CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In the leadup to this Saturday's Little East Conference Track & Field Championships, six Eastern Connecticut State University individuals won events, seventeen posted personal-bests, three qualified for the New England Division III Championships, and three improved upon their New England-qualifying marks Saturday at the Gordon Kelly Invitational hosted by MIT at the Johnson Athletic Center.

• Individual winners: seniors Ahriyan Brown (New Britain) in the 200 (PR of 26.55), JahDey Wright (Colchester) in the triple jump (PR of 43-7 ¼ (13.29m), and Samantha McKosky (Deep River) in the 800 (PR of 2:21.26), sophomores Kyle Smith (Manchester) in the 800 (PR of 2:04.71) and Ryan Escoda (Newtown) in the mile (4:28.55), and freshman Cory Bill (Mansfield) in the 400 (PR of 52.20).
• McKosky qualified for the New England Championships in the 800, as did junior Lauren Bresson (Roxbury) in the 800 (PR of 2:27.92) with a fourth-place finish and sophomore   Manar Enany (Fairfield) in the weight throw (PR of 44-10 ¾ (13.68m) with a fifth-place finish.
• Wright improved his New England-qualifying mark in the triple jump with his third straight PR, Brown improved her New England time in the 200 and freshman Wendie Stewart (Hartford) in the shot (38-10 1/4) (11.84m) with a third-place finish.
• Also finishing ahead of the field were the men's 4x400 relay (3:37.59) and the women's 4x800 relay (10:03.86).
• The indoor record-holder in the 60, Brown's time of 26.55 in the 200 was .16 seconds off the ten-year-old record.
•  Additional personal-records: seniors Nicklas Brink (Stockholm, Sweden) in the 200 (23.79), Kevin Russell (Berlin) (1:30.40) and Holly Dulak (Northford) in the 600 (1:47.38), Samara Johnson (Lebanon) in the mile (5:32.27) and Brittany Kriley (Fair Lawn, NJ) equaling her best in the long jump (15-0 (4.57m), junior Justin Gomez-Stafford (New Haven) in the 400 (54.16), sophomore John Walker (Westerly, RI) in the 3000 (9:23.97), and freshmen Keara Fontaine (North Kingstown, RI) and Jill McGahan (Dedham, MA) in the 3000 with times of 11:45.17 and 12:12.98, respectively.
• Junior Maxwell Chace (Brooklyn) was timed in 16:32.24 in his first try in the indoor 5000.
•  Thus far, there are ten New England qualifiers to date: seniors McKosky in the 800 (26^th), 1000 (32^nd), mile (28^th) and 3000 (38^th), Hayley Brodeur (Old Saybrook) in the 400 (ranked 42^nd), Brown in the 60 (16^th) and 200 (22^nd), Maggie Dulak (Northford) in the 1000 (55^th), Kriley in the high jump (t-15^th), and Wright in the triple jump (t-18^th), junior Bresson in the 800 (72^nd), sophomores Enany in the weight (21^st), and Rahman Oteng (Accra, Ghana) in the 60 (t-1^st) and 200 (7^th) and Stewart is the top-seeded freshman in the shot (7^th).