ITHACA, N.Y.- The Cortland women's indoor track team competed against a number of different Division III schools this weekend at the Ithaca Bomber Invitational. The meet was primarily held on Saturday, with the pentathlon taking place Sunday.
 
Senior Harley Buczkowski (Holland Patent) hit an All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference (AARTFC) mark after placing first out of 54 in the weight throw with a distance of 15.66m (51' 4.5").
 
In the triple jump, Maya Campbell (Valley Stream/Valley Stream South) finished second out 30 with a distance of 11.62 meters (38' 1.5") while Kelly Gardner (Lake Ronkonkoma/Sachem North) finished sixth at 11.00 meters (36' 1.25"). Both of these distances hit AARTFC marks. Gardner also placed seventh out of 39 in the long jump with a distance of 5.24 meters (17' 2.25").
 
Taylor Hunter (Buffalo/Tapestry Charter) and Steffany Batista (Spring Valley/Ramapo) also hit AARTFC marks in the 200-meter dash. Hunter finished third out of 68 competitors (26.48) followed by Batista in fourth (26.63). Hunter and Batista also placed second in the 4x200-meter relay alongside Bridget Bennett (Castleton/Maple Hill) and Jesse Correale (Staten Island/Notre Dame Academy) with a time of 1:47.58. The combination of Bennett, Correale, Shannon Imbornoni (Bethpage/Our Lady of Mercy Academy) and Batista finished fourth in the 4x400-meter relay (4:11.25).
 
Imbornoni finished second out of 14 runners in the 500 meters with a time of 1:21.36. Sydney Smith (Niskayuna) placed third out of 37 in the 800 meters (2:23.83), missing the AARTFC mark by less than a second. Eliza Nichols (Smithtown/Smithtown West) posted Cortland's best time in the mile finishing 11th out of 48 runners (5:24.93).
 
In addition to her performance in the triple jump, Campbell was ninth in the 200-meter dash (27.08) and 10th of 29 in the 60-meter hurdles (9.92). In the high jump, Nicole Van Pelt (Montgomery/Valley Central) finished in fifth place at 1.53 meters (5' 0.25") and Rachel Whitcomb (Tioga) was sixth at 1.48 meters (4' 10.25").
 
In the pentathlon, Molly Baker (Newark Valley) hit an AARTFC qualifying mark with 2,852 points. Baker's best event was the high jump with 689 points for 1.56 meters (5' 1.5"), and she scored 637 points in the 60-meter hurdles (10.41). She finished eighth out of 21 participants.
 
Cortland will compete next Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, at the Boston University Valentine Invitational and on Feb. 10 at the Cornell Sunday Invitational.

(Sports information intern John Nocco assisted with this recap)

Complete Results

Coach's Corner - Comments from Head Coach Steve Patrick

First off, I'd like to point out that SUNY Cortland athletics had a great day on Saturday, February 2nd!  Every other winter team that was in action won their game/meet!  While ours wasn't scored, we certainly had a number of great efforts!
 
Freshman Mitchell Makowski, sophomore David Bernstein and senior Harley Buczkowski all had season's best performances in the weight throw.  It's nice to see the hard work they have been putting in paying off, but we still know that there is a lot more there!
 
The 200 was another really strong event for us, as Peyton Lalone shot up the record books at Cortland, becoming the third man to break 22 seconds indoors!  That also resulted in a nice move for him up the national rankings.  Juniors Liam Joyce and Connor Lewis had really nice runs in that race as well, as did freshmen Taylor Hunter and Steffany Batista.
 
Junior Kelly Gardner had a great day in the horizontal jumps, with a season's best in the long jump and a lifetime best in the triple jump.  Nicole Van Pelt and Rachel Whitcomb both got season's best in the high jump as well – as did Isaiah Brooks during the high jump portion of the heptathlon.  Our third-ranked vaulter, Isaac Brightbill, had a huge season's best to qualify for the conference championships, which is obviously exciting for us.
 
Our mid-distance running was really strong today as well, with a lot of great depth shown in the men's and women's  500, 800, and mile – we had some folks that finished well up in the overall field, including the overall win by sophomore Richard Samuels in the 500, the runner-up finish of sophomore Shannon Imbornoni in the 500, and the 3rd-place finishes of junior Ryan Konotopskyj and freshman Sydney Smith in the men's and women's 800s.
 
We're looking forward to a good week of training as well as our meets at Boston University and Cornell this weekend.