UMaine sent the women’s 4×400-meter relay team of seniors Lindsay Burlock and Vicki Tolton, junior Ally Howatt and freshman Jesse Labreck. The relay bested the standing event record with a time of 3:47.66 in the preliminary rounds.

That record stood until the women became the first UMaine team to compete in the finals at the Penn Relays. After finishing 21st out of 84 teams, the Black Bears competed in the ECAC division, taking seventh place in a record-smashing time of 3:44.73.

Those in the relay also ran the 4×100 meter relay in a time of 47.74 seconds, which earned them 36th place out of 84 teams.

The women’s contingent had yet to field a 4×800-meter team this outdoor season, but the team of senior Stephanie Jette, junior Vanessa Letourneau and freshmen Jenny Lucy and Corey Conner broke the standing record on their first attempt, running 9:07.96. The team earned 16th out of 29 places.

Throwers Rebecca Even and Jessica Bond were slated to compete in the hammer throw and javelin, respectively, but neither was listed among the final results.

Even’s school record toss of 175’2″ would have been good for the top spot.

The men’s team fielded no relay teams, but two individual performers competed. Junior Miles Bartlett, who stated earlier in the year that his goal was to qualify for the meet, earned a 9th place finish in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:21.95.

The winning time of 9:07.50 was still a far cry from Bartlett’s school record of 8:53.69, which he still has hopes of breaking in the coming weeks.

“Penn’s definitely got me prepared for conferences and beyond by allowing me to get used to steepling in a pack,” Bartlett said. “One of the hardest things to do is hurdle when you have people all around you. It gets messy, and if you get tripped at the wrong spot, your race could be over.”

Freshman Riley Masters finished outside of the top spot for the first time this season, taking a respectable seventh place in the Olympic Development division of the 5,000-meter run.

Masters bested his own school record in the event with a time of 14:23.25, and was pleased with the level of competition offered at the national level.

“There were a lot of big name schools there, like Georgetown, Villanova and Arkansas, making the competition a lot more intimidating than our regular season meets,” Masters said. “I was able to run a good seed time, which will set me up to do well at America East, hopefully.”

The America East meet will be held next weekend in Binghamton, N.Y. Preseason polls peg the women to finish fifth and the men sixth in the conference.