WORCESTER, Mass. -- Mount Holyoke junior Tessa Lancaster broke her own team record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase for the third time this season, finishing third overall while junior teammate Elizabeth Gerbi took seventh place in the same event at the NEICAAA Outdoor Championships on Saturday at the College of the Holy Cross.

Lancaster (Mansfield, Mass.) and Gerbi (Orono, Maine) combined to score eight team points, putting the Lyons in a tie with UMass Boston for 27th place among the 36 teams that scored points at the meet, which includes teams from Divisions I, II, and III.

Lancaster finished the race in 11:15.99, trailing only two DI runners in Quinnipiac's Rachel St. Germain (10:49.31) and Central Connecticut's Maegan Desmarais (11:00.40). That took 4.67 seconds off of the team record she set at hte NEWMAC Championships on April 27.

It was the fourth time in Lancaster's career, and the third time this season, that she has rewritten Mount Holyoke's steeplechase record. Mount Holyoke's Junior Athlete of the Year has also set the team records in the 3,000 meters and the 10,000 meters this season.

Gerbi recorded a personal best as well, having already jumped into second place on Mount Holyoke's all-time performance list in the event earlier this season. She crossed the finish line in 11:37.34, edging Rylee Davis of UMass-Amherst by 0.07 seconds and taking 0.81 seconds off of her PR.

Senior captain Bridget Hall (Arlington, Mass.) also ran for Mount Holyoke in the 10,000 meters on Friday, finishing in 16th place in 41:24.79.