ITHACA N.Y. – Cornell men's track and field showed out at the Upstate Challenge hosted in Barton Hall on Saturday. The Big Red set a school record, won ten events and set two facility records.
Damian Hackett and Derek Amicon each set a facility record for Barton Hall in the 1000m and mile. Hackett led the field through each lap of the 1000m to place first with a personal-best time of 2:20.42 and now has the fastest time in the Cornell history books for the 1000m. Amicon also set a personal-best time in the mile race of 4:01.81 to grab the record and land in eighth in the Cornell history book for the mile.
The Big Red took eight of the nine top spots in the 1000m with Pierre Attiogbe (2:21.52) and Finn Boyle (2:27.24) behind Hackett. Attiogbe's time also lands him in second behind Hackett on that same list.
The men also took the top seven spots in the mile with Peyton Shute (4:14.55) and Rithikh Prakash (4:15.74) behind Amicon.
Fabien De Silva (48.43), Michael Mazero (48.60) and Seamus Finn (49.44) swept the top three spots in the 400m while Panashe Nhenga (21.98), Jeremy Henderson (22.17) and Michael Mazero (22.27) were at the top of the 200m.
Ryder King won the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.00 and Domenic Barresi took the 60m crown in a time of 6.79.
In the field events, Peter Northrup won the shot put with a career-best mark of 16.97m followed by Noah Harman (16.09m) and Nicholas Frattina (15.89) with a career-best mark. Josh Green (14.15m) and Kameron Coleman (13.77m) were the top two in the triple jump. Ryan Brynjolfson won the high jump with a career-best mark of 2.09.
For the relays, the Cornell team consisting of Jack Daly, Charles Wall-Davis, Henderson and Ryder King ran the 4x400 in a time of 3:22.05 to take first place.
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