BRUNSWICK, Maine - The Bowdoin College track and field teams both took convincing first-place finishes at the Bowdoin Invitational hosted at Farley Field House on Saturday.

The Polar Bear men scored 218.5 points to defeat a five-team field that included Springfield (99), Tufts (98), RPI (88.5) and Colby (52). The Bowdoin women scored 276 points to defeat Colby (128) and RPI (109).

Chantal Croteau won both the 1,000 meters (3:05.86) and the one mile run (5:10.78) for the Polar Bears. Other winning performances on the women's side included Elsa Millett in the 400 meter dash (58.97), Maddie Lamo in the 600 meter run (1:48.15), Maggie Bryan in the 800 meter run (2:25.12) and Olivia MacKenzie in the 3000 meters (10:17.76). In the field events, Erin Silva won the pole vault (3.58 meters), Laura Peterson in the long jump (5.02 meters), Randi London in the shot put (11.86 meters) and Katherine Harmon in the weight throw (14.68 meters). Bowdoin also claimed the 4x200 relay in 1:50.03 (Emily Clark, Cleo Daoud, Samantha Copland, Alee Wade) and the 4x400 meter relay in 4:09.68 (Clark, Wade, Copland, Millett).

Winners for the men's team were David Bean in the 200 meter dash (23.36), Matthew Gamache in the 400 meters (51.76), Brett Stein in the 600 meters (1:23.27), Colin Fong in the 800 meters (1:56.97), Matthew Hillard in the 1000 meters (2:31.28) and Alex Williams in the one mile run (4:22.24). The 4x400 meter relay team placed first in 3:27.80 (Riker Wikoff, Malik McKnight, Samuel Chick, Gamache) while the 4x800 team also won in a time of 7:59.04 (Coby Horowitz, Christian Sleeper, Colin Ogilvie, Hillard).