Cadets Bring Home Gold on Second Day of VT Invite

Saturday, January 14

Blacksburg, VA

11 a.m.

Army West Point

Virginia Tech

Cadets Bring Home Gold on Second Day of VT Invite

January 14, 2017 | Men's Track and Field

Results

WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army West Point men's track and field team finish the second day of the Virginia Tech Invitational with two athletes capturing individual titles.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

Track Events

Jose Santana brings home the first gold of the meet for the Black Knights in the 400m dash with a time of 49.07s.
Trevor Touchton (1:51.84) and Tyrell Maddox (1:54.27) continued the team's success in the 800m run placing third and fourth, respectfully.
Kevin Dyer ( 21.98s) and Andre Vaughn (22.51s) cracked the top ten in the 200m dash placing fifth and ninth, respectfully.
The Black Knights were the lone competitors in the 5000m run, led by Robert Santoyo (14:45.24) and Jacob Fong (14:48.15).

Field Events

Junior Bradley Gibson started the day off with a sixth place victory in the triple jump with a leap of 13.98m.
Dawson Hillis placed eighth in the shot put with a toss of 15.09m.
Jeff Giannettino placed first in the high jump reaching 2.14m, only .01m away from the school record.
Junior Lee Bares placed sixth in the pole vault reaching a height of 4.91m.

Coaches Comments

Mike Smith - Director of Track and Field/Cross Country "We had some men really step up today. If we wanted to accomplish our goals, we need to rise to a new level of good. I saw that from a lot of our men this weekend. This team is starting to figure things out. Jeff Giannetino looked very good in the high jump and came within one centimeter of our school record in dominating the meet. We tried a different combination in our men's 4x400 meter relay and had a result that should put us near the top of the conference. We competed well across the board on the oval and in the field and we had better marks today than last weekend. That is what I expect to happen. We need to get better each week. If we do that we will be where we need to be when it counts.

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