Men’s Indoor Track & Field Wins Centennial Conference Title
3/2/08 - Ian Ramsey-North was named the men's track Outstanding Performer.
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – The Haverford College men’s indoor track and field team won the Centennial Conference title at Ursinus College with 144.50 points on Sunday afternoon. Ian Ramsey-North was named the men’s track Outstanding Performer. This is Haverford’s ninth consecutive conference title and 14th in the last 15 years.
Gettysburg finished second with 112 points and Johns Hopkins was third with 108. Dickinson came in fourth (92), Ursinus fifth (79), Muhlenberg sixth (63), Franklin & Marshall seventh (39.50), McDaniel eighth (18) and Swarthmore ninth (6).
In the mile Ramsey-North finished first (4:19.88); followed by Elias Tousley (4:20.17; second) Paul Bisceglio (4:20.19; third) and Chris Southwick (4:26.63; seventh).
The Fords had six of the top eight finishers in the 3,000-meter run. Ramsey-North placed first with a time of 8:39.19. Donald Letts finished second in 8:39.58, Chris Southwick was fourth (8:42.71), Andrew Lanham placed fifth (8:42.87), James Jablin finished sixth (8:42.88) and Joe Carpenter came in eighth (8:46.31).
In the 5,000, Letts finished first at 15:07.02. Andrew (third) crossed the line at 15:09.10 and Jablin (fourth) came in at 15:10.98. Anders Hullenberg placed eighth at 15:32.60.
Carlos Coleman had two third-place finishes in the 200 (22.75) and the 400 (51.07).
Joe Awantang won the shot put with a throw of 49-9 ¼, more then two-and-a-half feet longer then the second place finisher. Phil Kim finished fifth in the pole vault jumping 12-00 while Andrew Wei placed eighth, 11-00.
In the relays, the Fords came in on top in the distance medley relay as they edged Johns Hopkins by six seconds. Tousley, Coleman, Sunil Adige and Ramsey-North finished at 10:22.27.
The 4x400 relay of Coleman, Bisceglio, Tousley and Adige finished second in 3:29.06 and the 4x800 relay of Lucas Fuentes, Ben Frisbee, Jason Oaks and Ramsey-North placed third in 8:04.89. The 4x200 relay team of Sam McCrimons, Phil Eiseman, Luke Henderson and Nick Vechik came in sixth (1:47.74).
Note: Friday night senior co-captain Donald Letts ran the 5,000-meters at NYU’s Fastrack Invitational. Letts went on to place fifth overall (second among Division III runners) in a time of 14:38.63. That time provisionally qualifies him for nationals and puts him at 13th in the country right now. Because the time was run on a banked track, 3.6 seconds will be added for ranking purposes, so his time on the national list will be recorded as: 14:42.23.