Freshman Corey Thomas was presented with the NE-10 Freshman of the Year Award following the NE-10 Championships this weekend, by Assistant Commissioner Amy Wibel. |
Stonehill Places Third at NE-10 Championships
Thomas named NE-10 Freshman
of the Year following two All-Conference performances
Polito defends 10,000-meter title; Newton wins
discus championship
Fullerton posts NCAA provisional qualifying time in
1500-meters
EASTON, Mass. (May 2, 2010) – The Stonehill College men’s outdoor track and field team placed third at the 2010 Northeast-10 Conference Championships at W.B. Mason Stadium on the Stonehill campus this weekend. The Skyhawks compiled 114 team points, while Southern Connecticut State University ran its streak of NE-10 Outdoor Championships to eight with 198 points and American International College took second with 171 points.
Freshman indoor All-American Corey Thomas (Brookline, Mass./BC High) was voted as the Northeast-10’s Freshman of the Year by the Conference’s head coaches following another record-setting afternoon. He blazed to the 110-meter hurdles title with his provisional NCAA Championship qualifying and school-record breaking time of 14.32-seconds – nearly three quarters of a second faster than the field in the final. He broke his own school and facility record of 14.39-seconds set last weekend at the Skyhawk Invitational and also broke the NE-10 Championship record of 14.40-seconds set by UMass Lowell’s Hassan Wajd at the 2002 championships. Thomas qualified for the final with a time of 14.54-seconds in the preliminary round.
Thomas also earned All-Conference honors for the high jump with his school-record matching height of 6’9.75” to place second overall. He was among four athletes to clear the provisional NCAA Championship qualifying height of 6-9.75, along with senior teammate Joseph D’Agostino (Canton, Mass./Canton), but placed second by needing two jumps to clear, while event champion Dylan Moore, a freshman from American International, cleared the height on his first try. D’Agostino placed fourth by clearing the height on his third and final attempt.
Sophomore Stephen Polito successfully defended his title in the 10,000-meter run in near championship record fashion. |
Sophomore Stephen Polito (Worcester, Mass./Doherty Memorial) successfully defended his title in the 10,000-meter run with a near NE-10 championship record time of 32:24.33, less than a second off the meet record and nearly a minute faster than the second place finisher. Polito captured the title as a freshman in 2009 with a time of 32:46.23.
Junior Daniel Newton (Reading, Mass./Reading Memorial) won the discus championship with a distance of 129’03”. He also placed third in the shot put with a throw of 46’04”. Classmate Mark White (Milton, Mass./Xaverian Brothers) finished third in the discus with a throw of 127’00” and tenth in the shot put (41’05”).
Junior Patrick Fullerton (Bradford, Mass./Haverhill) earned All-Conference honors in the 1500-meter run with a provisional NCAA Championship qualifying and school-record time of 3:49.95 – a mere 0.42-seconds behind winner Ruben Sanca of UMass Lowell, the NE-10 Male Athlete of the Year. Fullerton broke the previous school record of 3:50.17 set by Kevin Gill at Princeton’s Larry Ellis Invitational in 2008.
Fullerton also ran a leg of Stonehill’s 4x800-meter relay that placed fourth in 7:58.55. Also running for the Skyhawks was classmate Nick Campbell (Mansfield, Mass./Bishop Feehan) and freshmen Sean Hanlon (Georgetown, Mass./St. John’s Prep) and Sam Spencer (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk).
Hanlon also finished seventh in the 800-meter run in 1:55.36.
Junior Daniel Pilz (Newington, Conn./Newington) earned All-Conference honors for the second-straight year in the 3000-meter steeplechase with his time of 9:29.94. Freshman Ethan Penney (Haverhill, Mass./Haverhill) finished sixth in 9:53.07. Pilz won the event in 2009 with a time of 9:24.38.
Junior Patrick Fullerton provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 1500-meter run with a school-record breaking time to earn All-Conference honors. |
Freshman John Gelcius (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich) earned All-Conference honors in the javelin throw with a school-record distance of 182’03” to place second. He broke his own previous school and facility record of 178’07” set at the Skyhawk Invitational last weekend. Senior Tom Kilby (Fall River, Mass./BMC Durfee) placed fourth with a throw of 164’02”.
Other highlights for Stonehill include:
Junior Dan Fidler (Carlisle, Mass./Concord-Carlisle) finished fifth in the 5000-meter run with his time of 15:44.60.
Sophomore Dan Kincade (Brookfield, Conn./Brookfield) placed fifth in the hammer throw with a distance of 145’11”. He was also seventh in the javelin with a throw of 159’05”.
Freshmen Kevin McCann (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) and Luke Byrnes (Glen Head, N.Y./Chaminade) placed fifth and sixth, respectively in the pole vault as each cleared 13’05.25”. McCann cleared the height in one less attempt to edge out his teammate in the standings.
Stonehill returns to action this weekend, when it takes part in the New England Championships, hosted by Northeastern University in Dedham, Mass., Friday and Saturday.
