University of Connecticut Athletics
University of Connecticut
Albany NY
Eight Huskies Victorious At Second Annual Dogfight
4/23/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Track and Field
April 23, 2011
ALBANY, N.Y. - Eight Huskies were able to post individual victories this afternoon, with four coming in track events and four in field events, as the University of Connecticut men's track and field team posted 89 team points in the second annual Dogfight. The Albany Great Danes were led by nine top finishes, as they topped the Huskies with 105 team points.
"We had a lot of opportunities today, but Albany just out-matched us in some events," head coach Greg Roy said. "We were able to close it down in a few events, but we just couldn't close it out for the meet. We had some issues with our lineup going in, but we knew that and we weren't able to capitalize when we needed to. We knew it would be a close meet and we needed to pick up every point that we could, but we just didn't do that in the end."
Overall, five Huskies posted IC4A qualifying marks this afternoon, including three in the 100m dash from Jesse Drinks, Kevin Smith and Darnell Cummings. Drinks won the event with a time of 10.64, while Smith placed second with a time of 10.72 and Cummings was seventh in 10.85. Cummings also had a top finish in the 200m dash, as he placed second in a time of 22.23.
One of UConn's best events of the day was the 800m run, with three Huskies placing in the top-four, including Dan Holst who won the race in 1:51.94. Tim Bennatan placed third with a time of 1:56.12 and Lucas Clyne was fourth (1:56.30) to round out the Husky finishers.
Mike Rutt and Aaron King were the final top finishers in track events for UConn, as Rutt won the 1,500m run with a time of 3:53.63 and King won the 110m hurdles in 14.94.
UConn's top field performance of the day came in the javelin, as the Huskies placed one, two, three in the event. Winning the javelin was Justin Siekierski with a distance of 58.10m, while Eric Alfiere was second (57.46m) and Dylan Dombrowski was third (56.81m).
The other three field victories came from Noel James in the high jump (2.00m), Cory Duggan in the pole vault (4.40m) and Mike Alleman in the shot put (16.94m). The Huskies also placed second in both the pole vault and shot put events, with Matt Alexander taking second place in the pole vault (4.25m) and Eric Masington taking second in the shot put (14.72m).
Masington and Joshua Faboyede were the final Huskies to finish in the top-two on the day, as Masington recorded a distance of 46.12m in the discus and Faboyede had an IC4A qualifying mark of 55.86m in the hammer.
Along with his victory in the 110m hurdles, King placed third in the long jump with a mark of 6.89m, and also finished third in the triple jump with a mark of 13.60m.
Next up for the Huskies will be the Penn Relays, as UConn will compete against some of the best teams in the nation from Thursday, April 28 to Saturday, April 30 in Philadelphia, Pa.
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