College Report

April 3, 2008 - The big story of last week was Mother Nature, who reminded everyone that winter is not quite over. Cold, damp, and windy weather made for slow times and seemingly sub-par performances.

Some rose above the obstacles imposed by Mother Nature to turn in creditable performances.

Alysen Kuck of Washington and Lee competes on the Division III level, but she managed a pair of wins against D-I competition at the Liberty Invitational in Virginia. The former St. Joseph by-the-Sea star cleared 5-0.25 to take the high jump, and won the javelin with a 115-1 toss.

Penn's Jesse Carln (Sea) won the 800 at the Maryland Invitational (2:11.81), and ran second in the 400 (56.76). Kerry Salzano of Stony Brook (MSIT) was second in the 5,000 at the Southern Connecticut State Invitational (17:53.96), and Brian Carstensen of Rhode Island (Farrell) was second in the pole vault (15-7) at the same meet.

Sean McAuley of Lafayette (Farrell) was second in the hammer (152-7) at the Lafayette 5-way meet, and also threw the discus 144-7 for 7th.

Kim Scotto of Lehigh (MSIT) competed in the Invitational 800 at the Wintrhop (N.C.) Invitational, and was seventh in 2:23.70.

Jeff Brannigan of American University (Curtis) ran 4:01.94 for 1,500 meters, while Vito Cannavo of Harvard (Farrell) ran 4:01.63 at the Rice Invitational in Texas.

Matt Jimenez of Georgetown (Farrell) threw 44-6.25 at the Raleigh Relays, while Brian Duggan of Rutgers (Farrell), battling a painful shoulder injury, turned to the long jump, where he leaped 18'09.25 at the Monmouth Season Opener.

A number of other athletes competed at the Monmouth meet. Sean Lynch of St. Francis (St. Peter's) was fourth in the 800 (2:00.90), and ran the 1,500 in 4:21.46. Vin Gangemi, also of St. Francis (St. Peter's) ran 52.70 in the 400; Peter Liota, also St. Francis (Farrell) ran 2:03.65 for 800 and 24.64 for the 200. Corinna Steed of St. Francis (St. Peter's), ran 1:11.79 for the 400, while Billy Dowd of Monmouth (St. Peter's) ran 16:34.08 in the 5,000.