BOSTON, MA – Five members of the men's track and field team represented Saint Peter's at the ECAC/IC4A Championships at Boston University's Track and Tennis Center.
Graduate student
Delano Gooden and freshman
Ameen Zubair are both in pursuit of gold in the 60m.
At 1:35 p.m., freshman
Ajani Peck-Wekunda and sophomore
Connor Ziolkowski competed in the men's 500m prelims. The top ten times advanced to the finals, set for tomorrow at 12:05 p.m.
Peck-Wekunda finished 14th overall, clocking in at 1:05.69—just .37 seconds shy of the final qualifying spot—while also setting a new personal best.
Ziolkowski finished right behind him in 15th with a time of 1:06.84. Rider's
Dallas Hohney secured the top seed heading into the final with a time of 1:02.91.
Hensley Jean Baptiste competed in the 400m but was disqualified due to a lane violation.
Gooden and
Zubair opened the day for Saint Peter's in the 60m preliminaries at 11:15 a.m. The top two from each heat, along with the next ten fastest times, advanced to the semifinals.
Zubair finished second in his heat (H2) with a time of 7.011, trailing Manhattan's
Darion Lopez (6.916). The third, fourth, and fifth-place finishers from the heat also secured semifinal spots.
Gooden placed third in his heat (H3) with a time of 6.92, earning the seventh-fastest time overall. FDU's
Xavier Hayletts led the way into the semifinals with a personal best of 6.89, while Vermont's
Alex Siaton finished second and claimed the fourth overall spot.
An hour and a half later, the semifinals were underway. The top two from each heat, plus the next five fastest times, moved on to the finals.
Gooden and
Zubair raced head-to-head in heat two, with
Gooden placing third in 6.876, securing the fifth overall spot in the final.
Zubair finished fifth in the heat with a time of 6.98, claiming the ninth and final qualifying position. Manhattan's
Lopez won the heat with a personal best of 6.84, while LIU's
Sage Primus also hit a PR (6.873) to take second. Vermont's
Siaton recorded the fastest overall semifinal time, setting a personal best of 6.81.
The 60m final is set for tomorrow at 11:20 a.m.
Zubair will race in lane 1, and
Gooden in lane 3. The full lane assignments are as follows: Coppin State's
Cole Schlotterbeck (2), LIU's
Primus (4), Vermont's
Siaton (5), Manhattan's
Lopez (6), FDU's
Hayletts (7), Binghamton's
Marcus Nahim (8), and Mount St. Mary's
Abdoulaye Bah (9).
Day one results
here.
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