Villanova men go slowest to fastest to win men’s 4 x 800 in 7:16.58

by LetsRun.com
April 26, 2014

The Villanova men went slowest to fastest to grab the men’s 4 x 800 title at the 2014 Penn Relays today in 7:16.58- 1:51.80 for Josh Lampron, 1:49.45 for Dusty Solis, 1:48.77 for Jordan Williamsz, and 1:46.58 for Samuel Ellison.

Williamsz’s third leg was key as he ended up breaking things open and giving Ellison a comfortable lead. Defending champs Penn State got a nice solid anchor leg from Brannon Kidder (1:46.96) but there was no way he was going to make up more than 2 seconds when Eillison was running so well.

This one wasn't ever in doubt on the last leg for Samuel Ellison This one wasn’t ever in doubt on the last leg for Samuel Ellison

Penn state, who was without Robbie Creese and Cas Loxsom from last year’s winning team, only got a 1:53.35 on the opening leg which proved to be fatal for them. Za’Von Watkins ran a strong 1:49.97 to get them back into it on leg two but they just had too much work to do on the anchor.

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Georgetown was the only other team to break 7:20.00 as they were third in 7:19.97.

RESULTS

PL SCHOOL/AFFILIATION MARK ATHLETES ID
1 Villanova 7:16.58 Josh Lampron (1:51.80), Dusty Solis (1:49.45), Jordan Williamsz (1:48.77), Samuel Ellison (1:46.58) AB
2 Penn State 7:18.99 Wade Endress (1:53.35), Za’Von Watkins (1:48.97), Ryan Brennan (1:49.73), Brannon Kidder (1:46.96) AA
3 Georgetown 7:19.27 Ryan Manahan (1:51.42), Billy Ledder (1:50.68), Amos Bartelsmeyer (1:48.59), Ahmed Bile (1:48.60) AE
4 Wake Forest 7:20.49 Simon Holden (1:51.36), Thomas Bojanowski (1:50.50), Kyle Eager (1:49.78), Kyle Graves (1:48.87) AG
5 Stanford 7:24.99 Scott Buttinger (1:53.14), Justin Brinkley (1:51.57), Marco Bertolotti (1:50.89), Luke Lefebure (1:49.40) AD
6 Georgia Tech 7:25.44 Jeremy Greenwald (1:52.13), Zack Fanelty (1:54.70), Shawn Roberts (1:48.74), Brandon Lasater (1:49.88) AC
7 Columbia 7:25.90 Denzel Woode (1:53.84), Harry McFann (1:51.04), Rob Napolitano (1:51.04), Connor Claflin (1:49.99) AF
8 Monmouth 7:27.16 Andrew Langille (1:51.86), Domenick D’Agostino (1:54.80), Alex Leight (1:52.12), Dylan Capwell (1:48.41) AN
9 Texas A&M 7:27.84 Gaines Kinsey (1:53.57), Josh Hernandez (1:51.82), Cameron Cardwell (1:52.68), Hector Hernandez (1:49.78) AJ
10 Brown 7:27.90 Tyler Benster (1:53.25), Matt Bevil (1:52.81), Colin Savage (1:51.80), Henry Tufnell (1:50.05) AH
11 Princeton 7:36.48 William Paulson (1:53.16), Luke Brahm (1:56.67), Michael Williams (1:54.52), Bradley Paternostro (1:52.14) AI
12 Salisbury 7:37.20 George Martinez (1:56.02), Ian Wood (1:53.79), Eric Wood (1:55.24), Thomas Burke (1:52.17) CA
13 Charlotte 7:37.86 Carl Walton Jr. (1:55.65), Michael Tamayo (1:53.85), Getisso Dentamo (1:55.02), Nick Rotz (1:53.36) BK
14 South Carolina 7:38.84 Drew Ricci (1:55.32), Nigel Redic (1:55.68), Kevin Keating (1:54.66), Alex Sullivan (1:53.20) BO
15 Wagner 7:39.44 Michael Baio (1:57.49), Dan Zaccariello (1:52.75), Darius Moulton (1:52.77), James Naglieri (1:56.45) BV
16 Indiana Tech 7:39.88 Matt Adair (1:55.42), Devon Marrow (1:53.77), Drew Mueller (1:57.89), John Hester (1:52.81) BZ
17 Cornell 7:41.73 Hong Cho (1:55.08), Will Weinlandt (1:51.06), Eric Bice (1:54.38), John Schilkowsky (2:01.23) AM
18 Harvard 7:41.98 Connor Reck (1:55.83), Ryan Romain (1:54.68), Malik Epps (1:56.14), Billy Looney (1:55.35) BN
19 Rutgers 7:42.04 Chris DeFabio (1:57.29), Karon Purcell (1:55.28), Steve Burkholder (1:55.22), Curtis Richburg (1:54.27) BM
20 Colo. Springs 7:42.95 Carson Aberle (1:54.42), Ryder Tam (1:58.42), Kyle McCloskey (1:53.43), Chris Ullom (1:56.69) BQ
21 Fordham 7:43.34 Lester Taylor (1:56.31), Jonathan Annelli (1:56.93), Daniel Green (1:53.75), Devin Rocks (1:56.37) BW
22 La Salle 7:46.65 Kevin Day (1:57.44), Kevin Grosso (1:59.58), Chris Trimble (1:58.32), Chris Sanders (1:51.32) BR
23 Rider 7:50.31 Matt Sampson (1:58.16), Darien Edwards (1:54.73), Tom McLaughlin (1:57.28), Derek Lake (2:00.15) BS
24 Pittsburgh 7:53.34 Charles Ross (1:55.76), Cullen Davis (1:57.38), Tyler Castelli (1:57.51), AJ Chaborek (2:02.70) BP

 

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