Jan. 17, 2016 Complete Results
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Senior sprinter Jordan Sartor-Francis' (Jonesboro, Ga.) school-record breaking 60-meter dash time of 6.82 helped lead the Navy men's track and field team to a second-place finish at the Great Dane Classic on Saturday.
UConn grabbed the team title at the meet with a score of 110.25 points. Navy finished a close second with 100.75 points and Buffalo placed third with 67.5 points. Rutgers (61), Albany (58.5) and Villanova (45) rounded out the top six.
"We had a lot strong individual performances against a strong field today and I could not have been more proud," Navy head coach Stephen Cooksey said. "Jordan (Sartor-Francis) continues to get better and better by the meet, but I would be remiss not to mention how our team as a whole got better today."
Sartor-Francis, who held the school record in the 60m dash before the meet, broke his own time by 0.03 seconds for a third-place finish. The Jonesboro, Ga., native's current time of 6.82 is the fastest in the Patriot League. Sartor-Francis also placed third in the 200-meter dash, crossing the tape at 21.41. His 200-meter dash time is also the fastest mark in the Patriot League and the 24th fastest mark in the nation.
Senior Austin Batiste (Long Beach, Calif.) placed third in the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.19. Junior Mitchell Pratt (Temple City, Ariz.) clocked a third-place time of 8:24.06 in the 3,000-meter run, which shaved off 17 seconds from his previous 2016 best time. Pratt's current time placed him to the top the Patriot League fastest in 2016.
Navy's cross country runners shined in the 5,000-meter run, placing three in the top six. Junior Lucas Stalnaker (Tega Cay, S.C) paced the pack of 24 with a first-place personal-best time of 14:17.73, which was 22 seconds faster from the next finisher. Teammates Ryan Speir (Burr Ridge, Ill.) and Gabriel Collison (La Crescenta, Calif.) finished fourth and sixth, respectively, with times of 14:46.72 and 14:51.68.
Freshman Kordell Williams (Upper Marlboro, Md.) strung together his third-straight IC4A-qualifying performance in the 60-meter hurdles with a third-place time of 8.12. Williams currently owns the Patriot League's fastest mark in the event at 8.09.
Senior Jiles Maness led the Mids in the field events with a first-place finish in the pole vault. Maness recorded his third-straight meet with an IC4A-qualifying mark of 16ft-2.75in (4.95m). Sophomore Tyler Russell (Fort Collins, Colo.) placed second in the high jump, crossing the bar at 6ft-8.25in (2.04m).
In the throwing events, junior Griffie Loy (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) finished third in the shot put with a mark of 55ft-3in (16.84m). Teammates John Campbell (Amarillo, Texas) and Billy Grammer (Heber Springs, Ark.) placed third and fifth, respectively, in the weight throw with marks of 58ft-6in (17.83m) and 57ft-7.75in (17.57m).
Navy will travel to Princeton for the Tiger Open on Saturday. The meet will begin at 10 a.m. in the L. Stockwell Jadwin Gymnasium.
