Golden Flyers break records at Ithaca
CLINTON, NY – The Utica College men and women track and field teams competed at the Hamilton College Invitational Saturday at the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The UC men were guided by junior Corey Zlatniski's record breaking win in the 800 meter run while junior
Sarah Wiatr (Poland, NY/West Canada Valley) led the women's squad with a third place finish in the 400 meter dash.
The Pioneers are back in action next Saturday when they travel to Hanover, NH for the Dartmouth Classic. The meet will take place at Leverone Field House and is set to begin at 12 p.m.
Zlatnisksi broke UC's previous record of 1:58.5 set back in 2011 by Robert Baird as he clocked a watch of 1:56.05 in the victory.
Zlatniski teamed up with freshmen Samuel Adarkwa, Patrick Claffey and Erik Gleba for a team win in the 4x800 relay with a time of 8:33.04.
Utica's 4x200 relay squad consisting of sophomores Chancellor Harris and Nicodemus Gambill along with new comers James Brown and Jonathan Ramirez finished second with a watch of 1:34.21, falling short of the victory by less than one second (1:33.68). Gambill also placed third in the 60 meter dash with a time of 7.14.
Sophomore thrower Sam Kaczmarek tossed the shot put 15.36 meters for a second place tally to pace the men Pioneers.
On the women's side, Wiatr clocked a final time of 1:00.90 in the 400 meter dash while classmate specialist
Katherine Pearce (Weymouth, MA/Weymouth) leaped to a third place tally in the high jump (1.45m).
Sophomore thrower
Bria Hilliard (Bronx, NY/Mother Cabrini) had her own school record (12.89m) broken by classmate
Alexis Edwards (Ilion, NY/Ilion)' toss of 12.94 meters in the women's weight throw, but regained her record status later in the event with a hurl of 13.29 to remain the current UC leader in the 20lb. weight throw event.
ITHACA, N.Y. – Nazareth's track and field teams broke several school records Saturday in Ithaca. Both Golden Flyers' 4x400-meter relay teams set new records. Senior
Michaela Gildemeyer set a new record in the 1000-meter run, and junior Tom Sippie broke his own record in the 200-meter dash.
The women's 4x400-meter relay team broke Nazareth's 2013 school record by over three seconds, finishing with a time of 4:05.53. Freshman
Samantha Goble had the first leg, followed by classmate
Andrea Larnard, senior
Michaela Gildemeyer, and senior
Hannah Brackley. Gildemeyer placed first in the 1000-meter run with a time of 3:06.75. She broke Lauren Jamieson's school record of 3:07.08.
Goble won the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:02.41. Brackley still holds the facility record in the event with a time of :59.53 that she set last year. Larnard was less than a second behind Goble, finishing fourth with a time of 1:03.24.
Nazareth had a pair of runners finish in the top-10 in the 5,000-meter run. Sophomore
Jamie DiSalvo was ninth with a time of 19:45.7, and junior
Blair Meeson was 10th as she crossed the line with a time of 19:55.84. In the 4x200 relay, the Golden Flyers finished sixth with a time of 1:51.27. Sophomore
Alex Walker teamed with senior
Sibongile Chisi, junior
Amanda Entress, and Brackley in the event.
The Golden Flyers also had several top performances in field events. Junior
Taylor Pierson was fourth in the long jump with a mark of 5.25 meters (17ft., 2 3/4 in). In the pole vault, Chisi tied her own school record with a mark of 3.05 meters (10 ft.). Chisi was fifth in the event. Entress added a 10th-place finish in the triple jump with mark of 10.15 meters (33 ft., 3 3/4 in.).
The men's 4x400 relay team broke the 2008 record of 3:25.55 with a time of 3:24.95. Freshman Nick LaBarbera started the relay and was followed by sophomore Matt Battaglia, sophomore Jacob Murray, and junior Tom Sippie. Sippie new record in the 200-meter dash is :22.33, a tenth of a second faster than the school record he set last week. It was only .05 off the facility record time.
In addition to running on the 4x400 relay, Battaglia placed second in the 500-meter dash with a time of 1:07.51. He was followed by Murray, who placed ninth with a time of 1:09.68. Freshman Kevin Witt added a 10th-place finish in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 16:04.44.
