Sophomore Rock Fortna placed 8th in the full mile run (1609 meters) with an indoor PR of 4:40.03. Freshman high flyer Joe Altadonna soared over 5-2 in the high jump, placing 14th overall despite just spending a few practices learning the event between snowstorms and his typical distance training regimen. Fortna returned with freshman Christian Bobowicz, and juniors Andrew Baker and Joe Brill to take 18th in the 4x400 meter relay in a season best time of 3:43.48. Baker had put up a solid 24.92 in the open 200 meters, while Bobowicz teamed up earlier in the day with freshmen Ben Smullen, Teagan Fortna, and John Smith to place 30th amongst all varsity competition in the sprint medley relay. Junior Beckett Wilson also displayed his athleticism with a 35-11 triple jump to keep his skills fresh for spring.
The Bucks also showed their stuff in the season opener on Saturday, December 21st at Lehigh University.
The fearsome foursome of freshmen Teagan Fortna, John Smith, Christian Bobowicz, and Joe Manetta captured fourth place out of 34 teams at the meet in the freshmen-sophomore 4x200 meter run in a blazing 1:45.50 season opener.
Junior Big Dan Nowakowski was just one place shy of advancing to the final in an outstanding debut in the 60 meter tall timbers. His time of 9.55 is a personal best by an astonishing half of a second and was good enough for 7th overall.
The distance medley relay of sophomore Rock Fortna, juniors Joe Brill and Andrew Baker, and sophomore Brian Iatarola were also just narrowly on the outside looking in, 0.02 seconds out of the medals in 6th place with a solid 11:40.24 debut.
The 4x400 meter relay of Ryan McIlhinney, Ryan Walsh, Carter Zerweck, and Joe Brill teamed up to place 9th in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:52.20.
Sophomore Jacob Schiela had a nice outing in the shotput, heaving a 38 foot, 9.75 inch effort for an indoor PR that was good enough for 13th overall.