The men's indoor track team left the Patriot Games in Fairfax, Va. with one first-place finish, one second-place finish and one injured distance runner.

Senior Harry Stants led the way for the Lions with a first-place finish in the 5,000 meters.

Senior Bob Hamer was the runner-up in the mile run, but later broke his collarbone in a collision at the start of the 800.

Stants, who finished with a time of 14 minutes, 58.54 seconds, said his performance was important because it indicated that he had recovered from an ankle injury.

"It was kind of a turning point for me because I was injured over Christmas, and this is the first time I was able to do well this year," he said. "This race showed me where I am right now and where I'll have to be later in the year when we get into some really tough races."

Hamer's injury came at the start of the 800. He said he got cut off at the beginning of the race and lost his balance.

"I got spun around and landed on my shoulder," Hamer said. "At first, I thought I dislocated my shoulder, but it turned out I broke my collarbone in a few places."

Hamer said he will be able to run again as soon as he can deal with the pain.

"I just can't get banged around much," he added.

Before his injury, Hamer took second-place in the mile, where he was edged out by Georgetown's Eric O'Brien.

"I did everything that I wanted until three-quarters of the way through the race," Hamer said. "(O'Brien) passed me and I couldn't kick it into gear like I wanted. But overall, I think I ran well."

Also putting in strong performances were juniors Ch Arosemena and Mike Hartman and senior Leif Steiner. Arosemena took fifth in the 1,000 meters (2:28.17).

He was followed closely by Steiner, who finished sixth (2:28.76). Hartman finished seventh in the pole vault with a season-best vault of 14-feet 9-inches.

Groves said the non-scoring meet was very competitive because all the teams involved had good athletes in most of the events.

"In an event like this with a lot of good teams, you don't expect to win too many events," he said. "We didn't, but neither did anyone else."