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Navy to Host American and Maryland on Saturday
March 23, 2007 ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Navy men's track & field team will host its first home outdoor meet of the year on Saturday when it welcomes American and Maryland to Ingram Field in Annapolis. The action is slated to get underway with the hammer throw at Hospital Point at 10:30 p.m., followed by the field events at 11:15 a.m. and the track events at 12 noon. This Saturday's home meet will be the first of three for the Midshipmen this year. Navy will remain home next Saturday to take on Penn, Princeton and Rutgers in a quad-meet before Army comes to the Yard on Saturday, April 14, for the annual Star Meet. The Midshipmen hosted American and Maryland, along with Maine, during the first of their two home outdoor meets during the 2006 season. Navy won the meet with a team score of 259 points, followed by Maine's 154 points, Maryland's 91 points and American's 65 points. Navy enters this weekend's action following its first-place performance at the Point Loma Invitational in San Diego last Saturday. The Midshipmen won 10 of the 18 events to score 141 points, while host Point Loma Nazarene came in second with 133 points and Baker rounded out the field with 38 points. Navy spent the entire week prior to the meet during spring break in California to prepare and adjust for the outdoor season. The Midshipmen went 1-2 in all four of the throwing events to round up 48 of its 141 first-place points last weekend. Highlighting Navy's first-place showing was junior thrower Bo Lawson's (Fredon, N.J.) NCAA regional-qualifying mark in the javelin toss. Lawson uncorked a career-best throw of 202'3" (61.64 meters) to win the event and top his previous career long by nearly two feet. Claiming first-place honors and qualifying for the IC4A Championship in two throwing events for the Midshipmen was junior Darryl Hunter (Des Moines, Iowa). Hunter won the shot put with a mark of 53'11" (16.43 meters) to open his day, then came back to out-distance the field with a throw of 156'7" (47.72 meters) in the discus. One week after earning All-America status at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championship in the 800-meter run, Navy junior Paul Harris (Woodbury, Minn.) earned Patriot League Track Athlete-of-the-Week honors for his first-place performance last weekend in the 800-meter run. Harris won the race by nearly nine full seconds with a time of 1:51.94. Freshman Matthew Hanley (Rapid City, S.D.) performed well during his first-collegiate outdoor meet last weekend. He won the 110-meter high hurdles with a 15.42-second clocking and helped on the first-place 4x100-meter relay team that crossed the finish line in 44.55 seconds. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 10:30 a.m. Hammer Throw (Hospital Point) 11:15 a.m. Pole Vault Long Jump 11:30 a.m. Javelin Shot Put High Jump (follows javelin) Discus (follows shot put) 12:00 p.m. 3,000-meter Steeplechase 12:10 p.m. 4x100-meter Relay 12:20 p.m. 1,500-meter Run 12:30 p.m. 110-meter High Hurdles 12:40 p.m. 400-meter Dash 12:50 p.m. 100-meter Dash 1:00 p.m. 800-meter Run 1:10 p.m. 400-meter Intermediate Hurdles 1:20 p.m. 200-meter Dash 1:30 p.m. 5,000-meter Run 1:50 p.m. 4x400-meter Relay |
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