BOSTON, MA (3/07/04) - The SJU men's indoor track and field team broke four school records in three different events en route to a school-best eighth place finish in a field of over 80 schools at the IC4A Championships run at Reggie Lewis Track. Leading the record setting day for SJU was sophomore Andre Laboy. Laboy placed 2nd in the 3000m in 8:09.07, smashing the old school record by 4.5 seconds. SJU also qualified three runners to the 10 man final in the 500m. Sophomore Andrew Thomas won the seeded section, and placed second overall just 0.3 seconds out of first. His time of 1:01.98 broke the school record set by Andy Craycraft at the IC4A's in 2002. Doug Rick placed 4th in the same event by running 1:02.05 (also bettering the former record). Chris Koneski also qualified for the final with a personal best 1:03.50. The 4 x 800m relay of Rich Anderson, Brad Schmidt, Jerry Puryear, and Mike DiDio made the final, qualifying on Saturday in 7:33.78. Puryear, however, was injured on the 3rd exchange, and was replaced in the final on Sunday by freshman Chris Kessler. The team placed 6th in that final with a time of 7:36.05. The 4 x 400m relay team of Nick Carras, Andrew Thomas, Chris Koneski, and Doug Rickpicked up with their exploits of last year. In the trials on Saturday, they won their heat in a school record time of 3:12.37, breaking last year's record of 3:12.91. That record was short-lived, however, as they came back on Sunday to place 4th overall in another record time of 3:11.60. Those who competed but did not make the final included Nick Carras in the 200m (22.27), Mike DiDio in the mile (4:13.07), and the Distance Medley Relay team of Joe Mohn, Kile Garguilo, Chris Kessler, and Teddy Meyers (10:04.23).