Men’s Track Places Second at UAA Indoor Championships

Results

Mar. 4 - (CHICAGO, Ill.) - The Carnegie Mellon men’s indoor track and field team competed at the 2006 University Athletic Association (UAA) Indoor Championships Saturday, March 4, held at the University of Chicago. The Tartans finished second scoring 97 points behind only Washington University, who claimed the UAA Men’s Indoor Championship scoring 136 points. The Tartans claimed four UAA Championships in the events, three individual and one relay.

In the field events senior Tom Matta (Erie, Pa./Fort LeBoeuf) claimed an individual UAA title in the weight throw with a distance of 16.67 meters, marking the second straight year to have won the event. Matta also had a team scoring finish in the shot put after throwing a distance of 13.47 meters, good enough for third place. Junior Eric Tang (Los Angeles, Calif./Dunn) kept it going in the filed events finishing first in the long jump with a jump of 6.90 meters. Tang’s distance of 13.29 meters in the triple jump placed him third.

The Tartans other individual title came in the 55 meter hurdles when junior Nick Bannister (Sugar Land, TX/Stephen F. Austin) paced the field with a time of 7.92. Teammate sophomore Kiley Williams (Washington, D.C./Randolph-Macon) finished less than two hundredths of a second behind Bannister with a time of 8.07 to place fourth.

Carnegie Mellon’s 4x400 relay was the last first place finish for the Tartans, as the team of Williams, juniors Russel Verbofsky (Pittsburgh, PA /Fox Chapel) and Mark Davis (Loveland, Ohio/Loveland), along with freshman Carlton Reeves (Attleboro, Mass./Moses Brown) crossed the finish line with a time of 3:27.75.

Other notable finishes for the Tartans were four third place finishes and a fourth place. Placing third was Williams in the 400 meters run (52.09), Verbofsky in the 200 meters (23.07), junior Davey Quinn (Glen Ellyn, Ill./St. Francis Prep) in the 800 meters (1:56.34), and senior Dana Irrer (Okemos, Mich./Okemos) in the 3,000 meters (8:46.09). Freshman Keith Torluemke (Redondo Beach, Calif./Academy of Math & Science) finished fourth with a time of 1:56.80 behind Quinn in the 800 meter race.