Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Release

Men Finish Third, Women Place Fourth at NE Ohio Invite

The UB track and field teams saw Mid-American Conference rivals Akron and Kent State as well as non-league foes Youngstown State and Ashland Saturday as the Northeast Ohio Invitational. The UB men placed third with 92 points while the women finished fourth with 64 points in the five-team meets. Host Akron swept the meets as the men scored 219 points while the Zips women finished with 217 points.

Relay Team Breaks Record to Post Victory

Bryan Weinstein

UB was led by a record-setting men’s 4x100-meter relay victory at Saturday’s meet. The foursome of Bryan Weinstein (Getzville, NY/Williamsville North), Reggie Rucker (Rochester, NY/Edison Tech), James Graber (West Seneca, NY/Bishop Timon-St. Jude) and Roy Richards (Rochester, NY/Edison Tech) won the race in 41.06, cutting .45 seconds off the 2002 record.

McRae, Giza, Kohout Post Individual Wins

Dan Giza

Freshman sprinter Rob McRae (Rexford, NY/Shenendehowa) won the men’s 400-meters in 47.92, the fastest by a Bull in the event this season. McRae won the race by 1.7 seconds over Youngstown State’s Scott Streiner and qualified McRae for the USATF Junior Championships this summer. Dan Giza (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster) won the men’s 3,000-meter run in 8:41.83. Giza won the race by more than eight seconds over Akron’s Ricky Weisheimer.

In the women’s competition, Kate Kohout (Clarence, NY/Clarence)

Kate Kohout

was the lone UB woman to win an event as she took the 800-meter run in 2:12.56. Kohout finished a half-second ahead of Akron runners Emily Freudenrich (2:13.06) and Rachel Zubricky (2:13.09) to win the race.

Women Score Second-Place Finishes in Field Events

Dana Ventrone (Pittsburgh, PA/Chartiers Valley), Vanessa Roelofson (Alma, Ontario/Norwell District SS) and Caitlin Godin (Rochester, NY/Greece Arcadia) finished second in field events for the UB women. Ventrone took second in the long jump at 16-4.50 (4.99m) while Roelofson finished second in the javelin throw with a toss of 163-11 (49.97m). Godin tied for second in the high jump with four other athletes at 5-3 (1.60m). Ventrone also posted the best triple jump for a UB woman this season with her third-place finish at 33-8.75 (10.28m).

Godios Establishes Personal Best in Javelin, Richards Sets Season Marks in Two Events

P.J. Godios (Hamburg, NY/St. Francis) established a new personal best and a season best with his 179-5 (54.68m) javelin toss to finish third. The throw improved his best mark by more than nine feet from the previous top mark set two weeks before at the Miami Invite. This season, the sophomore has improved his javelin distance by more than 30 feet from the end of last season. Richards earned a second-place finish in the triple jump with a season-best leap of 45-6.50 (13.88m). He posted a season-best in the 100-meters in 10.80, finishing third overall. Other third place finishes for the UB men included Brian Heim (East Amherst, NY/Williamsville East) in the 400-meter hurdles (53.46), Rucker in the long jump (21-5.25, 6.53m) and Loic Sebuharara (Vestal, NY/Vestal) in the triple jump (44-9, 13.64m). The men's 4x400-meter relay team of McRae, Heim, Babaseyi Olaleye (Lagos, Nigeria/Lagos) and Weinstein posted a second-place finish in 3:17.77.

Bulls Split Schedule With Pair of Weekend Meets

As the season winds down, several Bulls will be participating in this weekend's Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field, the meet is one of the most famous track and field events in the world. Other UB athletes will compete at the Gina Relays at Hillsdale College. At last season’s Gina competition, the UB women posted four school records.