Results

Kingston, R.I. - The Navy men's track and field team competed at the University of Rhode Island Invitational on Saturday in Kingston, Rhode Island. The Midshipmen recorded six IC4A-qualifying performances and three first-place finishes.

"A lot of our younger guys got a chance to compete at the meet to stay fit leading up to our Army-Navy and Patriot League Championship meets," Navy head coach Stephen Cooksey said. "It was good to see [Austin] Batiste, [Kai] Hinton and [Jiles] Maness finish on top in their respective events."

Junior Austin Batiste (Long Beach, Calif.) led Navy with a first-place finish in the 400m dash with a time of 49.15 (IC4A). Teammate Glen Harris (Jr., Atlanta, Ga.) finished third with a time of 49.74.

Kai Hinton (Jr., Sacramento, Calif.) grabbed first-place in the 1000m run, crossing the tape with a time of 2:30.01. Sophomore Nate Gainey (Ellicott City, Md.) earned Navy's highest finish in the 500m run with a third-place time of 1:06.03.

Navy's distance runners of Zach Hebda (Sr. Pittsburgh, Pa.), Ryan McCoy (So., New Glarus, Wis.) and Kyle Davis (Sr., North Brunswick, N.J.) tallied three of the top four runners in the mile run. Hebda led the group with a second-place time of 4:16.65 followed by McCoy and Davis with times of 4:17.12 and 4:17.58, respectively.

Junior Jiles Maness (Winston Salem, N.C.) matched his season-best mark in the pole vault with a first-place mark of 17ft-2.75in (5.25m).

Sophomore Griffie Loy (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) and senior Tom Buffone (Freehold, N.J.) recorded IC4A-qualifying throws in the shot put with marks of 52ft-9.25in (16.08m) and 51ft-6.5in (15.71m). Buffone then tallied an IC4A-qualifying mark in the weight throw with a toss of 58ft-4in (17.78m) for second place. Freshman John Campbell (Amarillo, Texas) grabbed fifth-place in the weight throw with a mark of 55ft-9.25in (17.00m) (IC4A).

Navy will look ahead to the Wesley A. Brown Field House Invitational on Saturday at 11 a.m. The Mids will host The Citadel, UMBC, Maryland-Eastern Shore and George Washington.