The team didn’t come into the meet with high expectations.

“We knew it was going to be tough,” captain Alasdair McLean-Foreman said. “We’ve been struggling and we have several players injured.”

The Crimson wasn’t able to field any sprinters, so that hurt its overall score. A few players stood out, however.

Laine won the triple jump with a 16.03-meter leap. He was Harvard’s sole event winner over the weekend.

Another bright spot on Harvard’s lineup was captain Kristoffer Hinson. His 16.4-meter effort in the shot-put competition put him in second place, beating the third-place competitor, Dartmouth’s Robert Kerris by a hundredth of a meter. Junior Christopher Ware placed sixth in the same competition with a 15.34-meter shot.

The men’s six points in the first day’s competition were all earned by senior Travis Hughes in the men’s long jump event. His 7.39-meter jump earned him third place in the event and secured him a spot at the NCAA regional meet. Freshman Brodie Lewis also competed in the long jump, soaring 6.66 meters to secure 17th place in the event.

Junior Kevin Duffy came close to scoring in the javelin throw with a 57.85-meter shot

that was just 1.02 meters short of scoring, but far enough to give him seventh place.

In the hammer throw, Harvard had four competitors place in the top 20. Ware and junior James Rhodes placed 10th and 11th, respectively, with throws of 48.44 meters and 44.37 meters.

—Staff writer Elyse N. Hanson can be reached at ehanson@fas.harvard.edu.