March 3, 2007
Results
BOSTON - Navy men's track & field junior Craig Meekins (Baldwin, N.Y.) qualified for the finals of the 800-meter run as the Midshipmen competed in the opening day of the IC4A Championship at Boston University on Saturday.
The Midshipmen did not earn a point on Saturday, as many of the events were in the preliminary round and several other events and all event finals are slated for Sunday.
Meekins raced to a third-place finish in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:51.48, matching his season-best mark at the Iowa State Classic less than a month ago. The showing on Saturday ties him for seventh-fastest mark in school history and he now owns four of the program's ten-best times in the event. His clocking was 0.48-second off the first-place time run by Seton Hall's Rob Novak.
Senior team captain Cameron Lindsay (Kernersville, N.C.) narrowly missed qualification for Sunday's finals in the 500-meter run despite a career-best time. He crossed the finish line with a 1:03.91 showing for 12th place, only 0.39-second away from the final-qualifying time.
Junior Lucas Burke (Bakersfield, Calif.) ran the 1,000-meter run in 2:28.08 to finish in 12th-place. Sophomore Andrew Grant (Athens, Ga.) placed 26th in the mile run with a 8:45.94 clocking and junior Ron Belany (Haiku, Hawai'i) landed 16th in the long jump with a distance of 21'10-3/4" (6.67 meters).
In addition to the IC4A Championship, Navy sent its distance medley relay team to the Alex Wilson Invitational on Friday in Notre Dame, Ind. The unit of juniors Paul Harris (Woodbury, Minn.), Jeff Sarchione (Alliance, Ohio), William Ricks (Sussex, Va.) and Ben Kozy (Houston, Texas) combined for a time of 21st-place time of 9:50.86.
The Midshipmen will close out the IC4A Championship tomorrow with competitors seeing action in the 800-meter run, high jump, triple jump and shot put.
