Cadets Perform at Leonard Hilton Invitational

Friday, January 12

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Army West Point

Ted Nelson Invitational

Cadets Perform at Leonard Hilton Invitational

January 12, 2018 | Men's Track and Field

WEST POINT, NY – The Army West Point men's track and field team completed the Leonard Hilton Invitational and day one of the Ted Nelson Invitational on Friday afternoon.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND MEET NOTES

"We traveled to the Houston area this weekend to take advantage of the long weekend to get some quality competition across multiple days," said head coach Mike Smith. "So most of our sprint, jump, and throw people competed at the University of Houston today and will compete again tomorrow at Texas A&M. The A&M meet is a scored meet and we do fairly well in that format, so we entered our teams with the objective of trying to be as competitive as possible in as many events as possible."

"The group at Houston had some nice seasonal improvements today and some great 2018 opening marks. I thought Kenneth Brinson did a great job of competing in the weight throw. He got off the plane last weekend and threw ok at the Wagner meet and today, with a few more days of practice, he nearly matched his lifetime best in the weight throw. He is a special talent and I suspect this strong early season mark is a sign of bigger things to come for him."

"Lee Bares won the vault at Houston today. He won't be pleased with the mark, but a win is a win and he is good at managing the event and coming out on top. We had a few other nice marks but those marks stood out for me."

"Our distance men did a nice job at Texas A&M tonight in the DMR and the 5k, and we are in the lead in the team standings going into tomorrow. We came out here to raise the competitive level of our team and I am sure we will be up against some great talent tomorrow. I am looking forward to seeing more improvements from the entire team tomorrow as we get started with the second day of the Texas A&M meet. The competitive level will go up quite a bit, so our guys will need to be ready to perform."

LEONARD HILTON INVITATIONAL
Track Events

In the 60 meter hurdles, Ross Puritty placed sixth with a time of 8.42 seconds.
Army took sixth in the 400-meter dash as Kedrin Jefferson clocked in at 52.09 seconds.
In the 800-meter run Anthony Boswell placed second with a time of 1:57.49, and Jeffrey Price placed fourth with a time of 1:59.12.
Andre Vaughn placed second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.45 seconds, and Marcus Denham clocked in at 23.06 seconds which was good for seventh.

Field Events

In the weight throw, Army claimed four of the top 10 spots. Kenneth Brinson placed second with a distance of 18.99m. Wyatt Doughty threw for 16.30m which was good for seventh place, Michael Renard placed ninth with 14.70m, and Geoff Kirk closed out in the tenth spot with a distance of 13.73.m.
Army took three of the top 10 spots in the shot put. Kirk took sixth with a distance of 15.63m, Renard took seventh with a distance of 15.43m, and Grant Alter threw 15.09m which was good for eighth.
Bernard Jenkins placed fourth in the high jump, clearing a height of 2.03m.
Lee Bares placed first in the pole vault, with a height of 4.90m. Joe Popek placed in this event as well, taking fifth with a height of 4.45m.
Tyrese Bender placed fifth in the triple jump with a distance of 14.1m, while Bradley Gibson placed sixth jumping 14.12m.

TED NELSON INVITATIONAL

In the distance medley relay, Army took third behind both Texas A&M teams with a time of 10:06.27.
The men took the top three spots in the 5000 meter race. Benjamin Petrella (14:41.70) took first, Robbie Santoyo (15:01.51) took second, and John Valeri (15:04.9) claimed third.
These scores placed Army at the front of the pack heading into Saturday.

UP NEXT
The team returns to action on Jan.20 at the Penn 8-Team Select in Staten Island, N.Y., hosted by UPenn.

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