By Akshay Kripalani, Staff writer
The Susquehanna men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at the Bison Invitational at Bucknell on April 14 and 15 and both turned in good results.
On the men’s side of the competition, even though the entire team did well as a whole, one runner came up on top and even broke a record of his own. That runner was senior Mathew Gass.
Gass, who raced in the 400-meter dash, finished in ninth place with a personal best time of 48.8 seconds. This was not the only to 20 finish that Gass had, he also came in 19th place in the 200-meter it a time of 22.55 seconds.
Senior Armond Owens came in 31st place in the 100-meter race with a time of 11.37 seconds.
Freshman Robert Marks came in fifth place in the jav- elin with a throw of 200’11”.
After the meet on Saturday, Marks won the Landmark Field Athlete of the Week.
Marks currently remains ninth in the nation for the Javelin throw, and is just the ninth athlete in Susquehanna history to clear the 200 foot barrier.
Junior Joshua Brown also had a good outing. He placed 13th in the javelin throw with a throw of 183’7.”
On the women’s side of the meet everyone did well. Senior Amy Kaschak finished in 32nd place in the 3-kilometer steeplechase while senior Jasmine Mitchell and freshman Samantha Reed finished 42nd place and 50th place respectively in the 100-meter race.
Mitchell ran a time of 13 seconds while Reed finished in 13.14 seconds.
Even though the track side of the meet finished well it was the field side which finsihed the strongest.
Senior Gabrielle Alguire finished in second place in a competitive field in the javelin throw. Alguire threw 151’1” to take second place behind the the first place finisher from Division I. She was the top Di- vision III finisher.
The throw was actually only her second best of the season as well, as the PR for this season came in the season-opening Jim Taylor Invitational.
Alguire was also named the Landmark Field Athlete of the Week for the second time in three weeks thanks to her strong performance.
The River Hawks will get back on the track on April 22 when they travel to Misericordia for their next meet.
Susquehanna will race again on April 28 at the Penn Relays and April 29 at Shippensburg, before competing at the Landmark Conference Championships on May 6 and May 7 at Moravian.
