Moon Township, Pa. - Junior Nick Gentile (Sarver, Pa. / Freeport) broke two school records over the weekend as the Robert Morris University men's track & field team finished ninth out of 31 teams in the Colonial Relays at the College of William and Mary.

Gentile's time of 1:52.98 in the 800-meter run tops the Colonial record books and gave him an 11th-place finish in the event. He also was the anchor of the record-breaking 4x800-meter relay team, which finished seventh with a time of 7:43.70.

Along with Gentile, the 4x800-meter relay team included junior Freddie Thompson (Turtle Creek, Pa. / Woodland Hills), freshman Sachin Natarajan (Plainsboro, N.J. / West Windsor-Plainsboro North), and junior Dorian Rumble (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Penn Hills).

RMU also picked up points in four other track events. Freshman Mark Ayitey (East Pittsburgh, Pa. / Woodland Hills) finished sixth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.31 seconds, while senior Tyler Morton's (Silver Spring, Md. / Springbrook) time of 15.22 seconds added a seventh-place mark in the 110-meter high hurdles.

Morton joined juniors Jermaine Dwight (Wyncote, Pa. / Cheltenham Township) and Abraham Roy (Middletown, Pa. / Middletown Area), and sophomore Malcolm Ayers (Clarksburg, Md. / Clarksburg) on the sixth-place 4x200-meter relay team, which clocked in with a time of 1:28.96. Dwight also brought home a sixth-place mark with a time of 49.27 seconds in the 400-meter dash.

Senior Collin Ray (Middletown, Pa. / Middletown Area) led the throwers with a third-place finish in the shot put. His toss of 15.85 meters (52'00.00") placed him right ahead of fellow Colonial senior Chuck Thurner-Diaz (Camp Hill, Pa. / Camp Hill), who had a top throw of 15.81 meters (51'10.50"). In addition, Thurner-Diaz added a fifth-place mark in the hammer throw with a toss of 47.46 meters (155'08").

Another RMU senior, Lance Washington (East Stroudsburg, Pa. / Stroudsburg), finished eighth in the triple jump with a leap of 13.87 meters (45'06.25").