IC4A/ECAC and Alex Wilson meets

[Nevada Hoya]

The IC4A and ECAC meets start tomorrow. The women might do well, but the men have some of their best runners at the Alex Wilson meet at Notre Dame. Tonight the DMR team tried to get an automatic qualifier for the NCAAs. They came up 3.5 s short, but still got a provisional mark. Wisconsin is the only team in the race that ran an automatio qualifier with their 9:32.76. The Hoyas with Debole, Manning, Bonner, and Koborsi finished 8th in 9:36.57. Nova, BYU, Notre Dame, Kansas, Alabama, and Washington were ahead of the Hoyas, who finished 8th out of 20 teams.

[reformation]

Not having Lukezic is killing the men in the relays--they would have probably gotten the auto with him

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Does this eliminate the men from the NCAA DMR, I guess it does if they only take 8-9 teams?

[Nevada Hoya]

If the NCAA only takes 8-9 teams, I guess they won't go, but I think they will take more, so we still have a chance. Having Lukezic, instead of Koborsi on the mile is worth at least four seconds, although I don't have the splits, so Rod might have run better than I thought. In one of the track boards they bemoaned the fact that the Hoyas did not have Lukezic and Jaworski and what would they have run with both of them.

Early results from the IC4A meet:

55m
18. Kenny Mitchell 6:48 (did not qualify)

55mH
10. Terrell Gissendanner 7.66 q

Mile
9. Brandon Bonsey 4:10.78 q
13. Chris Esselborn 4:12.26
22. Shane Young 4:19.46

I am surprised that Chris didn't qualify in the mile, but also surprised that Brandon did. He has made some great strides (sorry for the pun) this year.

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Bumby probably also could have made a few second difference, though I applaud the track coaching staff for redshirting him so that he could make the US cross team
vs running him so that we could squeak into the NCAA dmr.

[Nevada Hoya]

One more result from the IC4As.

800m
21. Stanley Lagrenade 1:57.25

I am not sure what happened to Stanley. He should be low 1:50's right now.

[Nevada Hoya]

Even though we have our best men at Notre Dame, we are third in the IC4A meet on the first day with 11 points behind only Rutgers with 14 points and Army.

We scored all of our points in the 3000m with very good runs by Brian Dalpiaz and Charlie Millioen, who were third and fourth. Brian turned in a time of 8:10.98, while Charlie was right behind in 8:11.24. The first two were John McDougal of Liberty at 7:53.16, earning an automatic entry into the NCAAs next week and Martin Fagin, BE XC winner. Justin Scheid was 11th in the 3000m with a time of 8:21.82. So our distance crew still is running well.

[Nevada Hoya]

Oops down to 4th with Manhattan scoring big points in the weight throw (their favorite event).

[Nevada Hoya]

Three more provisional NCAA marks from 3/4 of our DMR team at Notre Dame today. With only Matt Debole (he has a solid 3000m provisional mark) not running, Tommy Manning, Chris Bonner, and Rod Koborsi ran in events a little out of their comfort zone. Tommy and Chris moving up to the mile and 800m, respectively, while Rod came down a bit to run the 3000m. Tommy finished 5th in the mile with the provisional mark of 4:03.53 (0.36s out of 2nd). Chris won the 800 with a mark of 1:49.29 (there was another special 800m, and Chris would have finished 3rd or 4th there, his time beating Courtney Jaworski). Rod finished behind two Kenyans and finished just in front of another with a provisional time of 7:59.34 (Matt has a 7:56 to his credit). We will see how these marks hold up. Tommy will probably run the 800m at the NCAAs as he has a provisional mark there, barely off the automatic mark. Matt should make the 3000m. Chris, I don't believe, has a qualifier in the 400m, so if this mark holds up, he will also run the 800m. Dan Nunn and Fleet Hower have provisional marks in the 5000m. The meet is next week, so we should know soon who is going.

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Looks like excellent individual running after a disappointing dmr. I was especially impressed by Chis Bonner's big pr at 800. Maybe he should/will shift his focus to the 800 for the outdoor season. Would give Gu a lot more flexibility if he is an 800 threat in addition to the 400.

[Nevada Hoya]

Yes, Chris shows lots of promise in the 800m. I think it was last year that he was on the 4x800 relay at Penn and fell. Without the fall, the Hoyas would have finished pretty high.

