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PHILADELPHIA, PA - The University at Buffalo's men's and women's track and field teams posted five new school records and picked up a pair of victories at the annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Biaunca McFarland

UB senior Biaunca McFarland (Binghamton, NY/Binghamton) won the women's Eastern triple jump for the second time in the last three years. McFarland took the event with a jump of 40-11.50 (12.48m). The school-record holder in the event, McFarland won the same event in the 2001 Penn Relays at 40-2 (12.24m).

The UB women also posted a victory with a record-setting performance in the ECAC 4x800 relay championships on Saturday. The foursome of Christina Keck (Erie, PA/McDowell), Allison Laske (Canandaigua, NY/Canandaigua Academy), Jen Jezorski (Elmira, NY/Elmira Southside) and Kate Kohout (Clarence, NY/Clarence) turned in a time of 8:51.81, slicing more than 10 seconds off the previous record set in 2000.

Two other women's relay teams also set records. The 4x400 squad also broke a school record in the event's preliminary heats. The foursome of Jenelle Callender (Brooklyn, NY/Brooklyn Tech), Keck, Krystal Seiling (Lewiston, NY/Lewiston-Porter) and McFarland turned in a 3:46.60 clocking to break the previous mark by two seconds and move into the championship round. The team then finished eighth in the finals on Saturday with a time of 3:48.40. The 4x200 team of Callender, Pauletta Dickerson (Wichita, KS/Northeast Magnet), Seiling and McFarland posted a 1:39.40 showing to finish fourth in its heat and 25th overall to break the mark set by the same foursome in March.

Women's pole vaulter Laura Olson (Lyons, NY/Lyons) again shattered her own mark in the event. Olson placed second overall with a vault of 13-1.50 (4.00m) to finish behind only Arkansas' April Steiner who vaulted 14-0 (4.27m). It was the fourth time this season that Olson had bettered her own record and improved on the 13-0.25 (3.97m) mark she had posted the week before in winning the UB Chancellor's Cup meet.

Men's distance specialist Jerimie Slick (Rochester, NY/Greece-Olympia) blazed to a new record in the 5,000-meter run. Slick sliced nearly 20 seconds off of Todd Ludden's (Hornell, NY/Hornell) mark of 2002 with his time of 14:14.54. It also qualified Slick for the NCAA Regional meet later this season.

Other individuals turning in impressive marks at the prestigious meet included men's weight thrower Keith Gentes (Warwick, RI/Bishop Hendricken). Gentes placed fourth in the hammer throw with a toss of 185-1 (56.41m). Men's pole vaulter Dan Simpson (Rochester, NY/Gates-Chili) tied for fifth in his event with a leap of 15-1 (4.60m). Faith Thompson (Niagara Falls, NY/Niagara Falls) finished eighth in the Eastern shot put at 43-5 (13.23m).