Full Results
ALLIANCE – The Franciscan men's and women's track and field teams ran at the Jim Wuske Collegiate Invitational, hosted by Mount Union on Saturday. Between the two squads, the Barons brought home 14 top-10 finishes including three first-place times.

Sophomore Liam Galligan led the bunch with a pair of individual wins and helped the 4x400-meter relay team to a first-place finish. Galligan's first win of the day came in the 1-mile run after he crossed the line at 4:21.66, five seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. The sophomore then won the 800-meter run as he led a group of four Barons in the race with a time of 2:00.57, just a step ahead of the second-place finisher (2:00.97).
 
Galligan and his teammates, Austen Duggan, Carlo Fabian, and James Craig won the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:36.46, less than a second ahead of the next team.
 
Senior Nick Long turned in a pair of top-five performances with second-place showing in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 9:03.48 and a fourth-place finish in the 1,000-meter run at 2:46.42.
 
Sophomore Mark Borek joined Long with a top-five finish in the 3,000-meter run as he crossed the finish line at 9:05.69 in his only race of the day.
 
Duggan picked up an individual top-10 finish as he took sixth overall in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:04.92. Craig posted a 10^th-place finish in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.03 and Fabian narrowly missed a top-10 finish as he crossed the line at 54.71 for 11^th overall.
 
Freshman Allison Bryant took 10^th overall in the 3,000-meter run for the Lady Barons first top-10 finish of the day with a time of 11:27.17. Classmate Elizabeth Atkins turned in an eighth-place finish in the 1-mile run as she crossed the line at 5:47.64.
 
Freshmen Claire Dawyot and Ashlin LaFond helped the Lady Barons to two more top-10 finished in the 800-meter run. Dawyot finished a step ahead of the next runner to take third overall with a time of 2:29.43. LaFond finished at 2:34.55 to take 10^th overall.
 
Freshman Taylor Smith finished fourth overall in the 5,000-meter run as she crossed the line at 22:41.22.
 
The women's 4x400-meter relay team of senior Grace Galligan, Dawyot, LaFond, and sophomore Beth Flanagan took fifth with a time of 4:33.85.