In field events, juniors Luis Rivera and Brandon Vuolo each performed well in the 35-pound weight throw. Rivera was third with a mark of 17.49 meters (57 ft., 4 3/4in.), and Vuolo was eighth with a mark of 14.09 meters (46 ft., 2 3/4 in). Vuolo was just .01 meters away from his school record in the shot put. He finished seventh with a mark of 13.66 meters (44 ft., 9 3/4 in.)In the triple jump, junior Khiary Gayle placed sixth with a mark of 13.34 meters (43ft., 9 1/4in.).
Nazareth is in action again next weekend with the Brockport Mid-Season Classic and Ramampo Indoor Select meets scheduled.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The Stevens Institute of Technology men's and women's indoor track teams broke several school records Saturday in a strong showing at the Springfield Invitational.
As a team, the men finished in fourth place with 106 points while the women placed sixth with 60 points.
Junior
Gladys Njoku broke her own school record in the 60m with a time of 8.22, good for second place overall. Sophomore
Victoria Taibe made the finals in both the shot-put and the weight throw, finishing in the top five in both.
On the men's side, sophomore
Brian Fratto took first in the 60m with a school record 7.15 while sophomore
Daniel Jacome broke his own school record in the shot-put with a second place mark of 13.75m. Sophomore
Nicholas Zickgraf rounded-out the men's highlights with a first place finish 2:34.1 in the 1000m, a new personal best.
Both teams will be back in action next weekend with the Ramapo College Select at the N.Y.C. Armory.
Ithaca competes again at home in Glazer Arena on Feb. 7. The Ithaca Quad is set to begin at 11:30 a.m.
HOUGHTON, N.Y. -- Day two of the Houghton Multi-Event Open Indoor Track and Field meet produced several strong performances by Highlanders athletes.
Athletes from Mansfield University, Alfred University, Alfred State and Messiah College joined the Houghton team in the event at the Kerr-Pegula Field House.
"It was fun that the all the teams at this meet were completely different than last week," said Highlander Head Coach Patrick Hager. "We added some non-traditional events, like the 300m, 600m, and 4x1600m relay to add some variation for our athletes. It proved well worth it as we saw some incredible performances."
Savannah Doviak ran to a school record in the 300m with a time of 44.43 (almost a full second faster than the record).
Houghton set the first facility records in the women's 600m and 4x200m relay.Nikki Garns won the 600m in 1:41.98, shortly after being a part of the winning 4x200m team of Doviak, Garns, Kate Taggart and Fiona Daloia (1:50.72). "Their handoffs were 100 percent better than when we ran a 1:57 with the same team a couple weeks ago," said Hager.
The men saw their first win in the new facility with Jordan Cady winning the long jump in 5.90 meters. Jon Lewis had an exceptional performance in the 600m, with a 5th place finish in 1:29.00.
The team is back in action at the Brockport Invite on Saturday, Feb. 7.
ITHACA, N.Y. - Records continued to fall for the St. John Fisher College men's track and field team at the Ithaca College Bomber Invitational on Saturday.
Freshman
James Felice set a new school record in the indoor mile with a time of 4:31.31, good for sixth place overall.
Joe D'Agostino took third place in the 200-meter dash with a school record-breaking time of 23.10 seconds.
Evan Magnussen broke his own Fisher record in the 3,000-meter run, finishing in 9:02.29 for eighth place.
Eric Riley won the long jump with a distance of 6.78 meters.
Other key performances included
Mark VanMarter and
Brandon Fuentes in the triple jump. VanMarter took third with an ECAC-qualifying mark of 13.54 meters, just .02 meters shy of the school record. Fuentes placed fifth with a NYSCTC A standard mark 13.43 meters and he holds the current Fisher record. VanMarter also placed eighth in the high jump at 1.83 meters.
Trevor Wilkes took third in the 400 with a time of 52.74 seconds, while freshman
Peter Girardi finished fourth in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.68 seconds.
In the heptathlon,
Devin Cornelius stands in second place after three events. Tomorrow he will complete the event with the 60-meter hurdles, pole vault and 1,000-meter run.
Select Fisher student-athletes will participate in the heptathlon and pentathlon on Sunday at Ithaca. Fisher's full squad will return to action on Saturday at the College at Brockport's Mid-Season Classic Invite.
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