UTICA, N.Y. – Hamilton College's Joseph Simeone '26 captured first place and qualified for the All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference Indoor Championships in the 3,000-meter run at Utica University's Pioneer Fast Trax Invitational on Saturday.
 
The Continentals finished in third place out of 15 teams. Simeone's season-best time of 8:49.85 made the cut by 15 one-hundredths of a second. Hamilton swept the top three spots in the 3,000 meters as Bram Mansbach '24 was runner-up and Edward Trenk '25 ended up in third place.
 
TEAM SCORES

1. Utica 139
2. Lock Haven 130
3. Hamilton 79 

TOP PERFORMANCES
200-meter dash
Rasikh Shaukat '25, 13^th place of 50, 23.99 seconds
600-meter run
Benjamin Ingram '25, 4^th place, 1:26.49
800-meter run
Hugh Williams '26, 7^th place, 2:00.20
Mile run
George Brady '23, 3^rd place, 4:25.22
Brogan Deem-Ranzetta '24, 9^th place, 4:34.83
3,000 meters
Simeone, 1^st place, 8:49.85 (AARTFC cut)
Mansbach, 2^nd place, 8:51.29
Trenk, 3^rd place, 8:54.03
60-meter hurdles finals
Edwin Mensah-Boateng '25, 3^rd place, 8.86 seconds
4x400-meter relay
3^rd place (Phillip Le '24, Williams, Ingram, Deem-Ranzetta), 3:40.59
Long jump
Peter Cuomo '24, 2^nd place, 6.49 meters
Shot put
Michael Fasano '25, 5^th place, 12.80 meters
 
NEXT MEET
A few Continentals will compete in Boston University's David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Friday, Feb. 10 and Saturday, Feb. 11. The rest of the team participates in Rochester Institute of Technology Friday Meet #2 starting at 4 p.m.