Complete Results
CARLISLE, Pa. – The Gettysburg College track & field teams each finished fourth while competing in their first meet of the season – the Dickinson Indoor Invitational – Saturday afternoon at the Kline Center.
The men’s team finished with 41 points while the women totaled 78.5 points. Dickinson won the men’s meet with 167 points while Messiah College captured the women’s competition with 154 points.
Leading the way for the men’s team was sophomore
Greg Minnick (Williamsport, Md./Williamsport), who finished second in the high jump with Gettysburg’s best indoor mark (6-2) since Chris Russo jumped 6-2 3/4 in 2001. Also breaking the top-three was freshman
Greg Smith (Marietta, Ga./Walton), who took third in the triple jump (38-2).
Other Bullets who finished among the top-eight to earn team points were senior
Rob Dalto (Darien, Conn./Darien) in the pole vault (fourth, 13-0), senior
Alex Horning (Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown) in the 800-meter run (fifth, 2:08.37), freshman
Tom Senseney (Littlestown, Pa./Littlestown) in the 400-meter dash (sixth, 55.37) and the 200-meter dash (seventh, 25.10), freshman
Greg Scheiber (Northford, Conn./North Branford) in the 800-meter run (seventh, 2:25.31), and sophomore
Steven Decelian (Brooklyn, N.Y./Westminster School [Conn.]) in the 55-meter dash (6.91).
For the women’s team, freshman Joy Fry (Mt. Airy, Md./Linganore) had a big day in her collegiate debut. She produced the Bullets lone individual victory, as she placed first in the high jump (4-9 3/4). Fry was also third in the 55-meter hurdles and ran a leg on both the winning 800- and 1,600-meter relay teams. On the 4x2, she joined sophomore
Alex Van Tuyl (Smithtown, N.Y./Smithtown West), junior
Megan Murphy (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Mechanicsburg), and freshman
Amanda Koslo (Darien, Conn./Darien) while finishing in 1:53.81, and she teamed up with Murphy, senior
Meredith McEntee (Falls Church, Va./Edmund Burke), and Koslo in the 4x4 (4:27.78).
Van Tuyl was also second in the 55-meter dash (7.83), fourth in the 200-meter dash (29.16), and tied for fourth in the high jump (4-6). Murphy and Koslo each turned in a third-place showing, with Murphy clocking a 1:07.35 in the 400-meter dash and Koslo posting a 28.75 in the 200.
Also finishing among the top-eight for Gettysburg were McEntee, who was fourth in the mile (6:04.33) and freshman
Emily Heeren (Newton, Mass./Newton) who took fourth in the triple jump (32-1 1/2) and sixth in the shot put (29-8 1/4).
Gettysburg is off for the remainder of the semester and returns to action on Jan. 23, when it competes at the Susquehanna University Orange & Blue Classic.
