Stonehill Competes at George Davis Invitational

Freshman Corey Thomas set school records in the 110-meter hurdles and high jump for the second-straight week.???

Stonehill Competes at George Davis Invitational

Thomas enjoys another record-setting afternoon, joins Fullerton as event winner

Complete Results

LOWELL, Mass. (April 11, 2010) – The Stonehill College men’s outdoor track and field team picked up two individual victories and saw more records fall while competing at the George Davis Invitational, hosted by the University of Massachusetts Lowell, on Saturday.

Freshman Corey Thomas (Brookline, Mass./BC High) continued to shine with two more record-setting performances. First, he dominated the 110-meter hurdles for the second-straight week with a first place finish. His facility, meet and school-record run of 14.75-seconds was over a half second faster than the second place time of 15.30. He broke his own school record of 14.80-seconds set in his winning performance at the Bryant Invitational last weekend. He also shattered the meet and facility record of 14.99-seconds set by Donte Brown at the event in 2008. Thomas finished second in the high jump with a school-record height of 6’10.75, improving his previous school-record and provisional qualifying height of 6’09.50” set last weekend.

Junior Patrick Fullerton (Bradford, Mass./Haverhill) led a pack of six Stonehill runners in the 1500-meter run as he placed first overall (out of 55 competitors) in 3:55.79. Freshman Sean Hanlon (Georgetown, Mass./St. John’s Prep) rounded out the top five in 4:01.76, while junior Daniel Pilz (Newington, Conn./Newington) took 13^th in 4:05.47 and sophomore Stephen Polito (Worcester, Mass./Doherty Memorial) was 15^th in 4:06.60.

Freshman Luke Byrnes (Glen Head, N.Y./Chaminade) finished first among collegiate entries and second overall in the pole vault with a height of 13’05.00”. Classmate Kevin McCann (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) was fifth at 12’05.25”.

Other highlights for Stonehill include:

Freshman John Gelcius (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich) placed third in the javelin with a throw of 176’00” and was 13^th in the shot put at 39’03.75”.

Sophomore Dan Kincade (Brookfield, Conn./Brookfield) was fifth in the javelin with a distance of 169’04”.

Junior Mark White (Milton, Mass./Xaverian Brothers) was fifth in the discus throw with a distance of 136’06”, while also placing 15^th in the shot put at 38’06.25”.

Junior Daniel Fidler (Carlisle, Mass./Concord-Carlisle) led five Skyhawks in the two-mile run with a time of 9:28.95 to place sixth overall (out of 45 runners). Freshman Ethan Penney (Haverhill, Mass./Haverhill) was 15^th in 9:43.72, while sophomore Corey Donahoe (Billerica, Mass./Billerica Memorial) was 21^st in 9:58.93.

Junior Daniel Newton (Reading, Mass./Reading Memorial) placed sixth for the shot put with a throw of 43’09.25”. He was also eighth in the discus with a distance of 128’11”.

Sophomore John Driscoll (Revere, Mass./Revere) was seventh in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 58.49-seconds. Freshman Michael Miela (Foothill Ranch, Calif./Trabuco Hills) finished ninth in 1:00.14.

Freshman Colin Prior (Georgetown, Mass./St. John’s Prep) placed 12^th in the 100-meter dash in 11.84-seconds. He was also 14^th in the 200-meter dash in 24.11-seconds. He placed 17^th in the long jump with a leap of 18’04.25”.

Junior Nathan Morse (Whitinsville, Mass./Holy Name) led five Skyhawks in the 800-meter run with a 14^th place finish (out of 62 runners) in 2:00.75. He was followed by four freshmen as Ryan Coene (Tyngsboro, Mass./Tyngsboro) was 22^nd in 2:02.44, Todd Sather (Melville, N.Y./Saint Anthony’s) 26^th in 2:03.02, Daniel Padilla (Bronx, N.Y./Mount Saint Michael Academy) 41^st in 2:08.26 and Ramses Monteiro (Peabody, Mass./Peabody) 45^th in 2:09.22.

Stonehill placed seventh in the 4x400-meter relay in 3:32.57. Running for the Skyhawks were Morse, Hanlon, Miela and sophomore Pal Lul (Portland, Maine/North Yarmouth Academy).

Stonehill is back in action next weekend with the team splitting up between the Larry Ellis Invitational, hosted by Princeton University, on Friday and Saturday as well as the Holy Cross Invitational on Saturday.