April 28, 2008

Complete Results

New Haven, Conn. - Stony Brook sophomore Alex Felce (Stroud, England) won the men's 1,500-meter in an IC4A qualifying time while fellow sophomore Stephanie Vos (Apalachin, N.Y.) broke a school record in the 400-meter hurdles Sunday at the Yale Invitational in New Haven. Overall, the Seawolves track and field team had 12 athletes place within the top-ten.

Felce's time of 3:51.27 in the 1,500-meter was more than a second faster than the second-place runner and qualifies him to run in the IC4A Championships at Princeton next month. Stony Brook had two other runners with impressive finishes in the 1,500-meter as sophomores Daire Bermingham (Portmarnock, Ireland) and Iain Whitfield (Stroud, England) finished third (3:53.12) and sixth (3:56.69) respectively.

Vos, who set the school record in the 400-meter hurdles last season, improved upon her own record by .04 seconds when she crossed in a time of 1:04.56, which was fast enough for second place.

The women's other top finishers were: sophomore Lisa Voltaire (Stockholm, Sweden) who took second in the 1,500-meter (4:40.19), freshman Carolina Cortes (Woodmere, N.Y.) who took third in the 1,500-meter (4:43.55), senior Elizabeth Carlson (Lincoln, R.I.) who crossed sixth in the 3,000-meter (10:34.30) and junior Fisayo Tunde (Selden, N.Y.) who took tenth in the 100-meter (13.17).

The men's team had two top-ten finishers in the 400-meter; senior Melvin Genao (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.) took fourth (50.46) and junior Merlon Pinnock (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) crossed 10th (51.50). In the field events, senior Robert Dantone (Dix Hills, N.Y.) placed seventh in the hammer throw (46.76) and senior Mubaarak Muhammad (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) finished fifth in the triple jump (13.63).

The Seawolves will be traveling to Maine this weekend to compete in the America East Championships, which begin Saturday at 10 a.m.