E8 Wraps Up ECAC Championships 3/8/2014 4:57:00 PM Results The Empire 8 men's indoor track & field teams completed the two-day competition at the ECAC Indoor Championships on Saturday at Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center. Official NCAA qualifiers will be released on Monday. Those athletes who met NCAA standards will move onto the Indoor Championships in Lincoln, Neb. on March 14-15. ALFRED On Saturday, AU senior Nolan Rummel placed 15th in the 1,000-meter run in 2:34.51. The team of Rummel, sophomore Ethan Foster, senior Eddie Potter and Gregory Matos took 16th in the 4X400-meter relay in 3:27.66. ITHACA Junior Dennis Ryan raced to a fourth-place finish in the 1,000-meter run. He clocked a season-best finish of 2:30.85. Also finishing with a season-best performance, classmate Mason Mann placed seventh in the 500 dash in 1:07.07. Ithaca's 4x800 relay team closed out all competition with a fifth-place showing. The team of sophomore Larkin Bohanan, rookie Brendan Davis, Mann and Ryan crossed the finish line in 8:00.98, shaving over six seconds off their previous season-best time. NAZARETH Senior Jake Lafaver earned 10 points for the men's team with a first-place finish in the 800-meter run as he finished in 1:53.69. Lafaver's time of 1:53.69 in the 800-meters was his best indoor time, almost two full seconds faster than his previous best indoor time of 1:55.53 that he recorded just last week at the NYSCTC Championships. Lafaver, who ran in the fourth heat, edged Matt Hinthorne's (UMass-Dartmouth) fifth-heat time by .11 seconds. The meet record is held by former Nazareth stand-out Nick Stenuf, who ran a 1:52.00 in the event in 2008. Sophomore Luis Rivera represented the Golden Flyers in the weight throw. After fouling his first two times, Rivera recorded a mark of 15.15 meters (49 ft., 8 29/64 in.). Rivera recorded his school-record mark of 16.24 meters (53 ft., 3 1/2 in.) last week at the NYSCTC Championships. It was the fourth time Rivera set the school record during the season. ST. JOHN FISHER Devin Cornelius captured first-place in the heptathlon for the second-straight week, becoming the first champion in Fisher history. Cornelius picked up right where he left off yesterday, winning the 1000 meter race in 2:42.78 to clinch the overall title. Earlier in the day, the Deansboro native set a new personal-best in the 60 meter hurdles before shattering the school record and picking up another first place finish in the pole vault after clearing 4.15 meters. Cornelius finished the heptathlon with a career-best 4951 points, which currently ranks him 10th in the nation. Trevor Wilkes also rewrote the Fisher record books after setting a new program-best in the 400 meter dash with a finishing time of 51.18 – good for 23rd place. On the field side, Eric Riley earned a 14th place finish in the long jump after a leap of 6.91 meters. Riley also participated in the high jump, clearing a height of 1.88 meters. STEVENS Junior Robert Pinto became the first-ever men's track & field athlete in school history to claim an individual ECAC title. Pinto tied his own school record in the high jump with a mark of 2.08 meters and ranks ninth in the NCAA. The DMR squad of senior Louis Stengel, junior Andrew Parlette, sophomore Shane Chiaravalle and freshman Michael John placed seventh with a time of 10:26.87. UTICA Frank Volino Jr. posted Utica's two points with a seventh place tally in the 60 meter hurdles as he registered a watch of 8.49.