College Report

February 26, 2008 - There was plenty of action this week.
 
Locally, the Duggan brothers (Monsignor Farrell) competed at the Big East championships at the Armory in Manhattan. Brian, nursing a sore shoulder, finished second with a leap of 1509. He has done 16-7.5, but has had an inflammation in this right shoulder for the better part of two months.
 
Brother Kyle, competing for the University of Connecticut, tied for 10th with a 14-9 clearance. He's already done 15-9 this winter.
 
"I had a bad day," he said. 
 
Mom Gina Duggan sat in the same spot near the vault runaway, wearing a shirt- red on the right with the Rutgers logo, and blue on the left for U-Conn. That way, she showed allegiance to both.
 
Dad stays out of the political war, and says, "I stay neutral."
 
Freshman Matt Jimenez of Georgetown (Farrell) was ninth in the shot (48-0.75). He has an indoor best of 48-4, and is 10th on the all-time indoor list for Georgetown.
 
At the America East meet in Boston,  Corrine Stepney (St. Peter's), a freshman at Albany, was the last qualifier for the 400 in 58.97. She improved in the final, taking the final scoring place, finishing 8th in 58.54.
 
Her former teammate, Nandi Dozier-Lewis, a freshman at Binghamton, failed to qualify for the horizontal jump finals. She long jumped 15-3, and triple jumped 33-10.75.
 
No athlete has made a bigger improvement in college than Kerry Salzano, now a senior at Stony Brook. She had closed out her high school career at MSIT with a severe auto accident, but said, "I want to run so badly."
 
Everything has clicked in her senior year.
 
During cross country, Stony Brook, an unlikely candidate for the NCAA championship meet, qualified, and Kerry got to run against the nation's best in Terre Haute.
 
This weekend, she was fifth in the 5,000 (17:37.37, and then was seventh in the 3,000, scoring a big personal best in 10:01.02.
 
At the Patriot League championships at Bucknell, John Olsen (Curtis) was second in the 3,000, clocking a fast 8:19.02, which translates to a sub- 9:00-two mile.
 
Christine Wittich (Notre Dame) ran on two scoring relays for Lafayette. She led off the fifth-place 4x800 team which ran 9:21.98, and then ran leadoff on the second-place distance medley relay team, which ran 12:26.12.
 
In non-championship action at Princeton, Jeff Carbonella (Farrell) of the host school won the 800-meter run in 1:54.98.