March 29, 2008

Complete Results

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Navy piled up 209.50 points to run away from Penn, Princeton and Colgate at the Navy Quadrangular on Saturday afternoon in Annapolis. The Mids won 11 of the 19 events and finished in the top three 21 total times. Penn finished second with 156.50 points, while Princeton and Colgate were third and fourth with 123.50 and 98.50 points, respectively.

Ron Belany led Navy with a trio of first-place finishes. The senior from Haiku, Hawai'i, topped the field in the long jump with a leap of 23-04. He would then take to the track to win his last two events. He claimed the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.63, then won his third event of the day with a clocking of 22.14 in the 200-meter dash.

Belany's effort in the long jump was one of five titles won by a Midshipman in the seven field events. Bo Lawson took the gold in the javelin with a throw of 207-06. Darryl Hunter, who also finished second in the shot put, won the discus with a toss of 163-06. Billy Stillman won the high jump with a jump of 6-02.25, and Phillip Martin took home top honors in the triple jump with a leap of 41-01.75.

The Mids' remaining titles came in the distance events on the track. Gavin MacGarva led a 1-2 finish in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a clocking of 9:33.72. Robert Alvarado was second in 9:37.17.

The Mids then went 1-2 in the 1,500-meter run with Lucas Burke leading the way in 3:59.48. Ben Kozy was second just eight hundredths of a second behind Burke with a time of 3:59.56.

Paul Harris led another 1-2 finish in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:51.31. Craig Meekins was second in 1:51.55.

Navy's other second-place finish came from Devan Clark in the javelin with a toss of 205-04.

Navy will compete next weekend at the Texas Relays, running from April 2 - 5 in Austin, Texas.

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