Amaan Siddeeq (left) and Salem State's Eddie Bynum III (right) battle in the 55-meter dash at the NCAA Div. III Championships. Siddeeq finished second behind Bynum with a career-best time of 6.26 seconds (photo courtesy of Ohio Northern Univ.)
ADA, OHIO - Three SUNY Cortland athletes earned All-America honors to lead the Red Dragons to a tie for eighth place at the 2008 NCAA Division III Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships. Senior
Amaan Siddeeq (Goshen) finished second in the 55-meter dash for the second straight year. Junior
Shamus Nally (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) and sophomore
Seth DuBois (Altamont/Guilderland) placed fifth and eighth, respectively, in the 5,000-meter run. The top eight finishers in each event are All-Americans.
Cortland finished tied with Thiel College and Loras College with 13 points apiece. The Red Dragons have placed in the top 10 nationally each of the last three years. They were fifth last winter and tied for 10th in 2006. Wisconsin-La Crosse won its seventh title in eight years and 14th overall with 43 points.
Siddeeq lost a heartbreaker to Salem State's Eddie Bynum III in the 55-meter dash for the second straight year. Bynum repeated as champion with a time of 6.25 seconds, just one hundredth of a second ahead of Siddeeq's career-best time of 6.26 seconds. Last year, Bynum won at 6.33 seconds to Siddeeq's 6.34 seconds.
Nally finished fifth in the 5,000 meters in 14:38.72, with DuBois earning the final All-America spot in the race with an eighth-place time of 14:50.58. William Kaul of Wisconsin-Oshkosh won the race in 14:23.43.
Cortland's other competitor on Saturday, sophomore
Justin Wager (Guilderland), placed 10th in the mile run with a time of 4:23.67.
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