GENEVA, N.Y. – Sophomore Ryan Pericozzi (Lancaster) set conference and school records in the pole vault and senior Joe Keleher (Newfane) repeated as league champion in the 55-meter hurdles during Cortland's competition at the SUNYAC Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships. The meet was held at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Cortland finished second out of eight schools to snap a three-year streak of conference titles. Geneseo won with 157 points, followed by Cortland (95.17), Buffalo State (92), Oneonta (75), Brockport (72.83), Plattsburgh (56), Fredonia (51) and Oswego (25).

Pericozzi cleared 4.95 meters (16' 2.75”) to win the pole vault. The previous indoor SUNYAC and school record was 4.90 meters, which Pericozzi shared with former teammate Jake Zanetti. The old meet record was 4.88 meters by Zanetti in 2008. Zanetti's performance improves on his NCAA provisional status. Keleher won the 55-meter hurdles with an ECAC-qualifying time of 7.81 seconds.

Senior Justin Wager (Guilderland) provisionally qualified for nationals with his second-place time of 4:12.66 in the mile. Freshman Dash Ellis (Tomkins Cove/North Rockland) also reached provisional national qualifying status with his distance of 14.34 meters (47' 0.75”) in the triple jump. Ellis actually tied Geneseo's Wenley Louis for the top distance, but Louis was awarded first place based on his second-best jump (14.24 meters) compared to Ellis' second-best effort (14.15 meters). Junior Will Razzano (Manorville/Riverhead) also provisionally qualified for NCAA's in the triple jump with his third-place 14.18 meters (46' 6.25”).

Five Cortland pole vaulters finished in the top eight. In addition to Pericozzi, senior Schuyler Field (Queensbury) finished third with an ECAC-qualifying 4.50 meters (14' 9”). Freshman Dan Fugazot (Highland Mills/Monroe-Woodbury) and sophomore Ken Bucaro (Tully) each cleared 4.35 meters (14' 3.25”), with Fugazot placing fifth and Bucaro seventh. Keleher tied for eighth place with a height of 4.20 meters (13' 9.25”).

Freshman Eric Banks (Westbury) finished third in the 400 meters in 50.36 seconds and senior Eric Stermer (Chenango Forks) was third in the 3,000-meter run in 8:40.30, both ECAC qualifying times. Also hitting ECAC marks were senior Durrell Reed (Syracuse/Corcoran) in the 55-meter hurdles with his prelim time of 7.96 seconds (he finished fourth in the finals in 8.01 seconds) and senior Darnell Owens (Fallsburg) in the 55-meter dash with his prelim time of 6.61 seconds (he was sixth in the finals in 6.62 seconds).

The distance medley relay team of sophomore Sean Twomey (Cornwall), freshman Joe Panetta (Merrick/Sanford H. Calhoun), freshman Nick Darcangelo (Canastota) and sophomore Kyle Martin (Fulton/G. Ray Bodley) finished fifth in 10:56.23, while freshman Shawn Wilson (Seneca Falls/Mynderse Academy) was sixth in the weight throw at 14.10 meters (46' 3.25”).

Junior Andrew Brusso (Elmira/Southside) finished seventh in the mile (4:24.61), senior Kyle O'Brien (Monroe/Monroe-Woodbury) was seventh in the 3,000 meters (8:56.53) and freshman Justin Torres (Rome/Rome Free Academy) placed seventh in the weight throw (13.61 meters – 44' 8”). The combination of junior Zak Goodstein (Brooklyn/Midwood), freshman Nate Francisco (Geneva/Marcus Whitman), freshman Matt Leon (Sloatsburg/Suffern) and freshman Mitch Galvin (Oswego) finished seventh in the 4x400-meter relay (3:33.87).

Other scorers for the Red Dragons included junior Sa-id Shakir (Syracuse/Bishop Grimes) in the 55-meter dash (eighth, 6.73, 6.68 prelims), junior Nick Wilson (Seneca Falls/Mynderse Academy) in the 55-meter hurdles (eighth, 8.17), freshman Zac Karpinski (Syracuse/West Genesee) in the 200-meter dash (eighth, 23.17), freshman Josh Daves (Huntington) in the long jump (eighth, 6.59 meters – 21' 7.5”), freshman Mike Ofosu (Latham/Shaker) in the triple jump (eighth, 13.44 meters – 44' 1.25”) and sophomore Steve Manos (Elmira/Southside) in the high jump (tied for eighth, 1.82 meters – 5' 11.5”).

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