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Six Records Fall, But Monmouth Men Remain Atop Team Standings For Fourth Straight Year at NEC Outdoor Meet

5/6/2012

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Emmitsburg, MD - No team was able to knock the Hawks off their perch at the 2012 Northeast Conference Outdoor Men’s Track & Field Championships.

Monmouth compounded the large lead it built on Day 1 and secured its fourth consecutive Northeast Conference men’s crown.  The Hawks tallied 183 team points with LIU Brooklyn’s 138 standing as second best.

Thirty of the Hawks’ points came from Vincent Elardo who added the NEC Outdoor Most Valuable Performer award to his resume, three months after claiming the honor indoors.  Elardo completed the throwing trifecta. Entering the meet as the No. 1 seed in the shot put, hammer throw, and discus, Elardo won them all and garnered the NEC Most Outstanding Field Performer accolade for his efforts.

Monmouth also struck gold in a fourth throwing event as javelin thrower Vincent DuVernois made his top seed hold up.

Six meet records fell over the two-day championship meet.  Although he walked away with a ton of hardware Elardo did not manage to break a meet record, but his teammate Ford Palmer did.

Palmer completed a mid-distance double that delivered 18 team points.  He finished second in the 800m run after winning the 1500m run in a record 3:49.39.

Palmer joined Elardo during the post-meet awards presentation as Monmouth’s mid-distance extraordinaire picked up the NEC Outdoor Most Outstanding Track Performer honor.

The recipient of the Most Outstanding Rookie award was the same as it was for the indoor season.  Giving his hometown crowd a reason to get rowdy, Mount St. Mary’s freshman Coby Rosemier-Gussio was voted the meet’s top rookie after a runner-up finish in the 200m dash and a fourth-place showing in the 100m.

Central Connecticut, which compiled 132 points to finish third in the team standings, was the beneficiary of an “Iron Man” distance double from Sam Alexander.  One day after winning the 10,000m run, the veteran harrier came back and claimed first place in the 5K on Sunday.

CCSU junior sprinter Aaron Radden was unable to repeat the double gold he won at the 2011 meet, but still managed a gold in the 200m and a silver in the 100m.

He already held the conference indoor record for the 60m hurdles, and now Sacred Heart’s Bertony Jean-Louis stands atop the NEC’s all-time 110m hurdles list.  With junior teammate Jeremy Rosado being his closest competition, Jean-Louis flew by the rest of the field and crossed the line in 14.03s.  The winning time signaled the end of a 16-year old record (14.18) that was set by former St. Francis (NY) Terrier Gary Gooden.

LIU Brooklyn senior Amire Solomon went out a winner, bounding over 51 feet in the triple jump to set the NEC outdoor record.