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INDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
ECAC Championships
At Northampton, MA
Friday-Saturday, March 5-6, 2010
Meet
Results
NORTHAMPTON -- Senior quad-captain Jared Engelking
(Westborough, MA) became the third straight Tufts athlete
to win the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) pentathlon
when he did it on Friday night at the 2010 ECAC Men's Indoor Track
& Field Championships at Smith College. Engelking, who scored
3,529 points, follows Skip Pagel in 2009 and Nate Scott in 2008 as
the Jumbos who have three-peated in the ECAC pentathlon.
Engelking's score improved his NCAA provisional qualifying mark
by 16 points. He's currently ranked 14th. Engelking won the
55-meter hurdles portion of the ECAC pentathlon with a time of 7.76
seconds to score 893 points. He added 753 points to his total with
a time of 2:51.22 in the 1,000 meter run.
Freshman Michael Blair (Wellesley, MA) was the
only other Jumbo to score at the ECAC's. He tied for sixth in the
high jump with 6'2 3/4" (1.9m) clearance. His 2.5 points scored
helped Tufts to a 12.5 total that gave them 24th place at the meet.
Other members of the team competed at the IC4A Championships on
Saturday.
The Jumbos will now await word on whether their NCAA provisional
qualifiers are invited to the national meet, which will be held
next Friday and Saturday (Mar. 12-13) at DePauw University in
Greencastle, Indiana. Besides the pentathlon, Engelking is also
provisionally qualified in the 55-meter hurdles. Senior
Jesse Faller (Burlington, MA) is in good position
for the 5,000 meters, and the distance medley relay ran an
automatic qualifying time of 9:59.97 (converted from 9:56.97) at
the IC4A Championships hosted Boston University today. That
foursome is sophomore Ben Crastnopol (Doylestown,
PA), Faller, senior quad-captain Billy Hale (Menlo
Park, CA), and senior Matt Tirrell (Burlington,
MA).
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