Army Falls to Navy at Star Meet

Saturday, February 3

Annapolis, MD

TBA

Army West Point

Army-Navy Star Meet

Army Falls to Navy at Star Meet

February 03, 2018 | Men's Track and Field

ANNAPOLIS, MD. - The Army West Point men's track and field team fell to service-academy rival Navy, 97-84, in the annual Army-Navy Star match Saturday morning.

Coach's Quotes:
"I thought we competed really well today," said head coach Mike Smith. "I wish the outcome was different obviously, but the Navy men competed very well and it came down to a very small margin in a lot of events between first and second. You have to have more first place finished because of the point scoring system. We were unable to get the right number of fives to pull it out. If you look at the results, in event after event, our people are running, jumping and throwing lifetime bests, but there is a Navy person just ahead of them by centimeters or tenths of a second, and that made the difference."

"These are the best marks we've had as a team since I've been here, but they weren't enough, and there weren't enough wins. Having said that, we had some great wins."

"Lee [Bares] won the pole vault, again. Tyrell [Maddox] won the 500 meters, again. Tyler Davis won the 60m, and Ben Petrella won the 3K. Jeff Giannettino in the high jump. Some of those marks were just outstanding. We were good, just not good enough."

"We were equaling our lifetime bests or we were setting lifetime bests, and Navy was doing the same. It was really a very good, competitive, men's dual meet and we just came up on the short end of it. But I can't tell this team we didn't compete well, because we did. We just got beat by a better team."

Track Events

Keagan Smith claimed second place in the mile run with a time of 4:06.33, which was a season best for the team and a personal best for the sophomore. Daniel Mazzei claimed fourth with a time of 4:14.64. John Valeri finished fifth in the mile with a time of 4:17.07.
Ross Purrity placed third in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.21 seconds, a personal record for the senior. Conner Russell placed fifth with a time of 8.84 seconds, a personal record for the junior.
In the 400 meters, Drew Bullen finished in third place with a time of 49.64, and Russell finished fifth clocking in at 52.74.
Tyrell Maddox won the 500 meter run with a time of 1:03.48, a season best for the team. Jeffrey Price finished fifth with a time of 1:06.67.
Army finished 1-2 in the 60 meter dash, with Tyler Davis clocking at 6.80, a season best for the team and a personal record for the senior. Kevin Dyer clocked in at 6.81.
Nick Causey finished second in the 800m, with a time of 1:52.59 and was followed by Mark Baker in fourth with a time of 1:55.22.
Ben Boswell placed second in the 1000m with a time of 2:24.88, a season best for the team and personal best for the junior. Mikey Singer finished fourth with a time of 2:26.59.
Army took third and fourth in the 200m. Dyer finished with a time of 21.66 and Kedrin Jefferson clocked in at 21.87.
Ben Petrella finished first with a time of 8:13.39 in the 3000m, a PR for the sophomore and a season best for the team. Robbie Santoyo followed in fifth with a time of 8:27.38.
Army won the 4x400m relay, clocking in at 3:19.39. The team consisted of Davis, Bullen, Gibson, and Maddox.
Army also won the 4x800m relay with a time of 7:51.18. The team consisted of Alex Combs, Jackson Sullivan, Smith, and Causey.

Field Events

Kenneth Brinson won the weight throw with a personal record distance of 19.39m. Jacob Stauffer took fifth with a distance of 16.49, and Wyatt Doughty placed sixth, throwing for 15.32m.
Army finished 2-4 in the long jump. Tyler Davis placed second with a distance of 7.07m, a PR for the senior and season best for the team. Drew Bullen finished third jumping 6.86m, and Kevin Kurth claimed fourth with 6.75m.
Lee Bares claimed first in the pole vault with a final height of 5.10m. Joe Popek (4.65m) finished fifth, and Joseph Price (4.50m) placed sixth.
Army took 4-6 in the shot put. In fourth was Michael Renard with 15.45m, Grant Alter finished fifth with 15.13m, and Geoff Kirk threw for 14.34 which was good for sixth.
Tyrese Bender placed second in the triple jump, clearing a distance of 14.29m, and Bradley Gibson took third with 14.21m.
Army claimed the top three spots in the high jump with Jeff Giannettino in first, clearing a height of 2.14m. Bryce Samuel and Bernard Jenkins finished second and third respectively, with a height of 1.99m.

UP NEXT: The Black Knights will compete in the FastTrack National Invitational on Feb.9 at the Ocean Breeze Track in Staten Island, N.Y.

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