ROCHESTER, NY – The Alfred University men's track & field team wrapped up its final invitational before the Empire 8 Outdoor Championships as the Saxons finished 14^th out of the 14 teams that scored team points at the University of Rochester Alumni Invitational on Saturday.
 
The Saxons scored seven team points with five of those coming from Aiden Chu (Beltsville, MD/Hauppauge) in his first collegiate track & field meet. Chu qualified for the All-Atlantic Regional Track & Field Championships (AARTFC) on Saturday as he ran a 15.71 in the 110-meter hurdles, earning the five points with his fourth place finish. The AARTFC-qualifying time is 15.80.
 
Noam Sokolovsky (East Lyme, CT/East Lyme) added the final two points when he finished seventh in the 400-meter dash with a time of 52.89. He was closely followed by Connor Kerr (Tioga, PA/Williamson) and Reign Peterson (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY/Hastings) as the pair finished 13^th and 14^th, respectively with times of 53.67 and 53.81.
 
Chu neared another scoring position as he clocked a time of 11.44 in the 100-meter dash, finishing ninth. Steven Jackson (Culpeper, VA/Eastern View) ran an 11.47 to finish 11^th in the race.
 
Kenneth Berlin (Erie, PA/Harbor Creek) was the final Saxon near a scoring outing as he continues to push his personal best mark forward, throwing a PR of more than five feet in the javelin. Berlin's previous mark was 38.33m (125'9") and threw a 39.94m (131'0") mark on Saturday to finish ninth, just two feet short of scoring a team point.
 
Other notable performances occurred on the track as George Mecca (Derby, NY/Eden) ran a 59.92 in the 400-meter hurdles to finish 10^th. John Wendt (Lewiston, NY/Lewiston-Porter) and Sokolovsky were 13^th and 17^th in the 200-meter dash, respectively with times of 23.45 and 23.53.
 
The Saxons will next compete in the two-day, Empire 8 Outdoor Track & Field Championships, hosted by neighboring Houghton College on Friday and Saturday, May 6 and May 7.