March 22, 2008

Results

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Navy men's track & field team won 14 events en route to topping the field of American, George Mason, Lehigh and Maryland at Ingram Field on Saturday afternoon.

Navy racked up nine IC4A performances to finish the day with 286 points, 222 more than George Mason's second-place total of 64 points. Lehigh came in third with 58 points, followed by American's 57 points and Maryland's 30 points.

The Midshipmen dominated in the field portion of the meet, winning seven of the eight events to accumulate 159 of their 286 points.

Darryl Hunter (Sr./Des Moines, Iowa) won two events with IC4A-qualifying marks. He topped all throwers in the shot put with a distance of 53'8-1/4" (16.36 meters) and in the discus with a 162'7" (49.55 meters) effort. Tyrell Arment (So./Wamblee, S.D.) placed second in the discus throw with an IC4A toss of 160'9" (49.01 meters). Mark Van Orden (So./Morris Plains, N.J.) won the hammer throw with an IC4A mark of 178'0" (54.26 meters), while Bo Lawson (Sr./Newton, N.J.) out-distanced the competition in the javelin throw with a 195'2" (59.50 meters) showing.

Dante Marshall qualified for the IC4A Championship in the triple jump with a first-place distance of 49'4-1/4" (15.04 meters). He also finished second in the long jump with a 22'10" (6.96 meters) effort, an event which teammate Ron Belany (Sr./Haiku, Hawai'i) won with a 22'11-3/4" (7.00 meters) performance. Bill Stillman (So./Norfolk, Mass.) recorded a first-place height of 6'2-1/4" (1.89 meters) in the high jump.

On the track, Navy's strongest performances came in the 800-meter run, where two Mids posted IC4A marks. Paul Harris (Sr./Fairburn, Ga.) paced the competition with a 1:51.83 clocking, soon followed by Craig Meekins's (Sr./Baldwin, N.Y.) third-place time of 1:51.91. Navy's 4x100-meter produced its other IC4A performance of the day, winning the race with a 42.27-second showing.

The Midshipmen won five other events on the track. Will Ricks (Sr./Hopewell, Va.) won the 400-meter dash by 1.46 seconds with a time of 48.89 seconds, followed by Ben Kozy's (Sr./Houston, Texas) first-place 14:51.91 clocking in the 5,000-meter run. Gavin MacGarva (Jr./Bellevue, Wash.) opened the track portion meet with a win in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a 9:35.97 showing and Matthew Hanley (So./Rapid City, S.D.) crossed the finish line in 15.68 seconds to finish first in the 110-meter hurdles. Navy's 4x400-meter relay teamed up to win the event with a time of 3:20.86.

The Midshipmen (6-0) will remain in Annapolis next Saturday, March 29, when they play host to Colgate and Princeton in an 11 a.m. tri-meet.