Philadelphia, PA: The Ramapo College men's indoor track & field team competed in day one of the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championship at the Ott Center. The Roadrunners sit in sixth place with 14 points after day one. Day two of the championships have been rescheduled to Friday, Feb. 27th due to the impending snow storm for the area.
Two relay teams for the Roadrunners earned a podium finish. The Distance Medley Relay clocked in with a season best time of 10:26.27 for a third-place finish. Their time is also 26th in this season in all of NCAA DIII. The team was made up of
Sebastian Herrera,
Matt Suero,
Jorge Gomez Garza and
Ryan Pena. The 4x200-meter relay team also grabbed a third-place finish with a season best time of 1:27.64. The team was made up of
Logan Natale, Wonder Dilone,
Samuel Thomas and Pena.
In the 5k,
Jose Espinal and
Brandon Meneses finished back-to-back with an eight-place and a ninth-place finish respectively. Espinal posted a personal best time of 16:16.75 while Meneses posted a season best time of 16:17.00. In the prelims of the 60m dash,
Wander Dilone finished 10th in 7.01 seconds. In the field events,
Kevin Ortiz finished ninth overall in the long jump with a personal best mark of 6.62m while
Sebastiano Secades grabbed a season best mark of 6.11m (19th place).
Braden Holm posted a mark in the shot put of 13.58m to finish eighth overall. In the heptathlon,
Anthony Sileo finished third in the 60m dash (7.30 seconds), fifth in both the high jump (1.68m) and long jump (6.00m) and seventh in the shot put (8.96m). Zelasco finished first in the long jump (6.66m), fourth in the shot put (10.38m), sixth in the 60m dash (7.47 seconds) while he recorded a mark of no height in the high jump. Sileo and Zelasco are currently in sixth and eighth place respectively and will wrap up the heptathlon on day two of the meet.
The Roadrunners will return to action on Friday, Feb. 27th for day two of the NJAC Indoor Track & Field Championships at 3:00pm at the Ott Center.
