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

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All-New England Championships
Friday-Saturday, May 8-9, 2009
At Amherst, MA

Meet Results

Jesse Faller's 1,500 meter time was the fastest ever at Tufts

AMHERST -- Senior quad-captain Skip Pagel (Mystic, CT) and junior Jesse Faller (Burlington, MA) of the Tufts men's outdoor track & field team accomplished NCAA qualifying marks and broke school records during the team's performance at the 2009 All-New England Championships at UMass on Friday and Saturday.

Pagel won the New England decathlon title for the second time of his career. The winner as an unknown freshman in 2006, he was second in 2007 and captured the title again this season with a school-record and NCAA automatic qualifying 6,871 points. That's more than 200 points better than his own Jumbo mark of 6,656 points from the 2007 NCAA meet. Pagel won the long jump, shot put, discus throw and javelin events during the '09 decathlon and scored 789 points with his 50.57 time in the 400 meters.

Faller broke the 21-year old Tufts outdoor 1,500 meters record with his time of 3:51.08. That was about two seconds faster than Mark Herlihy's 3:53.04 in 1988. Faller was second at the meet and missed the NCAA automatic qualifying mark by just 0.48 of a second. He was well within the 3:55 provisional mark.

Pagel and Faller scored all of Tufts' 18 points at the meet, which was good for a 16th place tie.

Junior Jared Engelking (Westborough, MA) improved his NCAA mark in the 110 hurdles to 14.73 seconds. He ran the time in the preliminaries and did not compete in the final.

Tufts goes to the ECAC Championships next Thursday and Friday prior to the NCAA Championships.

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