Teams: Men's Track & Field: Schedule & Results

TUFTS NIPS SPRINGFIELD FOR SECOND PLACE AT NEW ENGLAND DIV. III CHAMPIONSHIPS
Five Jumbos hit NCAA qualifying marks at meet

COLLEGE MEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
New England Division III Championship Meet
At Springfield, MA
Thursday-Saturday, May 3-5, 2007

Championship Results

SPRINGFIELD -- Again flexing its depth, the Tufts University men's outdoor track & field team took second place at the 2007 New England Division III Championships hosted by Springfield College. Tufts scored 91.5 points, edging the 89 points scored by host Springfield for second place. Williams won the title with 137.5 points.

The Jumbos won two titles on the day, but piled up points with several finishes among the top eight overall. Five athletes provisionally qualified for the upcoming NCAA Championships at the meet, and another improved his qualifying mark in a successful day for head coach Ethan Barron's Jumbos.

The lone individual Tufts champion was freshman Andrew Longley (Short Hills, NJ), whose hand-held time of 55.5 seconds in the 400 meter hurdles beat Williams College's Joseph Buck by a hair. Longley was also a part of the other Jumbo win in the 4x400 relay. Sophomore James Bradley (Atkinson, NH), senior Dustin Virgilio (Pittsfield, MA), junior Nathan Scott (East Hartford, CT) and Longley finished in 3 minutes, 22.1 seconds (hand held) to edge a Coast Guard foursome for the title.

Senior tri-captain Fred Jones (Northfield, MA) was second at the meet and surpassed the NCAA provisional qualifying mark in athe long jump with a distance of 23 feet, 4 1/2 inches. That's currently 17th nationally. Junior Dan Marcy (Middletown, NY) also cleared the NCAA provisional mark in the tiple jump at 46' 5 1/2" for third place.

Three Tufts athletes scored more than the required 6,000 points in the decathlon to provisionally qualify for Nationals. Junior Derek Engelking (Westborough, MA) was second at the meet with 6,137 points, following by classmate Skip Pagel (Mystic, CT) in third with 6,087 points and freshman Jared Engelking (Westborough, MA) in fifth with 6,051 points.

In the 3,000 meter steeplechase, junior Dave Sorensen (Dover, MA) improved his provisional qualifying time to 9:14.30, 11th best in the nation.

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