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

PAGEL, JONES ARE RUNNER-UP'S AS JUMBOS FINISH NINTH IN ALL OF NEW ENGLAND

COLLEGE MEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
All-New England Outdoor Championship Meet
At Hanover, NH
Thursday-Saturday, May 10-12, 2007

Championship Results

HANOVER, N.H. -- The Tufts University men's outdoor track & field team scored 30 points at the 2007 New England Intercollegiate Championships hosted by Dartmouth College. That was good enough for ninth place overall and second place among New England Division III teams.

Sophomore Fielding "Skip" Pagel (Mystic, CT) and senior tri-captain Fred Jones (Northfield, MA) led the Jumbos with second-place finishes at the meet. Pagel scored a personal-best 6,448 points in the Decathlon, a total that currently ranks ninth on the NCAA performance list. It's likely to earn him a trip to the NCAA Championships at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh May 24-26. Jones was second in the long jump with a leap of 23-feet, 3 1/4 inches at the New England meet.

Jones also produced a sixth-place finish in the triple jump at the meet, landing at 46' 3 1/2". Jumbo junior Dan Marcy (Middletown, NY), still rounding into form after an injury, was fourth in the triple jump with a 46' 4 3/4" mark. Tufts scored eight points in the event overall.

Freshman Ikenna Acholonu (Shoreline, WA) also scored for Tufts with a time of 15.19 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles for fifth place. Tufts also got two seventh-place points from the 4x100 meter relay of senior Mickey Ferri (Stamford, CT), freshman Colin Fitzgerald (Scarborough, NY), Jones and freshman Andrew Longley (Short Hills, NJ) with a time of 42.74 seconds.

With Pagel, Jones and Dave Sorensen (Dover, MA) in the 3,000-meter steeplechase likely to qualify for the NCAA meet, Tufts will get a "last chance" to qualify athletes this Saturday (May 19) at MIT.

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