Saturday, March 3, 2012

IC4A/ECAC results

Our program competed in two events at the IC4A meet at BU and one event at the ECAC meet at Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, wrapping up our indoor season. Here are how the events went for us:

Men’s DMR: This was a thrilling race with a bittersweet ending for our team. We missed the school record by less than 1 second with a time of 10:04.86 (school record is 10:04.20). When you come that close, it is excruciating. But, just to have come that close was a huge accomplishment for this group.

David Marthy, the freshman mid-distance sensation fresh off his school record in the 800 last week at the Armory, moved up to the 1,200-meter leg. This was a roll-of-the-dice, risky proposition as David had not raced above 800 meters this season, except for the mile at the season-opening meet at Yale in December (and, let’s face it, that really doesn’t count). We were hoping for, at best, 3:05. David cranked a stellar 3:03.62, handing off in the race to …

Dan Conklin in the 400-meter leg. Conklin wasn’t supposed to be here. Chris Vanzetta was our 400 leg for the DMR, but Chris got very sick with the flu toward the end of the week. Conklin stepped in as a late replacement, canceling plans to visit a friend down in the Philly area for the weekend. I had faith he could fill in admirably. We were hoping, realistically, for a 51-mid. Dan did us much better, splitting 50.6, and handing off to …

Matt Panebianco in the 800-meter leg. This is Matty P’s sweet spot, and he did the job, running 1:55.1. Realistically, we were hoping for 1:55.xx. And the “x” was as low as you can go, so we were set up, handing off to …

Tommy Lipari on the anchor. Tommy went out hard. This happens all the time in the relay. He battled with the St. Joseph’s anchor leg, exchanging places with him and working very hard. He came up just a little short on the final two laps, but it was not for a lack of trying. He felt terrible that we just missed the school record.

Truth be told, it was disappointing and a missed opportunity. But such is life. It is a rare moment when every leg of a relay nails it. Tommy anchored in 4:15, about the level he has been racing at all winter; it was not a bad leg at all, it just wasn’t enough on this day. He gave it his all. We are disappointed with the result, but proud of the effort, and proud that Tommy stuck his nose in there and raced his heart out.

So yeah. The DMR was the event of the weekend for us.

Men’s 3km: Quimes DelaCruz had a bad race. That’s all there is to say. He went out hard, battled through multiple surges and just ran out of gas, for a variety of reasons. In his eight seasons of racing to date at Marist, Quimes has had almost no “bad” races. This was one of them. It happens, and we move on.

Women’s 4x800: I was not over at the Reggie Lewis Center, but Coach Chuck reported that this was a deflating effort and much less than we had hoped for. Again, it happens. We are proud of our ladies for qualifying and setting the school record. On Saturday, the relay did not go as planned. See splits below for this relay.

And so ends our first indoor track season without an indoor track on campus. It was a long and memorable season with many highlights. The biggest highlight to me, by far, is the continued level of effort in practice and at meets, despite our obvious logistical hardships on a daily basis. It makes me proud to be the coach of this program.

On to outdoors …

IC4A Championships
Boston University
Saturday, March 3, 2012

Distance medley relay
13. Marist 10:04.86

1,200: David Marthy: 29, 59 (30), 1:31 (32), 2:02 (31), 2:33 (31), 3:03.62 (30.62)
400: Dan Conklin 50.6
800: Matt Panebianco 26, 55 (29), 1:24 (29), 1:55.1 (31.1)
1600: Tom Lipari 28, 59 (31), 1:31 (32), 2:04 (33), 2:37 (33), 3:09 (32), 3:42 (33), 4:15 (33)

3,000-meter run
30. Arquimedes DelaCruz 8:45.54

31.9, 66.5 (34.6), 1:39.2 (32.8), 2:12.1 (32.9), 2:45.6 (33.5)
3:20.1 (34.5), 3:54.4 (34.3), 4:28.2 (33.8), 5:01.6 (33.4), 5:35.5 (33.9)
6:11.2 (35.7), 6:49.7 (38.5), 7:29.4 (39.7), 8:05.9 (36.5), 8:45.54 (39.64)
Kilometer splits: 2:45.6, 2:49.9, 3:10.04

ECAC Championships
Reggie Lewis Center
Saturday, March 3, 2012

3,200-meter relay

Marist 9:23.57
Briana Crowe 2:17.5, Christine Coughlin 2:20.2, Colleen Meenan 2:24.3, Jackie Gamboli 2:19.2

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