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Gator Men Dominate at Case
February 2, 2008
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CLEVELAND – Led by eight first-place finishes, three each from juniors Matt Yurky (Homer City, Pa./Homer-Center) and Josh Brannan (Latrobe, Pa./Greater Latrobe), the Allegheny College Gators dominated at the Case Western Reserve Invitational on Friday evening.
The Gators took second of the three teams in the competition despite traveling with half of the team. Host Case Western took first overall with 152 points while Allegheny and Walsh took second and third with 125 and 123 points, respectively.
For the second straight meet, Yurky has set a new personal best in the long jump, this time winning the competition with a leap of 20-3.50, before taking top honors in the other horizontal jump, the triple jump, with a leap of 40-7. He rounded out his meet with a top finish in the 55-meter hurdles, breaking the tape in a time of 8.30 seconds.
Brannan’s three victories came via two individual events and a relay, as he took first in both sprint events of the evening, the 55- (6.79) and the 200-meter dashes (23.76), before teaming up with Alex Gorski (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon), Craig Ball (Pittsburgh, Pa./Penn Hills) and Garret Piispanen (Fruita, Colo./Fruita Monument) to take first in a time of 3:37.11.
Ball, Piispanen and Jamie Drab (North East, Pa./North East) dominated the field in the 800-meter run, with the trio going 1-3 running times of 2:03.24, 2:04.32 and 2:06.03, respectively. The fourth place finisher was over four seconds behind the trio in a time of 2:10.66.
Tony Dipre (Twinsburg, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit), who set the school mile record in the first meet of the season at Kent State, took top honors in the mile run, running the event in a time of 4:24.70, nearly 15 seconds ahead of the second place finisher and 30 ahead of the third.
Gorski followed up his lead on the relay by taking first in the open 400-meter run, finishing the two-lap race in 54.49, a season-best for the sophomore. Freshman Zac Ross (Meadville, Pa./Meadville Area) took second in the 3,000-meter run in a career-best time of 8:52.84, while Chas Moore-Seymore (Buffalo, N.Y./St. Francis) took third in the 55-meter dash, finishing the sprint in a time of 6.84 seconds.
The members of the Gator track & field team that did not compete at Case Western will travel to Denison University on Saturday, February 2 to compete at the NCAC Relay meet.