Army Finishes Competition over the Weekend

Saturday, April 22

Princeton, NJ

10 a.m.

Army West Point

Larry Ellis Invitational

Photo by: Don Felice

Army Finishes Competition over the Weekend

April 22, 2017 | Men's Track and Field

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Army West Point men's track and field team split their squad with some competing at the Larry Ellis Invitational and the other half competing at the UAlbany Spring Classic.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

LARRY ELLIS INVITATIONAL
TRACK EVENTS

Ross Purity finished 11th in the 110-meter hurdles clocking 15.03s.
First-year Tyrell Maddox finished ninth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.18s.
Tyler Davis stood atop the podium in the 100-meter dash crossing the finish line in 10.69s.
In the 800-meter run Alex Combs finished third with a time of 1:53.52. He was joined by John Monday (1:54.54) in ninth.
Davis captured second in the 200-meter dash clocking 21.64s.
The 4x400 meter relay team of Bradley Gibson, Maddox, Marcus Denham and Jose Santana finished third with a time of 3:16.18.

FIELD EVENTS

In the long jump Ben Sims placed 13th with a leap of 6.65 meters.
Jeff Giannettino placed fourth in the high jump reaching 2.04 meters.
In the pole vault Lee Bares captured seventh with a height of 4.85 meters.

UALBANY SPRING CLASSIC
TRACK EVENTS

In the 800-meter run Jackson Sullivan captured placed ninth clocking 1:58.40.
Connor Russel placed third in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 55.82s.

FIELD EVENTS

Dawson Hillis (15.76m) and Garrett Kohnke (15.54m) went three, four in the shot put.
Hillis went on to win the discus with a toss of 49.32 meters. He is joined by Kenneth Brinson (45.49m) in fourth, Michael Renard (42.01m) in fifth, Grant Alter (41.81m) in sixth, Wyatt Doughty (40.68m) in seventh, Jacob Stauffer (39.64m) in ninth and Kohnke (39.28m) in tenth.
Doughty placed second in the hammer throw with a toss of 56.11 meters.
Michael Gabrielsen captured fourth in the javelin with a distance of 53.14 meters.

COACHES CORNER
"We were very good this weekend. We did not compete everyone as we look ahead to the championship meets that are coming, but the guys that we brought to Princeton did a lot of really good things. I place a great deal of emphasis on competing to win. More often than not our sport is mark based. We talk about time, height or distance. While that is important it is just as important that we teach our people how to find ways to win, how to respond to adversity and how to get to the finish line before everyone else."

Yesterday and today our guys repeatedly won. While the times were not always a personal best or a nationally relevant mark the result were what matters. We won multiple heats of the 800-meter and the 1500-meter. Davis was top two in both races that he ran and if guys did not win, they were right there battling for the win. We can't control what heats our people are placed in. We can only enter and go compete and that is what we did. The results of this meet will serve us well as we head to the Patriot League Championships in two weeks. We are ready to battle for wins."

UP NEXT:
The Black Knights will compete in the Penn Relays April 27-29.

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