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Jan. 18, 2008

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Navy men's track & field team will host its second-consecutive four-team meet when Mount St. Mary's, UNC-Wilmington and William & Mary descend upon Halsey Field House this weekend. The competition will begin the first portion of the heptathlon on Friday, with all the remaining track & field events commencing on Saturday.

The Midshipmen come into this weekend's action with a 3-1 record on the year after defeating American, Penn and VCU last Saturday in Annapolis. Navy won 10 of the 17 events and produced a total of six IC4A marks. For the year, Navy owns a total of 13 IC4A Championship entries in 10 different events.

Highlighting the performances on Saturday was Patriot League Track Athlete of the Week Paul Harris (Sr./Fairburn, Ga.), who provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championship in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:51.05. The clocking currently ranks as the second-fastest time in the nation, only behind Alex McClary's 1:49.28 showing from Arkansas on a banked track last Friday. Harris's performance last week also was the ninth-fastest time in school history and he now owns seven of the program's ten-best all-time efforts in the indoor event.

Not to be overshadowed by Harris's excellence on the track, Darryl Hunter (Sr./Des Moines, Iowa) delivered an impressive performance in the shot put to earn Patriot League Field Athlete-of-the-Week kudos for the second-straight week. He won the event with an indoor career-best distance of 55'9" (16.99 meters), more than four feet better than the IC4A Championship qualifying standard and less than three feet away from the NCAA Championship provisional qualifying mark.

Distance runner John Olsen (Sr./Staten Island, N.Y.) qualified for the IC4A Championship in a second event last Saturday after winning the mile run with a time of 4:12.15. One week prior to that effort, he paced the field in the 3,000-meter run with a blistering 8:21.06 showing to earn Patriot League Track Athlete-of-the-Week honors.

Christopher Bordino (Jr./Gastonia, N.C.) matched his personal record set two weeks ago in the weight throw last Saturday with a toss of 56'1-1/4" (17.10 meters). Teammate Mark Van Order (So./Morris Plains, N.J.) just missed the IC4A Championship standard by one-half inch with his second-place, career-best distance of 55'1" (16.79 meters) on Saturday.

Two other Mids captured spots in the IC4A Championship last Saturday. Dante Marshall (Sr./Hermitage, Pa.) soared 46'11-1/2" (14.31 meters) in the triple jump, while Matthew Hanley's (So./Rapid City, S.D.) 7.71-second showing in the 55-meter hurdles finals qualified him for postseason action.

Mount St. Mary's comes into this weekend's action having delivered four top-four finishes at Bucknell's Gulden Relays last Saturday. William & Mary will be competing for the first time in more than a month, while UNC-Wilmington will make its indoor season debut in Annapolis this weekend.

After this week's action, the Midshipmen will head to the Ashenfelter Multi-Sport Facility for the Penn State National Open on Jan. 25-26, before hosting Army for the annual Star Meet in the last men's track & field competition in Halsey Field House on Feb. 2.