Fay Wins Pole Vault, Breaks Meet Record on Day One of Indoor Championship

Saturday, February 16

Annapolis, Md.

10 a.m.

Bucknell University

Patriot League Championships

Photo by: Marc Hagemeier

Fay Wins Pole Vault, Breaks Meet Record on Day One of Indoor Championship

2/16/2019 8:22:00 PM | Men's Track and Field

Day 1 Results

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Bucknell University men's track and field team sits in third place after several impressive individual performances, including a record-breaking effort from senior pole vaulter Matt Fay, on day one of the Patriot League Indoor Championships.

Fay earned a Patriot League title after clearing 17-4.5, a school, facility, and meet record. The senior from New Rochelle, N.Y. smashed his previous personal-best of 16-6.75 that he set earlier in the year. The school-record of 17-3 set by Dave Pomfret had stood since the year 2000. Fay won the gold medal after a third-place finish a year ago.

Also in the pole vault, Nicholas Marino posted a strong day by finishing tied for fifth after clearing 15-9 to secure 3.5 points for the Bison.

Jeff Brown moved on in the 60-meter dash, running just shy of his school-record time of 6.81 with a 6.82 in the prelims. He also narrowly missed out on qualifying in the 200, running a 22.10.

Billy Melchionni qualified for Sunday's finals in the 200, running a 21.57 to break his own personal best of 21.8 and moving solely into third place on Bucknell's all-time list. Melchionni was tied with recent Hall of Fame Inductee Noel Powell for third. His time is .02 shy of Christian Lupica's 21.55 for second on the all-time list.

Micah Sims scored in the long jump, placing fourth with an IC4A-qualifying leap of 23-4.5. The mark is just shy of the tenth-best mark in Bucknell history at 23-4.75. Steven Bolger also scored in the event, picking up an eighth-place finish with a leap of 22-1.5 coming out of the first flight.

The 4x800-meter relay team of Brett Zatlin, Robert Dessoye, Sean Conway, and Scott Gulizio finished in fourth with an IC4A-qualifying time of 7:36.25 in a tough field .

Senior Landin Delaney picked up a point in the men's 5,000 by finishing eighth overall.

C.J. Falcioni earned a top-ten finish in the weight throw with a heave of 55-7.5. Ninh Lam followed in eleventh with a throw of 54-10.   Ethan Dunne earned a seventh place finish in the heptathlon through the first day of action.

Navy's has the team lead after day one with 73.5 points, followed by Army West Point (57), Bucknell (25.5) and Lehigh (17) in the top four. Lafayette (8), Holy Cross (7), Boston University (4), Colgate (2) and American (1) round out the standings.

The Bison will round out the competition beginning at 12 p.m. on Sunday. The action will be streamed live on the Patriot League Network.