4x800m Relay Advances to Finals
PRINCETON, NJ - William and Mary men's track and field competed Saturday on the second day of the IC4A Outdoor Championships. The Tribe currently sits in fifth in the team standings with 25 points as Liberty and Rutgers share the lead with 36 points each. Points are awarded to the top-eight finishers in each event, who receive All-East honors. The prestigious meet, hosted by Princeton, attracts a large field of teams from across the Eastern U. S. and represents the last opportunity for athletes to set NCAA qualification timesIn today's action, the Tribe's 4x800m relay of sophomore Matt Warco (McMurray, PA), freshman David Groff (Centreville, VA), junior Matt Wolak (Richmond, VA) and junior Sean Anastasia-Murphy (Gloucester, MA) qualified out of prelims for Sunday's finals of the event. The quartet clocked a 7:31.68 to be seeded fourth in tomorrow's nine-team final, only sixth-tenths off the leading seed time. In today's 1,500m prelims, senior Bill Tarantino (Woodbridge, VA) clocked a sharp 3:51.86, just one tenth shy of a personal record he set last week, to claim 19th in the race.
The IC4A Championships conclude Sunday.
Team Rankings 1) Liberty University 36 1) Rutgers University 36 3) Manhattan College 32 4) University of Pittsburgh 26 5) College of William and Mary 25 6) U.S. Military Academy 21 7) Duke University 18 7) Iona College 18 9) Princeton University 16 10) Cornell University 14 11) Monmouth University 13 11) University of Pennsylvania 13 13) Yale University 11 14) University of Virginia 10 15) Brown University 8 16) Tufts University 7 16) U.S. Naval Academy 7 18) George Mason University 5 19) Duquesne University 4 19) University at Albany 4 19) Northeastern University 4 19) Morgan State University 4 19) Mount St. Mary\'s 4 19) North Carolina Wilmington 4 25) Lincoln University 3 25) Rider University 3 27) Georgetown University 2 28) Lafayette College 1 28) La Salle University 1