BOSTON, Mass. – Junior Brennan Delany broke the meet record in the men's heptathlon and senior Alyssa Armitage won her fourth straight women's pole vault title, highlighting Binghamton's performance at the America East Indoor Track & Field Championships. The two-day meet, which concluded on Saturday, took place at the Boston University Track & Tennis Center. In the final team standings, both the Bearcat men's and women's squads finished fourth out of nine teams.

Including Armitage and Delany, Binghamton came away with seven individual champions during the weekend. They were joined by junior Putu Sutayasa (men's long jump), graduate student Hillary Abankwa (women's 500) and senior Joe Cardascia (men's 400). In addition, Binghamton swept both the men's and women's jump events as junior Matthew Oluwole and sophomore Olivia Misiukiewicz each placed first.

Delany's score of 5,776 points shattered the previous America East record of 5,262 points set by David Brown of UAlbany in 2008. Delaney came into the weekend ranked No. 23 in the nation with a season-best heptathlon score of 5,614 points. With the top 16 performances advancing to the NCAA Championships, Delany has since strengthened his position to advance to that meet, which will be held March 13-14 at the University of Arkansas.

For his career, Delaney now has three career individual conference championships. He won the heptathlon for the second year in a row and also captured the decathlon at the America East outdoor meet last May,

At the conclusion of the indoor meet, Delaney was named the Men's Most Outstanding Field Athlete. He is the second straight Binghamton athlete to win the award during the indoor season, following current redshirt junior Brian Luciano last year. This marks the second major award for Delaney, who was also named the Men's Most Outstanding Rookie at the outdoor championships last year.

Armitage, meanwhile, is the first Binghamton female athlete ever to win an America East track & field title four years in a row. She recorded a winning height of 12-5 ½. Junior Sydney McKenney was fourth (10-10) and fellow junior Ella Hamby was seventh (also 10-10).

After redshirting last season, Abankwa won her second 500 title in three years, clocking a first place time of 1:13.27. She led a 1-2-3-4 sweep by the Bearcats in that event, with junior Kaya Duran (1:14.61), sophomore Savanna Edwards (1:14.86) and freshman Gabrielle Rothstein (1:15.16) following her in the results.

The closest title of the weekend was won by Cardascia. After winning the first of two 400 heats with a time of 47.41, he watched the second heat which was won by Michael Fisher of UMass Lowell with the same time. The computer timing system, however, had Cardascia winning the overall event by just .005 seconds.

Oluwole now has two career America East high jump titles, having also captured the 2024 outdoor championship. His first-place height this weekend was 6-9. Misiukiewicz, meanwhile, cleared 5-7 to win her first career title. As a freshman, she placed 10th in the same event. 

Sutayasa, meanwhile, bagged his first career conference title, posting a distance of 23-10 in the long jump. He was fourth in the event last year as well as third at the ensuing outdoor championships.

The women's pentathlon and men's pole vault were also well represented by the Bearcats. Senior Logan Wheeler was the runner-up in the pentathlon (3,320), junior Alexa Colondona was third (3,267), freshman Bella Lucas was sixth (3,158) and fellow freshman Sophia Deja was seventh (3,085). Freshman Owen Keating was second in the pole vault (16-0 ¾), sophomore Jacob Park was third (15-9) and freshman Todd Korman was seventh (15-1). 

Another runner-up finish was turned in by freshman Micah Davis, who was second in the men's 200 (21.63).

Abankwa, Edwards and Rothstein concluded the meet by joining freshman Saida Assabahi to finish second in the women's 4x400 relay (3:47.29). Assabahi also placed sixth in the 400 (57.21). The men's 4x400 relay team of Cardascia, Davis, Korman and freshman Alex Poje placed third (3:13.34).

