By: Adam Rubin
BOSTON — The LIU indoor track teams had a banner weekend at a pair of venues.
At Boston University on Saturday,
Elyas Ayyoub shattered the program's indoor 5000m record with a time of 14:06.13, besting the previous school mark of 14:25.7 set by Martin Ryan in 1992.
Also at that event,
Jonathan Gonzalez (2:26.21) and
Aidan Haughian (2:32.73) set PRs in the 1K.
Meanwhile,
Ainhoa Brea ran a 4:50.44 mile on Friday at BU while unattached. Otherwise, it would have topped the school record by six seconds.
And at the Fastrack National Invitational at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island, the highlights included:
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Faith Shaw and
Sade Panton with PRs in the weight throw, at 15.94m (fourth place) and 14.22m (12th), respectively.
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Rali Mihaylova finished second and had a PR in the 800m at 2:15.09.
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Shaunelle Wallace on Day 2 set a personal record in the 60m with a time of 7.75 while finishing third.
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London Claxton competed in her first 800m of the season and ran an indoor personal record of 2:20, which was good for 11th.
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Alessandra Pastor had season bests in the 200m on Day 1 and 400m on Day 2.
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Gabriela Ortuno and
Emily Ginty accomplished mile PRs.
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Jordan McKenzie produced an indoor personal record in the 200m on Saturday with a time of 21.83 and finished second.
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TJ Roberts had a season-best 8.5 and finished fourth in the 60m hurdles.
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Brandon Lopez on Friday had a season-best long jump of 5.73m.
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Langston Richardson on Day 1 produced an 800m time of 2:05.31 in his debut in the event, then had a time of 2:02.93 the following day.
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Connor Knight had a personal record in the weight throw (13.68) and shot put (11.93).
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Dustin Keomanikhoth on Day 2 had a season-best long jump of 5.79m.
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Julian Jimenez in the 800m and
Michael Kurpisz in the 400m had PRs.