Army Takes First at Joe Donahue Games

Friday, January 20

Boston, MA

12 PM

Army West Point

Joe Donahue Games

Army Takes First at Joe Donahue Games

January 20, 2017 | Men's Track and Field

Results

WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army West Point men's track and field team placed first at the Joe Donahue Games Friday night accumulating 134 points.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

Track Events

Andre Vaughn places third in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.03 seconds.
Nick Beavers placed second with a time of 8.23 seconds, while Ross Purity captured fifth in the 60-meter hurdles at 8.49 seconds.
Tyrell Maddox stood atop the podium in the 500-meter dash with a time of 1:03.93.
The Black Knights had three in the top ten of the men's mile including a season best second place finish from Keagan Smith (4:11.70).
Bradley Gibson placed in second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 50.24s.
In the men's 800 meter run Jackson Sullivan glided into second place with a time of 1:57.37. He was joined by Alex Combs in fifth (1:57.90).
Jose Santana placed fourth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.42 seconds. He was joined by Andre Vaughn in eighth with a time of 22.91 seconds
Alex Tosi (8:59.15), Connor McDonald (9:00.07) and Randall Hahn (9:03.02) placed fourth, fifth and seventh, respectfully, in the 3000 meter run.
In the men's 4 x 400 relay the Black Knights' got a second place victory with a time of 3:18.13.

Field Events

Dawson Hillis (14.92 meter) and Garrett Kohnke (14.85m) placed 5th and 6th, respectfully, in the men's shot put.
In the men's long jump Tyler Davis placed third with a leap of 6.72 meters.
Jaeden Watson snuck in at 10th place in the high jump reaching the 1.83 meter mark.
In the men's pole vault, Lee Bares cleared the 4.80 meter mark to earn second place. He was joined by Luke Barstow (3.90 meters) in seventh.
Dawson Hillis (15.22 meters), Wyatt Doughty (14.06 meters) and Michael Renard (11.54 meters) all placed in the top ten for the men's weight throw.

Coaches Comments

Mike Smith - Director of Track and Field/Cross Country "We had some really competitive efforts today from some old guys and some young guys. Our captain Nick Beavers finished second in the 60-meter final and ran about as well as I have seen him run since I have been here. I thought Tyrell Maddox was very impressive in winning the 500 meter tonight. He is a fierce competitor and tonight that carried him to the win with a nice time improvement. I always look for people to improve. That should happen as the season goes along and fitness improves. So, I am not surprised to see better marks at each meet. The impressive thing about some of our performances tonight was the way we competed to win events. A good example was Keagan Smith in the mile where he finished second. The winner ran 4:00 and the race was way over Keagan's head if you look at his person best (4:15), but that did not deter him and he had a nice personal best. He is fearless. We did not bring our whole team this weekend as look ahead to the championship meets but the guys that we did bring did a nice job of competing to win. We are setting ourselves up nicely for the championship season."

UP NEXT

Army will split next weekend, Jan., 27–28, with half of the team going to the Penn State National Invitational and the other half going to the Ramapo College Indoor Select.

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