Hartford, Conn. - Sophomore
Ace McAlister (Great Barrington, Mass.) won the 5,000-meter run in a photo finish by .03 seconds over Amherst's Cosmo Brossy with a time of 15:03.82, as the Trinity College Bantams placed ninth in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Jessee/Miller Field this afternoon. Trinity totaled 22 points to edge Connecticut College by two points, while Middlebury College won the team title with 172 points.
Trinity junior
Luke Mayer (Morristown, N.J.) finished just shy of All-NESCAC honors, taking fourth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.12. Juniors
William Duggan (Glastonbury, Conn.) and
Jack Boucher (Newton Center, Mass.) were sixth and seventh, respectively, in the javelin throw at 167'03" and 166'11" for the Bantams. In relays, Trinity's 4x100-meter foursome, including senior co-captain
Daniel Hughes (Hagley, England), classmate
Thomas Gitchell (Glen Ellyn, Ill.), and juniors Joseph DiBacco (Reading, Mass.) and
Ben Feola (Woodbridge, Conn.), finished seventh with a time of 43.75. Feola added a ninth-place time of 50.10 in the 400-meter dash to give the Bantams five individual top-ten finishes in the meet
