Fast Eddie

St. Benedict's Edward Cheserek took aim at the oldest record in the book — Gerry Lindgren's famed 8:40.0 two-mile — today at the Molloy Stanner Games at The Armory.

Hammering through the final mile by himself in 4:16, Cheserek missed by three seconds, finishing in 8:43.16. Lindgren — who ran for Rogers High in Spokane, Wash. — has held the national indoor mark for nearly 48 years.

The Molloy Stanner Games — among the longest-running features at The Armory — were established in the early days of the rebirth of the facility in the early 1990s. It draws top talent from around the East Coast.

Today's invitational mile winners — Notre Dame's Maria Seykora and Chaminade's Thomas Awad — earned automatic berths to the Millrose Games' mile field.

Seykora, who was timed in 5:01.09, finished nearly eight seconds ahead of Newburgh Free Academy's Gianna Frontera and Commack's Erin Neville. Awad won a tight one, finishing in 4:15.67, just ahead Shaker's Christian Delago (4:16.00) and Stuyvesant's Konrad Surkont (4:16.31).

Sachem East's Rachel Paul — who has already qualified for the Millrose Mile — was an easy winner in the girls' 3,000m run. Her time of 9:49.64 was 24 seconds ahead of the field.