STATEN ISLAND, New York – The Marist men's indoor track team opened its season on Saturday, Dec. 5 at the Metro Holiday Season Opener. Sophomore Joseph Miller, senior Mark Vuono, sophomore Sami Ellougani and senior Richard Willi had the best result on the afternoon in the 4x800 meter relay with a third place finish.
Graduate student Mark Valentino also highlighted the afternoon with a 14 second improvement for a personal-best time of 8:44.25 in the 3,000-meter run, while Ellougani and Willi also set personal bests in the mile run with overall times of 4:31.86 and 4:38.11 respectively.
The Red Foxes now have a month break from meets before returning to action on January 15th, for the STAC Invitational.
Metro Holiday Season Opener
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex, Staten Island
Men's results and splits
200-meter dash
24. Tim Johnson 23.26
26. Hakim Cunningham 23.37
42. Ethan Rodrigues 24.19
400-meter dash
53. Josh Hindle 53.71
62. Josh Siegel 55.77
800-meter run
10. Nestor Taylor 1:59.07
28, 58 (30), 1:28 (30), 1:59.07 (31.07)
15. Anthony Colasanto 2:00.95
28, 58 (30), 1:28 (30), 2:00.95 (32.95)
16. Nate Lungarini 2:01.03
29, 58 (29), 1:28 (30), 2:01.03 (33.03)
18. Tanner Senius 2:01.58
29, 59 (30), 1:30 (31), 2:01.58 (31.58)
20. Brian Henderson 2:01.69
30, 60 (30), 1:30 (30), 2:01.69 (31.69)
21. Drew Burns 2:01.99
30, 60 (30), 1:31 (31), 2:01.99 (30.99)
Mile run
13. Mark Vuono 4:30.22
31, 64 (33), 1:37 (33), 2:11 (34), 2:47 (36), 3:21 (34), 3:56 (35), 4:30.22 (34.22)
16. Sami Ellougani 4:31.86
34, 67 (33), 1:39 (32), 2:14 (35), 2:50 (36), 3:23 (33), 3:58 (35), 4:31.86 (33.86)
26. Ricky Willi 4:38.11
33, 68 (35), 1:44 (36), 2:18 (36), 2:55 (37), 3:32 (37), 4:05 (37), 4:38.11 (33.11)
3,000-meter run
8. Mark Valentino 8:44.25
33.4, 69.4 (36.0), 1:44.3 (35.9), 2:18.7 (34.4), 2:53.4 (34.7)
3:28.0 (34.6), 4:03.3 (35.3), 4:38.3 (35.0), 5:13.5 (35.2), 5:48.6 (35.1)
6:24.3 (35.7), 6:59.2 (34.9), 7:34.4 (35.2), 8:10.0 (35.6), 8:44.25 (34.25)
Kilometer splits: 2:53.4, 5:48.6 (2:55.2), 8:44.25 (2:55.65)
1,600-meter relay
17. Nestor Taylor (:53.4), Tim Johnson (:51.5), Tanner Senius (:53.1), Nate Lungarini (:52.5); 3:30.77
23. Hakim Cunningham (:54.0), Ethan Rodrigues (:52.9), Drew Burns (:53.7), Anthony Colasanto (:54.0) 3:35.02
3,200-meter relay
3. Marist (Joe Miller, Mark Vuono, Sami Ellougani, Ricky Willi) 8:09.90
Joe Miller: 1:59.7. 29, 57 (29), 1:27 (30), 1:59.7 (32.7)
Mark Vuono: 2:00.7. 28, 58 (30), 1:28 (30), 2:00.7 (32.7)
Sami Ellougani: 2:03.9. 29, 60 (31), 1:31 (31), 2:03.9 (32.9)
Ricky Willi: 2:05.2. 29, 61 (32), 1:33 (32), 2:05.2 (32.2)
