Jeffrey Ainsley set a conference and school record in the 60m hurdles.
Posted: Mar 01, 2015
HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College men's indoor track and field team had seven winners during day two of the Centennial Conference Championships to finish in second place behind the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon at the Alumni Field House.
After winning his heat, junior Jeffrey Ainsley set a new conference record (8.33) and broke his own personal record in the 60m hurdles final. The junior has now won back-to-back indoor 60m hurdles crowns.
Senior Gibby Graves picked up another individual title for Haverford as he won the high jump (2.03m), which also broke a personal best and school record. It's Graves' fourth conference title, but first on the indoor track. Ainsley also tallied a point for the Fords, placing in a tie for the seventh (1.78m). The Haverford duo also was in the top four in the long jump with Graves in the third position and Ainsley in fourth.
The Fords took the top three positions in the mile. Junior Charlie Marquardt (4.17.73) was first, freshman Henry Woods was second (4:19.08) and sophomore Michael Brier (4:19.48) was third. It's Marquardt's second straight conference title in the event and 10th time that a Haverford runner had the fastest mile time in 11 years. Brier also broke his personal record.
Marquardt also won the 800m, running a 1:55.74. The junior has won four indoor track conference titles in his career. Junior Ryan Gooding finished eighth to score a point (1:59.30) for the Fords.
Senior David Roza was victorious in the 3000m race (8:44.48), giving him his first All-Centennial Conference first team accolade. Junior Nicholas Gandolfo-Lucia placed seventh (8:51.47) while senior John Curry recorded a personal best time (8:53.38) to finish ninth. Senior Joel Christian was 10th followed by sophomore Jimmy Gorman (11th) and senior Jeffrey Duncan (12th).
The 4x200 relay of Ainsley, junior Jonathan Yellets, senior Sam Callon and sophomore Alex Frost took home the title for the Fords with a time of 1:32.18. The group became the sixth Haverford 4x200 relay team to win the event, the last being in 2013. Haverford's 4x800 team won its second consecutive conference title. The team of Woods, sophomore Julian Schneider, Brier and Marquardt (7:59.78) were ahead of the field by over two seconds.
Yellets placed third in the 400m, just five-tenths of a second shy of Johns Hopkins' Andrew Carey. The junior was also third in the 200m event (23.36) and Callon scored a top-ten finish with a 23.61.
The distance medley team of Schneider, freshman Daniel Sax, senior Chris Gardner and senior Soren Rasmussen was just three-tenths of a second (10:29.69) behind the winner Franklin and Marshall.
Freshman Josiah Legaspi had his best throw in the shot put (11.45m) to finish 19th. Senior Alex Smith (11.93m) placed as the highest Ford in the field in 15th.
Hopkins (205 points) and Haverford (157 points) were the top two teams in the conference for the third straight season. Franklin and Marshall was third (83), Dickinson (73) was fourth while Ursinus finished fifth (50). Gettysburg (47), Muhlenberg (37), Swarthmore (25) and McDaniel (9) rounded out the field.
Several of Haverford's athletes will look to continue their season at the NCAA Division III 2015 Indoor Championship on Mar. 13-14, hosted by Roanoke College in Winston-Salem, N.C.