Men's Indoor Track
Men's Results - 2007 NCAC Indoor Track & Field Championship
Date: March 03, 2007
Location: GRANVILLE
Allegheny College pulled away on the second day of competition at the 2007 North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships to secure their fifth consecutive conference title. This is the Gators’ seventh conference crown in men’s track and field which is the most among all NCAC schools.
On Friday night the Gators jumped out to a 41-point after going 3-for-3 to open the championship. Joe McMahon (Pittsburgh, Pa./Baldwin) improved upon last year's runner-up finish with a victory and NCAA provisional leap in the triple jump. He covered 46’8.25” to top Wooster’s Tristian Jordan (Virginia Beach, Va./Floyd E. Kellam) who jumped
The first championship of day-two went to Denison junior Andrew
Cook (Thetford Center, Vt./Thetford Academy) who successfully defended
his conference championship in the high jump. Cook matched his winning
height of a year ago by clearing 6’3” to take home the individual
title. He bested Ohio Wesleyan’s David Burke (Hudson, Ohio/Hudson) who
successfully cleared 6’2”.
In the pole vault, last year’s second-place finisher, Michael Tornifolio (Stow, Ohio/Stow) of Ohio Wesleyan, won the event by clearing 14’4”. Allegheny’s Peter Sotherland (Kalamazoo, Mich./Central) placed second with a height of 14’0”.
The Gators took first, second and fourth in the shot put and
were paced by junior Frank Tupta (University Heights, Ohio/Hawken) who
won the event with a throw of 51’3.75”. Devin Cruea (Geneva,
Ohio/Geneva) was second in 49’3.5” and Wooster's Rick Drushal
(Lakeville, Ohio/West Holmes) took third in 47.8.5”.
In the first running event of the championship the Gators again controlled three out of the top-four spots and were led by Chris Corkins’ (Horseheads, N.Y./Horseheads) time of 15:10.24. Ben Mourer (Chicora, Pa./Karns City) followed in 15:12.41 and Earlham’s Walker Yane (Oldensburg, Ind./St. Xavier) took the bronze in 15:14.16.
Gator senior Marco Dozzi (Pittsburgh, Pa./Chartiers Valley) took
first in the 3000 meters with a time of 8:50.53. Denison junior Joel
Bendtsen (Chillicothe, Ohio/Chillicothe) came in second in 8:52.61
while Corkins from Allegheny took third place.
Wabash College landed their first individual champion in the men’s long jump after Emmanuel Aouad (Terre Haute, Ind./North) out-dueled Allegheny’s McMahon by jumping 21’11.5”. McMahon placed second with a jump of 21’8” and Kenyon’s Dondrea Brown (Columbus, Ohio/McKinley) placed third overall to earn six points for the Lords.
Aouad returned in the 55 meter hurdles to take home his second
championship medal of the day. He defeated OWU’s Andrew Bloom (Powell,
Ohio/Worthington-Kilbourne) by one one-hundredth of a second, crossing
in 7.93 seconds.
Little Giant junior, Bart Banach (Munster, Ind./Munster) kept the winning ways going for Wabash as he followed Aouad with a victory in the men’s 400 meter dash. Banach’s winning time of 50.49 seconds landed him in front of Denison’s Michael Barnes (Gates Mills, Ohio/Mayfield) who crossed in 50.84.
A conference record fell and an NCAA automatic qualifying time
was achieved in the 800 meter run. Wabash’s Geoff Lambert (Chesterton,
Ind./Chesterton) blew by the competition with a winning time of
1:52.72. This bested the previous conference mark by nearly two
seconds. Second place went to another Little Giant, Nathan Bates
(Ossian, Ind./Norwell), who crossed the finish line in 1:56.55.
Ohio Wesleyan opened Saturday’s running event schedule with a narrow victory in the 4x200 meter relay. The Bishops’ team was comprised of Ryan Ellis (Columbus, Ohio/Dublin Scioto), Nathan Osborn (Edgerton, Ohio/Edgerton), Bloom and Preston Osborn (Edgerton, Ohio/Edgerton). The team combined for a time of 1:31.68, crossing the finish just before second-place Wabash. Third place went to Allegheny and fourth was taken by Oberlin.
Denison sophomore Lex Hultquist (Knoxville, Tenn./Webb School)
passed Kenyon’s Jim Boston (Brookville, Wis./Marquette Univ. School)
with one lap to go in the men's mile and managed to hold off a
hard-charging Boston over the final 50 meters to win the event and set
a new conference record with a time of 4:18.55. Allegheny's Ryan Place
held the previous NCAC mark at 4:20.54.
The distance medley relay team fielded by Allegheny won the event with a time of 10:38.03. That squad was comprised of Matt Smith (Sayville, N.Y./Sayville), Alex Rowland (Pittsburgh, Pa./Fox Chapel), Jamie Drab (North East, Pa./North East) and Ryan Hanson (Presto, Pa./Chartiers Valley).
In the 55 meter dash, Ohio Wesleyan’s Ellis captured the title
with a winning time of 6.64 seconds. Kenyon’s Brown was second in 6.67
seconds and Wittenberg’s Manoach Lamarre (Miami, Fla./Bellen Jesuit)
took third in 6.69. Ellis returned in the 200 meter dash to claim his
third title of the meet with a time of 22.58.
The 4x400 meter relay closed out the championship and Wabash set a new conference best with a time of 3:24.91. Banach led off the relay team and was followed by Bates, Mike Russell (Terre Haute, Ind./North) and Lambert. Ohio Wesleyan and Denison followed in second and third place.
In the post-meet awards ceremony Allegheny Head Coach Bill Ross earned Coach of the year. Gator sophomore Joe McMahon was named the men's Field Athlete of the Year and Wabash’s Jeff Lambert earned the Middle Distance/Distance Runner of the Year plaque. The men's Sprinter/Hurdler of the Year was Ryan Ellis from Ohio Wesleyan.
Complete results from the championship are available at the link above.