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Track and Field: Maroon and White place seventh in New England Championship

Sam Grossack, Collegian Staff

Issue date: 5/12/08 Section: Sports
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Media Credit: Keith Toffling/Collegian
This past weekend, the Massachusetts track and field teams traveled to New Hampshire where the athletes who qualified for the New England Championships competed. Both the men and women's teams finished in seventh place. Boston College came in first for the women, and Rhode Island finished on top for the men.

The top performance of the weekend for the Minutewomen came from sophomore Lisa Wilson who finished second in the discus throw with a distance of 45.8 meters. Wilson has had a breakout season and will be a top competitor next season.

Christina DeRosa continued a solid season with a third-place finish in the 5K with a time of 16 minutes, 48.66 seconds.. Finishing in seventh place was Shiyi Zan 20 seconds after DeRosa and good for the fifth fastest time in UMass history while qualifying her for the ECAC Championships next weekend.

Other noteworthy Minutewomen performances were put in by Kristina Landau, Stephanie Aguguo, Brittany Bakanowski and Alisha Tatham. Landau finished fourth in the javelin, Aguguo finished fifth in the triple jump, while Bakanowski finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles and Tatham finished sixth in the 200-meter.

On the men's side, Nicolai Naranjo, Nils Fischer and Jonathan Pierce took first, third and sixth respectively in the 5K. These three athletes combined to score half of UMass's 38 points. Additionally, they each qualified for next week's IC4A Championship in New Jersey.

The men's team also had two relay teams who posted fourth place finishes in their events. Nathan Barksdale, Brian Miller, Samuel Laorenza and Tyler Cotto finished the 4x100 in 42.94 seconds. In the 4x800, Ryan Durkin, Ryan Diorio, James Bentley and Scott VanderMolen finished in 7:45.58.

Freshman Chris Dzidek finished ninth in the decathlon, just missing out on points. However, he was able to put up third-place finishes in the high jump, pole vault and 110-meter hurdles.

Next weekend, both teams will travel to Princeton, N.J. with the athletes who qualified for the IC4A Championships for men and the ECAC Championships for women. Next week will be the last chance for athletes to qualify for the NCAA Championships held the weekend of May 30.

Sam Grossack can be reached at sgrossac@student.umass.edu.
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