Utica, N.Y. – Freshman
Dominic Abbott (Fulton, N.Y./G. Ray Bodley) recorded a pair of top-four individual finishes to lead the Le Moyne College men's indoor track and field team to a fifth-place finish at Utica College's Blue & Orange Invite on Saturday at the Hutton Sports & Recreation Center. Junior
Camryn Cortez (Syracuse, N.Y./Westhill) recorded a victory to lead the women's team to a seventh-place finish.
"Today we tried some people in different events to see what we might be able to do at our conference meet," said head coach
Robin Wheeless. "In the process,
Dominic Abbott ran a very fast 400 and 200. He may end up with another school record before the season is over. Will Bilow hasn't been in a track meet for two years. He started his season with a third-place finish in the high jump.
Nolan Hillhouse tried the triple jump for his first time of the year and finished second. We had several personal bests and with just under four weeks until our conference championship, that's what we need."
Brockport won the men's team competition with 117 points. RPI was just 3.5 points back in second and UMass Amherst finished third with 84.5 points. The Dolphins scored 50 points to place fifth.
UMass Amherst scored 167 points to win the women's team competition. Brockport was second with 112 points and Hamilton placed third with 53 points. The Dolphins scored 45.5 points to place seventh.
Abbott registered a time of 51.72 seconds in the 400-meter dash to place second. The time is the fourth-fastest in the program's history and Abbott is just the second Dolphin to go under 52 seconds. He finished in fourth place in the 200-meter dash in 23.24 seconds, the third-fastest time in the program's history.
Junior
Nolan Hillhouse (Beacon, N.Y./Beacon) registered a distance of 40-feet, 7-inches in his season debut to finish second in the triple jump.
Junior
Christian Carlin-Saracene (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) placed third in the 800-meter run in a career-best 2:01.21.
Senior
William Bilow (Chasm Falls, N.Y./Franklin) finished third in the high jump by clearing the bar at 6-feet, 0-inches in his season debut.
Junior
Nicholas Hafner (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg) recorded a fourth-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles in 9.16 seconds. He placed fifth in the high jump by clearing the bar at 6-feet, 0-inches.
Junior
Matthew Sinnenberg (Burnt Hills, N.Y./Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) registered a fifth-place finish in the 5000-meter run in 16:31.01.
Freshman
Jack Gibson (Ilion, N.Y./Central Valley Academy) placed eighth in the 5000-meter run in 16:48.04.
Freshman
Brandon Scott (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee), Carlin-Saracene, Abbott and senior
Kenny Barrett (Lagrangeville, N.Y. / Lady of Lourdes) teamed to place third in the 4x400-meter relay in 3:33.71.
Cortez won the 5000-meter run in a career-best 20:18.69.
Junior
Cleo Baker (Painted Post, N.Y./Corning-Painted Post) registered a third-place finish in the 800-meter run in a season-best 2:31.99.
Freshman
Hilda Kiprono (Eldoret, Kenya/Kapsabet Girls High School) placed third in the 3000-meter run in a season-best 11:32.35.
Junior
Julianna Szczech (Camillus, N.Y./Marcellus) cleared the bar in the pole vault at 9-feet, 0.25-inches to place third.
Redshirt freshman
Madison Kozyra (Marcy, N.Y./Whitesboro) placed fourth in the shot put with a toss of 37-feet, 10.75-inches. She finished seventh in the weight throw with a distance of 43-feet, 8.5-inches.
Redshirt freshman
Sophia Bisognano (Albany, N.Y./Colonie) recorded a fifth-place finish in the 3000-meter run in 11:51.76.
Senior
Samantha Pellegrini (Loudonville, N.Y./Colonie) finished sixth in the one-mile run in a season-best 5:42.73.
The quartet of junior
Catherine Durant (Arverne, N.Y./Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School), freshman
Natalie Lavello (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Arlington), redshirt junior
Mallory DiFelice (Webster, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) and Baker placed seventh in the 4x400-meter relay in 4:30.92.