Double Header Weekend Proves Superb for Jumbos

(2/11/2006) See more Photos     Full Results

The Team was split up this weekend with a number of competitors at both BU and MIT. Both sections put up huge performances at both meets.

The air crackled with excitement at MIT as the entire 3k field PRed. The crew was led by Skye Isard at 9:22, followed quickly by Sam Krumholz at 10:01 and Steve Leibowitz at 10:02. Jamil Ludd and Dave McCleary went one, two in the hurdles and Skip Pagel PRed with a 8.76. The 4x400 was comprised of 4 strong legs with James Bradley, Sam Dozor, Skip Pagel, and David McCleary.

The field events saw some serious performances as Ted McMahan got back to early season form with a 6-2 high jump. The pole vault was truly the event of the meet as Rob Lorie and Tim Bassell both PRed big and qualified for Div III's with 13-0 each. Tim has seen a 2 foot improvement over the last 2 weeks. In the Long Jump, Phil Rotella broke 20-0 with only a week of Long Jump practice. With everyone at the meet looking on, Dan Marcy busted out a big triple jump with 44?10.75? He was followed in step with a season's best of 42?00? from Kenny Kang. McMahan just missed qualifying for Div III New England's by less than a inch with a leap of 41'5.25" while Jake Fromer fouled two big triples.
Jason Galvin had the 2nd best throw of his life marking 15.07 meters in the weight and Tyler Groff got over the 40-0 mark with his bomb in the weight.

BU saw a 78% PR rate with 18 of 23 athletes posting new personal bests.

Freshman Will Forde ran PR's of 6.72 and 22.94 followed quickly by 3 other 200m PRs. Micky Ferri's 23.16, LeQuan Hunter's 23.41, and Kevin Fitgerald's 23.44 all hit the Div III mark. Trevor Williams and Dustin Virgilio also PRed with times of 50.42 and 51.75 seconds in the 400m. Nate Scott qualified in the 600m with his 1:06.93 (500m) and Marcelo Norsworthy PRed with his 1:07.51. Matt Fortin led the milers with an NCAA provisional mark of 4:11.86 follow by Matt Lacey with his own provo mark of 4:15.14. Christopher Kantos and Josh Kennedy added their own PRs of 4:27.53 and 4:26.22. The 800 saw some seriously strong performances as Dan Sullivan, and Nate Cleveland PRed in the same race with a 1:56.82 (2 second PR) and 1:57.64 (1.5 second indoor PR) respectively. Pat Mahoney ran a strong race as well just missing the provo mark with his 1:54.81. Matt Alander squeaked under his mark from last week with a 2:37.55 in the 1000m. Dave Sorensen and Chad Uy kept up the tone set across the Charles as they completed the PR streak in the 3k with an 8:48.74 and 9:00.34 respectively. Finally, the squad set two season's best times in the 4x400 relay as the B team of Virgilio, Marcelo, Colin, and Will ran a 3:25. The A team had a solid performance of 3:20.56 as Trevor, Nate, Nate, and Pat split 49,50,50,49.

The Multis had a big day as Jeremy Arak finished his Pentathlon qualification for next week by Jumping 6'2" in the high jump and running an 8.69 in the 55m hurdles at BU, then going over to MIT and running a 3:35 in the 1000 and throwing 6.96m in the shot-put.



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