Boston, MA/Kingston R.I.-- The Merrimack Men's Track and Field team competed at both the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational and the URI Coaches' Invitational this past weekend.
Notes and Numbers:
Cory Couture finished sixth in the Men's 400 meter dash with a time of 47.51 and 15
th in the Men's 200 meter dash with a mark of 21.63 (BU)
Zachary Fisher finished 12
th in the Men's 60 meter Dash with a time of 7.09 (BU)
Carson Mighty finished second in the men's 200 meter dash with a time of 23.04
Finnian Russell finished fifth in the 3000 meter run with a time of 9:10.07 and
Cole Gamache finished ninth with a time of 9:31.71, Nicholas Long finished tenth with a time of 9:36.83.
Neil Letellier finished eighth in the one mile run with a time of 4:30.12. (URI)
Billy Coakley Moved into second on the school record list running a mark of 4:13.96 in the mile.
Drew Gardner finished second in the Men's Pole Vault event with a mark of 4.65m,
Max Bothwell finished fifth in the same event with a mark of 4.20m, and
Tucker Carroll finished seventh with 4.05m. (URI)
Brady Trask finished 4
th in the Men's Triple Jump event with a distance of 11.30m. (URI)
Claudel Chevalier finished fourth in the Men's Weight Throw with a mark of 16.58m. (URI)
Carson Mighty finished seventh in Men's High Jump event with a distance of 1.81m,
Colin Murphy finished with the same mark. ( URI)
Coach
Mark Connolly on the performance/weekend: "This weekend we took some of our top runners to Boston University's David Hemery Valentine Invitational to give those athletes a chance to compete against the very best runners in Division 1. To give a sense of the level of talent at this meet, the Invitational set a record for the most athletes breaking 4:00 in the mile when 52 men broke this one time "impossible barrier". The previous meet with the record had about 30 athletes under 4 minutes. Our Warriors ran against athletes from the Ivy League, Georgetown, Oregon, Texas, LSU, Texas A&M and most of the top Track programs in the NCAA."
UP NEXT:
The Warriors next meet takes place next Sunday and Monday at the
Northeast Conference Indoor Championship.
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