Dan Marcy Lands NCAA Auto Mark in Triple Jump; Nate Scott, DMR Break School Records

(3/7/2008) Full Results

At the ECAC Championship on Friday, senior Captain Dan Marcy smashed his personal best in the triple jump with an NCAA Automatic Qualifying distance of 14.69m (48\' 2.5. In addition to winning this very competitive meet, this jump was only 15cm off National Champion Fred Jones' school record of 14.84. Marcy will now look forward to the NCAA Championships in Ada, OH next week, where he is the 4th seed. Additionally, fellow senior Jake Fromer broke the 44-foot barrier, jumping 13.46 to place 16th and PR for the first time in recent history.

Also competing at Harvard at ECACs were seniors Nate Scott and Derek Engelking in the final pentathlons of their respective careers, and they did not disappoint. Scott broke his own school record for the 4th time, ending up with a final mark of 3587 points, while Engelking threw down the 2nd best performance in Tufts history with a mark of 3475. These marks were good enough to take 1st and 2nd in the meet, scoring the Jumbos 18 points.

Also scoring for the Jumbos were seniors Joe Brown, with an 8th place throw in the weight, and Jeremy Arak, with a 3rd place finish in the high jump. These performances totaled 35 points, landing the Jumbos 4th place in ECAC with only 5 scoring athletes.

Across the way at the IC4A championships at BU, the Tufts foursome of Dave Sorensen, Andrew Longley, Billy Hale, and Jesse Faller competed in the DMR against stiff division 1 competition. They were led off by a strong 3:02 1200 by Sorensen, followed by a 48-high split from Longley. Hale then took the race out with a 1:54-high and Faller was able to close in 4:13-high, ending up with an official time of 10:00.05, breaking the previous school record by over a second, and improving their standing on the NCAA list.

Congrats to all Jumbos on a great indoor season, and good luck to those competing at nationals!


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