AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY [Results]
Mines went seven-for-seven on NCAA provisional times to open the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston University.

Five Oredigger women ran the 5,000m and all five set NCAA provisional times led by Zoe Baker and Molly Maksin, who virtually assured their trip to nationals with national top-five performances. Baker laid down the new #3 time in D-II and Maksin the #4 performance; Baker came just a second from her program record finishing in 16:17.62, while Maksin set a huge personal best in 16:25.27. Jenna Ramsey joined in the NCAA provisional times with a 16:45.13 which should put her inside the national top 15, and Holly Moser (17:07.02) and Grace Strongman (17:16.66) also beat the NCAA standard.

Clare Peters and Alex Raichart started the day on the track in the mile and both laid down NCAA provisional times. For Peters, her 4:49.60 becomes the NCAA #15 time of the season as she set a nine-second personal best for the Mines #3 all-time performance; Raichart ran 4:54.52 to improve her season best by a hundredth of a second. 

Mines' men will take to the track on Saturday competing in the mile, 3K, and 5K. 

AT PITT STATE [Results]
Mines got the Gorilla Classic at Pitt State started with some solid performances on Friday.

On the track, Max Sevcik had a good run in the men's 5,000m to finish fifth in 14:32.15, his collegiate best at that distance, and Jeremiah Vaille was 14th in 14:52.49, also a personal best. Brin Strouse finished sixth in the women's race with a 17:24.96 time, and Margaux Basart was 10th in 17:32.76 with Ashleigh Loe 18th in 17:50.92. 

Avery Wright ran 9.15 seconds for ninth in the 60m hurdles, a five-hundreths PR, with Sidney Walshaw running 14.08. 

It was a relatively light Friday in the field events with most of Mines' entrants set to compete on Saturday. Lexye Wood finished 10th in the long jump with a best attempt of 5.58m, Wright cleared 1.54m to finish ninth in the open high jump, and Kitt Rupar threw 13.86m for 20th in the weight throw and Brody Welch hit 14.20m to finish 33rd. 

NEXT UP
Mines continues competition at both meets on Saturday.