Day One of Track & Field Championships in the Books
Day
One Results
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The first day of the 2012 Landmark Conference
Championships, hosted by Moravian, is in the books and the
Crusaders are in solid shape as they prepare for the final day of
competition on Sunday.
The men stand in second with 60 points, behind only Moravian (77),
while the women are third with 46 points, trailing just Moravian
(79) and Catholic (54).
For the men, Paul Crowe (Boalsburg, Pa./State College
Area) earned SU four points by taking home fifth in the
10,000 meter run, crossing the finish in 32:46.87. Crowe’s
time was more than two minutes faster than his previous PR.
Brandon Mash (Collegeville, Pa./Methacton),
meanwhile, picked up two points by finishing seventh (34:06.51),
also setting a PR in the event.
All four of SU’s 400 meter runners qualified for the
Sunday’s finals in Chance King (Newburgh,
N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy) (51.79), Ryan Lopes
(Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg Area) (51.21), Brendon
Albaugh (Ewing, N.J./The Peddie School) (51.23) and
Matt Erford (Shrewsbury, Pa./Loyola Blakefield)
(51.77). Albaugh and Erford’s times marked PRs.
Joe Zamadics (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East)
was second in the 1500 meter run with a time of 3:59.51 and was
followed less than a second behind by Ian Quinlan (Eagle
View, Pa./Methacton/Lehigh) (4:00.64). Dan Martin
(Landisburg, Pa./West Perry) also earned points by placing
sixth (4:03.30). Quinlan set a near three-second PR in the process
while’s Martin’s time was a personal-best by six
seconds.
In the 200 meter dash, Michael Terwilliger (Honesdale,
Pa./Honesdale) and Weston Pesillo (Lewisburg,
Pa./Lewisburg Area) earned spots in Sunday’s final
with respective times of 23.19 and 23.48.
As for field events, Terwilliger took home fifth overall in the
pole vault (3.65m) and Seth Landgraf (Millersburg,
Pa./Millersburg Area) was third in the discus (39.87),
followed just behind by Ken Schetroma (Elysburg,
Pa./Southern Columbia), who took fourth with a throw of
38.81m, a PR.
Schetroma went on to easily win the shot put with his mark of 14.73
while teammate Dan Smith (South Plainfield, N.J./South
Plainfield) was second (12.78m).
In the final field even of the day, freshman Brian Etz
(Cortland, N.Y./Cortland) was sixth (6.39m) in the long
jump, surpassing his previous PR of 6.29m.
Like the men, the women put themselves in prime position to make a
move on Sunday.
Julie Scales (Berkeley Heights, N.J./Governor
Livingston) opened the field events by tying for fourth in
the pole vault (2.74m). Kristin Stam (Wellsboro,
Pa./Wellsboro Area), meanwhile, was fifth overall in the
long jump (4.99m) and Cameron Weaver
(Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove Area) was the squad’s
top finisher in the shot put with a heave of 10.89m, easily setting
a PR in the process.
Jess Ranck (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg Area) earned
second in the discus (34.63m) and Claudia Bartoli
(Brookfield, Conn./Brookfield) came in fourth in the event
with a personal-best mark of 31.53m.
On the track, Jenelle Toter (Fishers Ferry, Pa./Line
Mountain) qualified for the 100 meter dash finals with a
career-best time of 13.40 in the prelims. In the 400 meter dash,
Laura Alleva (Malvern, Pa./Great Valley)
(1:00.96), Kelsey Hermick (Hallstead, Pa./Elk
Lake) (1:02.78) and Brooke Linders (Doylestown,
Pa./Central Bucks West) (59.53) all earned spots in
Sunday’s final. Hermick and Linders’s times all marked
career-bests.
Shannon Galvin (Jamison, Pa./Central Bucks South)
ran the 1500 in 4:53.78, earning her a fourth-place finish with an
11-second PR, while Maggie Storch (Troy, Pa./Troy
Area) came in seventh in the race with her time of
4:57.28, also a PR.
Melanie Demakis (South Hadley, Mass./South Hadley)
(18.17) and Stam (16.51) earned a trip to the Sunday’s final
in the 100 meter hurdles, both personal-best times.
The championship meets concludes tomorrow afternoon.
