The Massachusetts track teams qualified several runners for the Feb. 29 to March 1 New England Championships over the weekend with their performance at the Boston University Valentine Invitational.

UMass freshman Gina Perno led the Minutewomen team, clawing her way to a second-place finish out of 51 runners in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 2:56.88. She separated herself with the remaining runners in the top five by a second.

Senior Christina DeRosa also had a top 10 finish, continuing her strong season in the 3,000-meter run. She finished ninth with a time of 9:49.36. DeRosa’s time is the third fastest at UMass.

DeRosa and Perno also qualified for the ECAC Championships from March 8 to March 9.

Senior Taryn Trapp finished 18th in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 3 minutes, 2:45.

Redshirt senior Danielle Bolt took eighth place in the 55-meter dash with 7.26 seconds and 20th in the 200-meter dash with 25.54 seconds.

She also competed in the 4×400-meter relay with sophomore Holly Heinricher, sophomore Ros Murphy and redshirt junior Kristen Bakanowski. The relay team finished 20th in 4:00.66.

In the field events, Bakanowski took fifth in the pole vault competition with a height of 11 feet, 9.75 inches.

On the men’s side, sophomore Nicolai Naranjo placed 24th in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 8 minutes, 28.51. Junior Josh Boone placed seventeenth in the mile run in 4 minutes, 12.73.

Boone and Naranjo qualified for the IC4A Championship, which is the same weekend as the women’s ECAC Championship.

Freshman Darius Velez placed sixth in the 55-meter dash preliminaries with 6.5 seconds. Sophomore Tyler Cotto placed 10th in the 55-meter hurdles in 7.7 seconds.

For the field events, Brian Miller placed sixth in the high jump at six feet, six inches.

Next week starts four straight weeks of the indoor postseason with both teams competing in the Atlantic 10 Championships next Saturday before the start of the outdoor season at UMass on March 29.

Adam Miller can be reached at [email protected].