Cornell Results | NYSCTC Multi Day One Results

ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College men's track & field team competed Sunday at the Cornell Big Red Invitational and the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Decathlon Championship at RIT. The Bombers had nine top-10 finishes at Cornell.
 
After day one of the NYSCTC decathlon championship, sophomore Ndue Palushi ranks 10th out of 15 competitors after five events with 2,707 points. Freshman Tyler Denn-Thiele is in 14th with 2,065 points.
 
Ithaca's top finish at Cornell came in the 4x100-meter relay with a second-place showing of 44.52. Sophomore Jeff Hejna, junior Kyle MacKinnon, sophomore Zane Scott and freshman Nick DiNapoli teamed together on the relay. Ithaca's 4x400 team of junior Anthony Altobelli, sophomore Larkin Bohanan, senior John Luis Damaskos and freshman Chris Gutierrez raced to a sixth-place finish of 3:36.43.
 
Junior Mason Mann clocked a fourth-place finish of 1:55.77 in the 800 run. Rounding out the top-10 track performances were freshman Roosevelt Lee with a 10th-place finish of 52.79 in the 400 and junior Steve Derderian with a time of 16:27.08 to place 10th in the 5,000.
 
Sophomore De'Marquis Graves placed eighth in the triple with a mark of 13.42 meters and 10th in the long with a leap of 6.47 meters.
 
Freshman Gabe Shakour had a heave of 45.32 meters in the javelin to place eighth and senior Steven Episcopo cleared 4.05 meters in the pole vault to finish ninth.
 
Ithaca will conclude NYSCTC decathlon competition Monday afternoon.