May 3, 2012

Live Results

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Navy men's outdoor track and field team (13-0) will compete in the 2012 Patriot League Outdoor Championship at Holy Cross' Hart Field this Friday-Saturday. The competition on the men's side will begin with the 10,000m run on Friday at 9:45 AM. Saturday's events will begin with the high jump and the 3,000m steeplechase at 11:30 AM.

Head coach Stephen Cooksey, a five-time Patriot League Coach of the Year, has the Mids aiming for a second Patriot League outdoor title and a sixth overall. Navy placed third at the 2011 outdoor league meet in Easton, Pa., scoring 132.5 team points and winning four individual titles. Bucknell won the 2011 team title.

Senior Chris Boniwell is the lone returning Patriot League individual champion for Navy after winning the shot put with a mark of 53-11 last spring. The Mids have five runner-up finishers from last year's meet that will be shooting for league titles in 2012. Alex Jackson is back after taking second place in the 400m, Lucas Connelly was second in the 800m, Cody Rome was the runner-up in the 1,500m, Zack Duncavage took second in the discus and team captain Chris Ricks placed second in the hammer.

Navy enters the weekend with six athletes ranked No. 1 in their respective events on the Patriot League performance list. Senior Dominic Della Pelle heads the 1,500m (3:47.69), Cody Rome is first in the 5,000m (14:01.36) and James Pearson owns a league-leading 10,000m run time of 30:06.77. Senior Paul Neidhardt is ranked first in the pole vault, Duncavage has the top discus mark and junior Miles Snelgrove is the top-ranked javelin thrower.

Duncavage set a school record in the discus earlier this season with a mark of 181-6 (55.33m).

Navy currently has five athletes ranked in the top 48 of the NCAA's East Region, keeping them on pace to earn a berth to the NCAA's East Regional in Jacksonville later this month. Duncavage has the highest ranking at No. 9 in the discus, senior Ken Bunnell is 21st in the 3,000m steeplechase, Snelgrove is 24th in the javelin, Rome is 32nd in the 5K and senior Josh Houston is 48th in the high jump. Duncavage and Rome both qualified for the regional last year in the discus and 5,000m run, respectively.

The Mids are ranked No. 5 in the latest USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region rankings. Other Patriot League teams include Bucknell at No. 7 and Lafayette at No. 11 in the Mid-Atlantic and Army at No. 12 in the Northeast.

Navy's biggest feat to date of the spring season was defeating Army in the annual outdoor Star Meet, 102.5-100.5. The meet came down to the final event, the 4x400m relay, which Navy won by 1.23 seconds to break a 97.5-97.5 tie and complete a season sweep of the Black Knights.

Following the Patriot League Outdoor Championship, Navy will compete in the IC4A Championship in Princeton from May 11-13.

Friday Schedule of Events
Time 	Track Events
9:00 	Women's 10,000
9:45	Men's 10,000
2:30 	Women's 100m Hurdle Trial
2:45 	Men's 110m Hurdle Trial
3:00 	Women's 100m Trial
3:15 	Men's 100m Trial
3:30	Women's 4 x 800m Relay
3:50 	Men's 4 x 800m Relay
4:10 	Women's 200m Trials
4:25  	Men's 200m Trials
Time 	Jumping Events
11:30	Women's Pole Vault
1:00  	Women's Long Jump
2:30	Men's Pole Vault
3:30  	Men's Long Jump
Time 	Throwing Events
12:00	Women's Javelin
12:00 	Men's Hammer
2:30   	Women's Hammer
2:30   	Men's Javelin
Time	Multi Events
10:30	Decathlon 100m
11:05	Decathlon Long Jump
12:20 	Decathlon Shot Put
1:35  	Decathlon High Jump
3:50	Decathlon 400m
10:45	Heptathlon 100m Hurdles
11:30	Heptathlon High Jump
1:30	Heptathlon Shot Put
2:45  	Heptathlon 200m
Saturday Schedule of Events
Time    Track Events
11:00 	Women's 3000m Steeplechase
11:30	Men's 3000m Steeplechase
12:00 	Women's 4 x 100m Relay
12:10 	Men's 4 x 100m Relay
12:15 	Women's 1500m
12:30 	Men's 1500m
12:45 	Women's 100m Hurdles
1:00  	Men's 110m Hurdles
1:10  	Women's 400m
1:25  	Men's 400m
1:40   	Women's 100m
1:45   	Men's 100m
1:50   	Women's 800m
2:05   	Men's 800m
2:25   	Women's 400m Hurdles
2:35   	Men's 400m Hurdles
2:50   	Women's 200m
2:55   	Men's 200m
3:05   	Women's 5000m
3:30    Men's 5000m
3:55   	Women's 4 x 400m Relay
4:05 	Men's 4 x 400m Relay
Time	Jumping Events
11:30	Women's Triple Jump
11:30	Men's High Jump
1:45 	Men's Triple Jump
1:45  	Women's High Jump
Time 	Throwing Events
11:30 	Men's Shot Put
12:00 	Women's Discus
2:00  	Women's Shot Put
2:30  	Men's Discus
Time 	Multi-Events
10:15 	Decathlon 110m Hurdles
10:55 	Decathlon Discus
12:15	Decathlon Pole Vault
2:15  	Decathlon Javelin
3:45  	Decathlon 1500m
10:15 	Heptathlon Long Jump
12:15 	Heptathlon Javelin
1:45  	Heptathlon 800m