Results
PORTSMOUTH, R.I.—The Gordon Track & Field programs celebrated a pair of bronze finishes at the Commonwealth Coast Conference Invitational on Saturday. Junior
Corrine Previte (Danvers, Mass.) and sophomore
Damon Kilgore (Londonderry, N.H.) dominated the day for the Fighting Scots with multiple top finishes
Next up for the Fighting Scots is a trip to Springfield for the NCAA Division III New England Championships for those who qualified in their respective events. Gordon heads down to Springfield College next weekend.
Salve Regina took the women's title, while Roger Williams won on the men's side.
Women's Highlights
- Previte had her hands in many of Gordon's points on the afternoon, beginning the day with a first-place finish in the 200 with a time of 27.32 to earn the Scots seven points. One even later, the sprinter got narrowly edged by a second by Jacqueline Wyka from Roger Williams in the 400 meter. She was also a part of two third-place relay finishes in the 4x100 and 4x400.
- It was Madison St Julien (Wareham, Mass.) who actually put the Fighting Scots on the scoreboard first with fourth in the 100. The well-rounded Gordon athlete also earned points for her parts in the two relay places before adding top three finishes in both the long jump and triple jump. St. Julien just missed out on first in the long jump at by a fraction of a meter before putting up a best triple jump of 32-08.25.
- In distance events, Louisa Dodds (Hillsdale, N.Y.), Julia Drewicke (San Francisco, Calif.) and Sarah Warne (Andover, Mass.) all picked up points.
- Sinead Miller (Bremen, Maine) had her best finish in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 18.26, good enough for fourth place.
Men's Highlights
- Colin Ponzani (Avon, Conn.) got the Scots on the scoreboard with the third-best point eligible finish in the 800-meter race. Ponzani ran to the tune of 2:09.35 for fifth place overall.
- Kilgore began his big day in the 1,500-meter event with a four-second finish over Doug Sasso from Roger Williams. The distance runner garnered a time of 4:05.60 for five points. The mile didn't slow down the sophomore as he won the 3,000-meter race just half an hour later with 10 seconds to spare. Kilgore made it a clean sweep of the distance events as he and senior Wes Nelson (Charlton, Mass.) dominated the 5,000 with a 1-2 punch.
- Alex King (St. Croix Falls, Wisc.) won the pole vault going away, beating the next best finisher by over a meter. King blasted the Gordon record by over a foot, formerly held by Brett Haschig in 2010.
- Edison Thayer (Boxford, Mass.) rounded out the Gordon scoring with an impressive showing in the javelin. The junior beat the next best athlete by over five meters to finish off a good day for the Scots.