In addition, both the women's distance medley relay (DMR) and 4x800 relay teams earned bronze medals with times of 11:43.31 and 9:12.33 respectively. Juniors Vicky Mordvinova and Brynn Hogan ran in both races. Sophomores Anna Gansrow and Cassidy Robleno also competed in the DMR while Duran and redshirt freshman Eleanor Lees were on the 4x800 relay.

Lees also broke the Binghamton freshman record in the women's 1,000. Her sixth-place time of 2:52.32 broke Mordvinova's 2024 mark of 2:58.65.

All-conference honors were awarded to the top three individual finishers in each event as well as all first-place relay teams. Binghamton posted seven all-conference selections while the women had six honorees.

UMass Lowell won the men's team championship while on the women's side, UMBC won its first-ever America East title.

BINGHAMTON'S MEN'S ALL-CONFERENCE SELECTIONS (7)
Brennan Delany, Putu Sutayasa, Joe Cardascia, Matthew Oluwole, Owen Keating, Jacob Park, Micah Davis

BINGHAMTON'S WOMEN'S ALL-CONFERENCE SELECTIONS (6)
Alyssa Armitage, Hillary Abankwa, Olivia Misiukiewicz, Savanna Edwards, Kaya Duran, Alexa Colondona, Logan Wheeler

FINAL MEN'S STANDINGS 
UMass Lowell 172.50, UAlbany 163, UMBC 100, Binghamton 93, Maine 87, New Hampshire 74, Bryant 44.50, NJIT 39, Vermont 7

FINAL WOMEN'S STANDINGS
UMBC 163, UAlbany 143, Bryant  116.83, Binghamton 114, NJIT 58, New Hampshire 55, Vermont 50.83, UMass Lowell 46, Maine 33.33

TOP BINGHAMTON MEN'S FINISHERS
Putu Sutayasa, 1st, Long Jump (23-10)
Matthew Oluwole, 1st, High Jump (6-9)
Joe Cardascia, 1st, 400 (47.41)
Brennan Delany, 1st, Heptathlon (5,776)
Owen Keating, 2nd, Pole Vault (16-0 3/4)
Micah Davis, 2nd. 200 (21.63)
Jacob Park, 3rd, Pole Vault (15-9)
Brian Luciano, 4th, Weight Throw (64-10)
Jaston Ormsby, 5th, Weight Throw (63-5)
Todd Korman, 7th, Pole Vault (15-1)
Bradley Pollard, 8th, Weight Throw (56-11 1.4)
Andrew Rosenblatt, 8th, 5,000 (14:32.45)
Samson Joseph, 8th, 200 (33.65)

TOP BINGHAMTON WOMEN'S FINISHERS
Alyssa Armitage, 1st, Pole Vault (12-5 1/2)
Olivia Misiukiewicz, 1st, High Jump (5-7)
Hillary Abankwa, 1st, 500 (1:13.27)
Kaya Duran, 2nd, 500 (1:14.61)
Logan Wheeler, 2nd, Pentathlon (3,320)
Savanna Edwards, 3rd, 500 (1:14.86)
Alexa Colondona, 3rd, Pentathlon (3,267)
Sydney McKenney, 4th, Pole Vault (10-10)
Deborah Estabine, 4th, Shot Put (44-4)
Gabrielle Rothstein, 4th, 500 (1:15.16)
Samson Joseph, 4th, 60 (6.82)
Sydney Leitner, 5th, 5,000 (17:01.05)
Eleanor Lees, 6th, 1,000 (2:52.32)
Saida Assabahi, 6th, 400 (57.21)
Bella Lucas, 6th, Pentathlon (3,258)
Ella Hamby, 7th, Pole Vault (10-10)
Anna Gansrow, 7th, 3,000 (9:32.84)
Sophia Deja, 7th, Pentathlon (3,085)
Deborah Estabine, 8th, Weight Throw (55-11 1/4)
Addison Lazarek, 8th, Triple Jump (38-0 1/4)
Victoria Payne, 8th, 60 Hurdles (8.90)