Coach P Open and Bucknell
The Ithaca College and Utica College men's track & field teams competed in a non-scoring meet at the Moravian Coach P Invitational on April 10 &11. A group of nine distance runners from Ithaca traveled separately to Bucknell on Saturday to compete in the Bison Outdoor classic.
The Utica men were led by field specialists
Sam Kaczmarek and
Rob Tutein who tallied victories.
Kaczmarek won the shot put on Friday with a season-best toss of 15.08 meters as he qualified for ECAC post-season competition.
On Saturday, Tutein opened up his outdoor campaign with a victory in the high jump as he cleared a personal-best leap of 2.03.
Nicodemus Gambill (Rochester, NY/East High) topped his personal-best in the both the 100 and 200 meter dash events. Gambill qualified for ECAC's in the 200 with a time of 22.16 placing third and also took second in the 100 registering a time of 10.82.
Sam Bonk (Williamsville, NY/Clarence) set a personal-best on Friday in the hammer throw as he opened up the event with a hurl of 45.59 meters, placing fifth. Bonk also finished 11
th in the discus with a swing of 39.84.
Ithaca junior
Andrew Brandt earned a team-best second place finish in the high jump. Brandt tied for second after reaching 1.98 meters to meet ECAC qualifying standards in the high jump.
Ithaca's 4x100-meter relay team secured a third place finish after completing the relay in 42.69 seconds. The relay team consisting of
Rashaad Barrett,
Aaron Matthias,
Tyler Curtis and
Jordan Smith qualified for ECAC's with their time.
Matthias also competed in the 100-meter and 200-meter dash. Matthias clocked a time of 11.13 seconds in the 100-meter to take fifth and placed eighth in 200-meter with a time of 22.55 seconds.
Dane Eckweiler and
Seth Abbott both placed in the top eight runners in the 400-meter hurdles. Eckweiler took fifth in 58.01 seconds and Abbott placed eighth in 59.10 seconds.
Eric Melcer earned a fifth place finish in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, after finishing the race in 10:45.13.
The Bombers placed fifth in the 4x400-meter relay. J. Smith, Barrett,
John Fausold and
Kyle MacKinnon made up the relay team that clocked a time of 3:28.29 in the 1600-meter relay.
Sam Cherney reached 42.37 meters in the discus throw.
David Dorsey,
Daniel Drill and
Matt Foster all reached 3.80 meters in the pole vault.
Larkin Bohanan,
Jesse Capellaro,
Tim Chappell,
Shane Connors,
Brendan Davis,
Steve Derderian,
Stephen Gomez,
Sean Phillips and
Dennis Ryan competed at Bucknell on Saturday. Gomez placed in the top eight in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 14:55.28 to meet ECAC requirements.