STAFF : Orange men, women place 3rd in Cornell Upstate Challenge
The Syracuse men’s and women’s track teams finished in third place at the Cornell Upstate Challenge in Ithaca this weekend.
The Orange competed against Cornell, Buffalo, Cortland, Binghamton and Ithaca. Syracuse graduate student Jarret Eaton broke his own school record in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.61 seconds. He qualified for the Big East, IC4A and NCAA championships.
Graduate student Fling Owusu-Agyapong fell just short of breaking her own school record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.40 seconds. But that time set a record for races at Cornell’s Barton Hall and qualified her for the Eastern College Athletic Conference championships.
Amadou Gueye finished second to Eaton in the 60-meter hurdles, earning a spot in the conference championship. SaDe Lewis qualified for the ECAC championships in the 60-meter hurdles.
Among other championship qualifiers were Molly Malone, who ran the 1,000-meter run in 2:53.89; Erin Cawley, who finished first in the 3,000-meter run in 9:58.66; Jaquan Holland and Jihaad Howard in the 60-meter dash with times of 6.84 and 6.96 seconds, respectively; Ieva Staponkute in the triple jump with 12.16 meters; and Frank Taylor in the long jump at 6.98 meters.
Four Syracuse runners placed in the top 10 in the women’s mile run, including a second-place finish from Beth Wright and a third-place finish from Maura Linde. Reed Kamyszek, Robert Molke and Andrew Bennison took the top three spots in the men’s mile run, all finishing within one second of one another.
—Compiled by Jacob Pramuk, contributing writer, jspramuk@syr.edu