Another event contested today at the IC4As was the 4x800 prelims. Running their third team, the Hoyas posted a 7:35.95 for an 8th place finish and qualifying for the finals. The runners on the team were Shane Young, Chris Esselborn, Ricky Barrios, and Stanley Lagrenade. Oh, BTW, MIT is tied for 5th, one point behind us (they have a Japanese weight thrower who won the event)!

[Nevada Hoya]

The women had a good day. They are one point better than the guys with 12 points, but one place lower:

1) Northeastern University 22 2) Yale University 19
3) Duke University 15 4) Boston University 13
5) Rutgers University 12 5) Georgetown University 12
7) Fordham University 10 7) Providence College 10
9) Maryland College Park, U o 9 10) Cornell 8

The only scoring today for us was in the pentathlon, where Buky Bamigboye finished 5th with 3613 points, and in the 5000m, where Natasha LaBeaud smashed her new record from the BE meet by 20 seconds with a 16:28.93 and she not only finished 2nd, but got a provisional mark for the NCAAs. Great run, Natasha!

The other events for us were prelims with the following results:

400m
7. Ashley Hubbard 55.84q

500m
3. Kandance Ferguson 1:14.09q
10. Alex Baptiste 1:16.04
11. Jayne Penn 1:16.22

Mile
5. Avril Ogrodnick 4:55.04q
6. Erin Henry 4:57.31q

800m
4. Nana Hanson-Hall 2:09.94q
5. Christine Whalen 2:10.71q

4x400m
4. Georgetown 3:47.18q
(Baptiste, Torpey, Penn, Ferguson)

4x800m
2. Georgetown 9:01.5q
(Malcolm, L. Ogrodnick, O'Neil, Infeld)

[Nevada Hoya]

It looks like the split men's team at the IC4As are going to finish 5th. If they had the guys from the Notre Dame meet they could have won this meet. So great performance for the guys that ran. It turned out that our strength again was the distances. We got 11 points in the 3000m, but today we got 21 points in the 5000m. Fleet Hower just held off Dan Nunn to win the 5000m in 14:12.68; Dan recorded a 14:12.86. Steve Meinelt finished 6th in 14:20.10. Brandon Bonsey got a 7th place finish in the mile in 4:11.06 and picked up two points. Terrell Gissendanner finished 8th in the semis in the 55mH in 7.62 and finished 8th in the finals in 7.63 to pick up one point. The 4x800m team of Bonsey, Esselborn, Lagrenade, and Thompson finished 4th in 7:30.75. The DMR finished 3rd (0.25 s out of 1st) in 9:54.12 with Dalpiaz, Jenkins, Billington, and Millioen running.

Other events that we didn't get scores were the TJ with Terrell Gissendanner in 13th in 46'4.25", the SP with Khyle Osborne at 49'4.25" in 23rd place, the 200m as Kenny Mitchell ran 21.86 for 10th, and Rasheed Thompson in 9th place in 2:28.2.

We finished better than in the BE.

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Congrats to the women on their win at the ECAC. They scored well across most individual events and the relays, though their individual results were probably better at the Big East Meet. Freshman Natasha LaBeaud also looks to be emerging as a potental distance star posting 3k/5k big pr's + NCAA prov at 5k.

[Nevada Hoya]

The women scored 65 points; the next place team, Northeastern had 49. Helping immensely were the relays with a first and two seconds. The 4x800 won in 8:57.72 with Hanson-Hall, O'Neil, Whalen, and Infeld); the 4x400 was second in 3:43.75 with Ferguson, Torpey, Baptiste, and Hubbard; the DMR was second in 11:16.51 with the combo of Maloy, Hubbard, O'Neil, nad Infeld. Individual scores were the following:

400m
8. Ashley Hubbard 56.52

500m
2. Kandance Ferguson 1:12.31

Mile
5. Erin Henry 4:52.76
7. Avril Ogrodnick 4:55.02

800m
3. Nana Hanson-Hall 2:09.31
8. Christine Whalen 2:14.34

TJ
4. Ashley Mondie 38'11.5"

Also, running, but not picking up points today:

3000m
9. Natasha LaBeaud 9:41.33
19. Lise Ogrodnick 9:52.26
26. Avril Ogrodnick 10:08.02