Syracuse University
Penn Relays
Dupont Nets Second Place at Penn Relays
4/23/2009 9:25:01 PM | Track and Field
Men's Steeplechase Results | Women's High Jump Results | Women's Javelin Results | Women's Long Jump Results
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Syracuse distance runners and jumpers got off to a fine start at the first day of the 115th Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field.
Freshman Pat Dupont, one of two Orange members to represent the United States at the 2009 World Cross Country Championship in late March, posted a second-place IC4A mark of 9:07.59 in the men's steeplechase event. Dupont recorded his fastest outdoor time in the steeplechase in the City of Brotherly Love, but missed out on an NCAA Regional-qualifying mark by a mere .59 seconds.
In the women's field events, junior Uhunoma Osazuwa cleared the bar of 1.70m for an ECAC-eligible distance for third place while senior Melissa Romero tallied a fifth-place vault of 1.67m for fifth place.
Junior Lorraine Hill, who has notched two javelin toss titles already this season, landed in fourth place after her ECAC-qualifying heave of 42.49m in the javelin.
Osazuwa also participated in the long jump, finishing in 22nd place with a mark of 5.44m
The Orange will start things off with day two at the Penn Relays when seniors Michael LeBlanc and Antoine Clark and sophomores Jarret Eaton and Sham Lewis toe the line in the 4x100-meter relay.
