Here is what I wrote for the Web site. More details on the meet and splits in the coming days ...
NEW YORK – The Marist College men’s track distance medley relay team set a school record and qualified for the IC4A Championships with their fifth-place finish at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational, held Friday night at the Armory Track and Field Center.
The team of freshman Will Griffin (Columbia, CT), junior Colin Frederickson (Colonie, NY), freshman Tom Lipari (Greenvale, NY) and freshman Adam Vess (Cromwell, CT) finished in 10:04.20, narrowly eclipsing the three-year-old school mark of 10:04.42. The time easily exceeded the IC4A standard (10:19.70) by more than 15 seconds.
However, the relay did not start out well for the Running Red Foxes, as the baton was knocked out of Griffin’s hand by another competitor moments after the starting gun. Griffin retrieved the baton and ran his 1,200-meter split in a slower-than-expected 3:09.1. Frederickson made up some of the difference as he blasted through the 400-meter split in 50.8 seconds. Lipari ran a personal-best split of 1:56.6, putting the Red Foxes back in the race. Vess made up much of the lost ground on the field with his anchor 1,600-meter split of 4:07.5.
Earlier in the day, junior captain Girma Segni (Bronx, NY) qualified for the IC4A Championships in the 3,000-meter run with a personal-best time of 8:23.25. Two weeks ago, Segni qualified for the IC4As in the 5,000-meter run. Also in the 3,000, senior Joe McElhoney (Beacon, NY) ran to a personal-best time of 8:46.33, despite being slowed by a knee injury.
The entire track team returns to action Saturday at the Valentine Invitational at Boston University.
4 comments:
Drop Baton--that has to be a s first. Good job though for making up for it!
Bryan Quinn should have been there to tell you to fall on that baton. Congrats on the new record and the IC4A qualifier Girma.
are any records going to last?
4 different types of distance runners, with 4 different warm-up lengths and variations and 3 of them run the same exact split. Was def. a special relay. If I could only run 1:55.8(or 3?).
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