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Men Record 16 Top 10 Finishes During Alvernia PLEX Shootout

Sophomores Dominic DeRafelo and Shane Houghton race at the Moravian Indoor Meet held at Lehigh University's Rauch Field House.
Sophomores Dominic DeRafelo and Shane Houghton race at the Moravian Indoor Meet held at Lehigh University's Rauch Field House.

READING, Pa. --- The Moravian College men's indoor track & field team posted 16 top 10 finishes in the meet including a pair of runner-up showings at the non-scoring Alvernia University PLEX Shootout Saturday.

Sophomore Max Schuman was second in the pole vault at a height of 4.10 meters (13-5.25) while freshman Sherwin Stewart was the runner-up in the triple jump with a distance of 12.83 meters (42-1.25).

Senior Ryan Harper finished third in the weight throw with a toss of 15.48 meters (50-9.5), and he also took tenth in the shot put with a mark of 12.45 meters (40-10.25). Junior Shane Mastro took seventh in the weight throw at 14.11 meters (46-3.5) while junior Derek Scott was ninth in the event at 13.26 meters (43-6). Sophomore Taylor Porter McPherson rounded out the field results with an eighth place in the high jump, clearing 1.71 meters (5-7.25) in his first time competing in the event in college.

Stewart and Porter McPherson combined with senior Evan Lutz and junior Sean McFarland to finish sixth in the 4x200-meter relay with a time of 1:35.12. Moravian also had a pair of teams run in the 4x400-meter relay with the quartet of senior Alex Tursi, junior Peter Gingrich, sophomore Dominic DeRafelo and freshman Darlyn Fermin finish in fourth at 3:34.04, and the group of senior Justin Beasley-Turner, sophomore Brad Clemson and freshmen Bryce Feddeman and Elias Aviles place seventh in a time of 3:41.88.

Gingrich finished fourth in the mile run with a time of PR time of 4:31.09 while Fermin was fourth in the 800-meter run in 2:00.21 with DeRafelo following in fifth in a PR time of 2:00.67. DeRafelo was also fourth in the 5,000-meter run in 16:06.58 and followed by freshman Liam Duffy in ninth in a time of 16:20.56 and sophomore Michael Lerch at tenth in a PR of 16:33.66.

Moravian is scheduled to return to action on Friday, February 14 when the squad head to the Ocean Breeze Complex in Staten Island, New York for the Fasttrack National Invitational.