Lavell Handy had a pair of top five finishes and   Mandissa Marshall had a second-place finish while nine individual Patriots and one relay team qualified for the IC4A/ECAC Championships at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational at the New York Armory.

Handy was fifth in the championship 60-meter hurdles   with a time of 8.00 while finishing second in the college long jump with a leap of 7.50 meters. Marshall, meanwhile, cleared 4.00 meters in the college pole vault. Both had already qualified for the IC4A/ECAC meets in those events.

There were several other Patriots who posted qualifying marks while competing in championship-level events. Rachaunn Ruffin ran the 60-meters with an IC4A qualifying time of 6.96. Ja-Vell Bullard and Nick Vaughn ran the 400-meters with times of 48.76 and 49.08, respectively. Finally, Robert Reynolds recorded a 2:28.03 time in the 1000-meters. On the women's side, Rochelle Sceats posted a time of 17:09.65 in the 5000-meters, the third-fastest time in school history. The women also got a strong performance from freshman Daianna Barron who finished the 400-meters in 56.36.

Two men qualified for the IC4A while running in college-level events. Travaughn Baker-Johnson ran a 22.13 in the college 200-meter prelims finishing fourth and qualifying for Saturday's final, and Adrian Vaughn competed in the college 400-meters, posting a time of 49.11. The final individual qualifier came on the women's side as Crystal Clark met the ECAC standard in the 200-meters by just .01 seconds. She ran a 25.03 in the prelims of the event, finishing sixth and qualifying for Saturday's final. Also qualifying was the women's 4X800 relay team of Victoria Samyn , Samantha Fickel , Laura Sinclair and Kimmy Moss .

Baker-Johnson also had a seventh-place finish in the college 60-meters while Kevin Wilson finished seventh in the championship 500-meters. Wilson had already qualified for the IC4A but his time on Friday was the best by a Patriot this season.

The meet concludes on Saturday.