2008 Woodie Awards
Despite small squads, track has strong performances at NE Div. IIIs
Patrick Bagley
Issue date: 2/23/07 Section: Sports
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Just seven points away from second place, Davis scored a personal record of 2,910 points in the multi-event competition; Davis also set lifetime bests in the shot put and long jump. After competing for over six hours, Davis stated that the event "was exhausting but definitely made for a great day!"
Teammate Cassie Knight '09 also set two personal records en route to a seventh place finish in the 3,000 meter (10:27.74) and the one mile anchor leg of the distance medley relay (5:13). Racing six places behind King, Allison Cogbill '07 set a personal record of 18:39.62 while earning eighth place in the 5,000.
In lieu of her usual long-distance races, Captain and All-American Karen Prisby '07 ran the one mile with teammate Liz Petit '08. Together, the two runners raced to a 5:11 mile, with Prisby (sixth place) finishing a scant .7 seconds ahead of Petit (seventh). Heather MacDonald '10 earned fifth place in the half mile with a time of 2:20.52.
Senior captains Melissa Cianciolo and Anna Bruno represented the Mules in the field events. Cianciolo threw the weight 46 feet and 1.5 inches for eighth place. Bruno captured tenth place in the pole vault with a jump of 9 and one half feet.
As a team the Lady-Mules placed seventh out of the 21 teams that competed at the University of Southern Maine's facility. "Coming in at seventh was a great accomplishment, especially after placing last at States," Davis said, "we beat both Bates and USM, which proves that though we may lack depth, Colby women's track and field has the ability to compete with the best athletes in the region."
Fielding no more than ten athletes, the men managed to score a total of 13 points for a 13th place finish out of the 24 schools that competed. In a captivating sprint to the finish of the one mile, London secured third place with a time of 4:18.93.
Ironically, the mad-dash finish was not the only memorable aspect of the four minute long race. "The time keepers screwed up the clock that runners use to pace themselves," Vassallo said, "halfway through the race, Ian and everyone, despite the fact that they were going through at a very slow (4:24) pace, thought they were going through at a 4:08 pace, so they all slowed down. Still a pretty solid race for Ian, and I can't wait to see him dominate everyone this spring."
In his race, the 3,000 meter, Vassallo was also out sprinted, missing a first place finish by a mere two seconds. "I chilled way too much, ran too slow at the beginning, and turned the 3,000 into a race where guys could sit and kick. And that's what they did," Vassallo said, before adding with a smile, "You gotta give credit to the guys who beat me, especially my boy T.O. from Bowdoin." (T.O. being Thompson Ogilvie, Vassallo's newest rival after having seemingly dispatched Nate Krah, another runner from Brunswick.)
This weekend the men and women will compete against the best runners from all divisions in New England. The men have put all of their chips in for the distance medley relay, which, according to Vassallo "has the fire power to be one of the best DMR teams in the history of our track program."
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