13.29) and Olivia Schaffer in 32^nd (5:33.84) 

On the men's side:

• Colin Brunelle placed second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:35.46).
• In the 1,500-meter, Jackson Cayward finished in eighth place (4:06.15) followed by Nate Sletten in 19^th (4:11.33) and Connor Thomas in 22^nd (4:14.59)
• Other finishes in the 5,000-meter included Jake Gogarty (15:29.18) in 10^th, Marcus Homa in 12^th (15:31.83), Evan Wattie (15:35.05) in 15^th and Brody Santagata placed 18^th (15:44.36) 
• Among the 800-meter finishers were Parris Porter (11^th in 1:58.80), Tyler Tkaczyk (13^th in 1:59.53), PJ Dauer in 19^th (2:20.87) and Ralston Frattarola in 24^th (2:04.80)
• In the 400-meter, Noah Smith clocked out in 52.61 for 21^st while Chris Murphy finished in 29^th at 54.73.

Up next, the Penn Relays will take April 24-26 at the University of Pennsylvania and the Capital District Classic will take place at RPI on April 25.