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Colonial Relays
Bucknell Track & Field Posts Strong Start at Colonial Relays
4/2/2010 8:00:00 AM | Women's Track and Field
April 2, 2010
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Bucknell track and field completed day one at the William & Mary Colonial Relays at Zable Stadium on Friday with both the men's and women's teams have already posting quality results. The Bison women got 17 points from their throwers Laura Rycek (Northampton, Pa./Northampton Area) led a group of three scoring javelin throwers and Chelsey Musante (Shelton, Conn./Shelton) tallied points in the hammer. The men's squad is up to 29 points through the first day, led by Ted Heitzman's (Elysburg, Pa./Southern Columbia) second-place finish in the javelin.
After the first day of competition, the men find themselves in seventh place with 28 points in the team standings. William & Mary leads with 81 points. The women are tied for 11th place with Temple as both teams have 17 points. Heading the team standings on the women's side is Villanova with 71 points.
To along with the points scored at the relay meet, the men's team posted five IC4A-qualifying finishes and recorded three program top-10 marks. Two Bison women also put their names on the Bucknell record lists, and Rycek qualified for the ECAC Championships with her javelin performance.
Rycek threw a season-best 140 feet, 6 inches to finish second overall in the javelin. It was the second consecutive meet in which the junior has taken the runner-up position. Also scoring in the event were Kat Folger (Groton, Mass./Bishop Guertin) in sixth (129-6) and Tayler Siegrist (Madison, N.J./Madison) in seventh (128-4).
The men's javelin throwers were equally successful as Heitzman's second-place throw of 218-5 gave him his second IC4A Championships-qualifying standard in as many meets and moved him up to third all-time at Bucknell. Steven Pierce (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) was sixth with a mark of 193-6.
Musante was fifth overall in the hammer with a season-best 162-8. Back on the men's side, Jonathan Lockhart (Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge) was fifth in the shot put with a heave of 49-9.
The throwers were not the only ones to see success as the Bison's distance runners put up some quality times on the track. Stephanie Fulmer (Pottstown, Pa./St. Pius X) and Sarah Moniz (Topsfield, Mass./Masconomet Regional) both made their marks in the Bucknell record books in the 1,500 meters. The two finished within one second of each other, but it was Fulmer with the edge in 13th place with a time of 4 minutes, 34.68 seconds. Moniz was 14th overall in 4:35.43. The duo now ranks sixth and seventh, respectively, in program history.
Also finishing well in the long distances was Stephen Dorsey (North Wales, Pa./Casalle Collegiate). The junior qualified for the IC4A Championships in the 10,000 meters with a time of 30:59.62, good for 11th in the race.
Andrew Yehl (Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown), Robert Arent (New Providence, N.J./New Providnce) and Dan Mularz (Englishtown, N.J./Freehold Township) had a good handle on the hurdles for the Bison. Yehl finished sixth overall in the 110 hurdles with a time of 14.66 seconds, while Arent was fifth in the 400 hurdles after crossing the line in 53.07 seconds. Arent improved on his personal-best time, but remains third all-time on Bucknell's record lists. Although Mularz was just 12th in the 400 hurdles, the sophomore ran a personal-best, finishing in 54.51, good for sixth all-time on the program's top-10 list.
Rounding out the scoring for Bucknell's men's team were Isaih Bell (Stone Mountain, Ga./Clarkston) and Daniel Markwalter (Vienna, Va./Thomas Jefferson S&T). Bell was seventh in the long jump with a distance of 22-5 ¼, while Markwalter was fifth in the pole vault after clearing 13-3 ½.
The Bison will close out the Colonial Relays tomorrow with field events resuming at 9 a.m.
