Syracuse University
BIG EAST Indoor Championship
Buice Headlines Day One at BIG EAST
2/21/2009 10:30:13 PM | Track and Field
Men's Results | Women's Results
BRONX, N.Y. – The Syracuse men's and women's track & field team completed the first day of the BIG EAST Indoor Championship with five first-place finishes, two second-place showings and one third-place performance at the Armory Track.
The Orange men are currently in seventh place out of 10 squads while the women rest at 13th out of 14 teams.
Junior Jon Buice positioned himself as the favorite in the men's heptathlon, which concludes tomorrow, by notching top marks in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.09 and the high jump with a spring of 1.99m. Buice missed the IC4A mark by one-hundredth of a meter for a second-place showing of 7.01m in the long jump competition.
In the women's pentathlon, sophomore Kelsey Ruebor claimed top-billing in the shot put with a heave of 12.29m while junior Uhunoma Osazuwa recorded a third-place finish in the high jump with an ECAC-qualifying mark of 1.73m.
Sophomore Flings Owusu-Agyapong qualified for the women's 60-meter dash finals with a second-place, NCAA-Provisional time of 7.43. Junior Maegan Krifchin landed a spot in the 1,000-meter finals with an ECAC clip of 2:52.15. Krifchin's mark was eighth best in the preliminary heat.
Senior Michael LeBlanc dusted the qualifying field in the men's 60-meter dash with a first-place, IC4A-time of 6.77. Fourth-year hurdler Ramon Sosa will run in Sunday's 60-meter hurdles final after boasting a second-place, IC4A time of 7.94.
Junior Brad Miller, Syracuse record holder in the mile, finished in fourth place to qualify for the final heat in Sunday's mile race to the tune of 4:11.49. Sophomore Erin Schirm will also run in tomorrow final after busting out a time of 4:13.34 for 11th place.
In the men's 5,000-meter race, junior Curtis Bixler tallied an IC4A time of 14:29.06 for seventh place to slot him into Sunday's final.
Senior thrower jumper Bernard Bush picked up sixth place in the men's long jump with an IC4A mark of 7.46 while sophomore hurler Kwaku Boah registered an eighth-place lob of 17.15m to put him in the IC4A meet in two weeks.
Day two will conclude the 2009 BIG EAST Indoor Championship. Tomorrow's first event is the men's 60-meter hurdles as part of the heptathlon competition and will go off at 8:00 a.m.
