Bernard posted the third-longest long jump distance of the season today

Skyhawks place ninth among Division I programs at two-day event

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (January 11, 2020) – The Stonehill College men's track & field program returned to action after the holiday break at the two-day Beantown Challenge, hosted by Harvard University, at Gordon Indoor Track which concluded today. 

Highlights

• Freshman Cameron Bernard earned Stonehill's three points at the meet by placing sixth in the long jump with a season-best distance of 21-feet, 11.00-inches. It marks the third-longest leap in the Northeast-10 Conference this season.
• Freshman Michel-Ange Siaba rounded out the heptathlon in sixth place out of nine competitors with 4,038 points after holding the event lead after four events on Friday.
  • Siaba finished fifth in the 60-meter hurdles today in 9.20-seconds to earn 702 points.
  • He rounded out the event with a third place finish in the 1000-meter run in 2:52.04 to earn his highest point total of the heptathlon on Friday and Saturday at 744 points after coming up without points in the pole vault.
  • Brown University sophomore Jonathan Pelusi won the event with 4,810 points.
• Junior Kevin Wheelock finished 11^th out of 23 runners in the 3000-meter run in 9:00.04. Senior Jeff Pichie placed 13^th in 9:01.84, while sophomore Shane Braz took 16^th in 9:02.65.
• Senior Christopher Lanahan finished 18^th out of 30 competitors in the 1000-meter run in 2:35.34.

Other Results

• Junior Chris McCaffrey finished 19^th out of 24 entries in the one mile run in 4:34.32.
• Sophomore Anthony Magazzu placed 24^th out of 32 entries in the 500-meter dash in 1:08.23. Classmate Jack Bowers finished 29^th in 1:08.88.
• Freshman Jeremiah Kidd-Taylor placed 27^th out of 39 entries in the 200-meter dash in 23.28-seconds.

Up Next

Stonehill returns to action next Saturday, when it competes at the Sorlien Memorial Invitational, hosted by the University of Rhode Island.

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