BOSTON, Mass. – Bentley University sophomore Ryan Cadorette (Saco, Maine/ Thornton Academy) and senior teammate Sean Nee (West Yarmouth/Dennis-Yarmouth Reg. HS) ran to first place finishes during the Northeast-10 Conference Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center Saturday night.

Competing in the meet's longest event, the 5,000 meters,  Cadorette broke the tape in 15:03.92 to capture the race by 2.21 seconds over Stonehill's Joseph Santo. Bentley also earned  a third in the 5,000 with junior Erik Alatalo (Wilmington/Wilmington HS) recording a time of 15:09.55, a personal best by nearly 15 seconds.

Nee and Falcon sophomore Nick Skarin (Sunapee, N.H./Sunapee HS) were the first two  to across the finish line in the 800 in a field of 22 competitors. Nee (1:54.79) edged Skarin (1:54.86) by seven-hundredths of a second and Skarin beat the number three runner, Stonehill's Stephen Vercollone, by an identical margin. Skarin's time was a PR and good for seventh on Bentley's all-time list.

Junior Tim Bolick (Hopkinton/Hopkinton HS) achieved a PR while placing second in the 1000 meters. His time of 2:30.98, an improvement on his previous best by about three-quarters of a second, elevated him to 11th in program history.

Also scoring for the Falcons were sophomore Seamus Higgins (Randolph, N.J./Randolph HS) with a fifth in the 3,000 (8:48.20, a PR by 4.63 seconds) and graduate student Steve Maffiolini (Southington, Conn./Southington HS) with a sixth in the 400 (50.53 seconds).

Turning in solid efforts but just missing out on the top eight were sophomore Graham Chapski (East Greenwich, R.I./East Greenwich HS) and freshman Cody Murphy (Dunbarton, N.H./Goffstown HS). Chapski was ninth of 21 in the mile (4:28.11) and Murphy was 11th of 21 in the mile with his 9:03.37 a new personal best.

Bentley's highest finishing relay was the 4x800 with Bolick, Nee, Skarin and junior Greg Karpacz (Wayland/Wayland HS) placing sixth in 8:05.48.

As a team, Bentley was seventh of 11 with 54 points, improving on last year's showing by three places.

Next weekend, Bentley will be at Boston University for the New Englands.