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Greyhounds Earn 13 Top 10s at Alvernia PLEX Shootout

Senior Dominic DeRafelo races during the 2022 Moravian Indoor Meet at Lehigh University's Rauch Fieldhouse in January. Photo by Cosmic Fox Media / Matthew Levine '11
Senior Dominic DeRafelo races during the 2022 Moravian Indoor Meet at Lehigh University's Rauch Fieldhouse in January. Photo by Cosmic Fox Media / Matthew Levine '11

READING, Pa. --- The Moravian University men's indoor track & field team earned 13 top 10 finishes at the non-scoring Alvernia University PLEX Shootout Saturday. 

Top 10 Finishes

  • Freshman Joe Tivade was tenth in the 60-meter hurdle preliminaries in a time of 10.00 seconds
  • Freshman Trevor Gray finished second in the 60-meter dash in a time of 7.18 seconds while freshman Owen Sabastro was sixth in the finals in 7.37 seconds. Gray had the fastest qualifying time in the 60-meter dash at 7.23 seconds while Sabastro ran a PR time of 7.30 seconds in the prelims to head to the finals in sixth place. Both Gray and Sabastro won their preliminary heats
  • Senior Shane Houghton finished as the runner-up in the mile with a PR time of 4:24.32 while senior Dominic DeRafelo was fifth in a PR time of 4:27.34. Freshman Owen Nahf was sixth in the race in 4:28.13 while graduate student Peter Gingrich took eighth in a PR time of 4:28.83
  • Moravian's 4x200-meter relay squad of Gray, sophomores Marco Calantoni, Jared Santos and Matt Shea finished fifth in 1:36.82
  • DeRafelo also posted a PR in the 800-meter run where he was the runner-up in a time of 2:00.42, and he was followed by Gingrich in sixth place at 2:03.53 and freshman Jake Farrell in ninth with a time of 2:04.42
  • Sophomore Josh Mangini ran a PR of 9:04.73 in the 3,000-meter run to finish fifth while freshman Nathan Hajel was sixth with a PR of 9:06.26 

PR Distances/Times

  • Santos posted a PR time of 7.33 seconds in the 60-meter dash while Shea ran a PR time of 7.63 seconds
  • Junior Liam Duffy recorded a PR time of 4:33.44 in the mile run while sophomore Casey Frank added a PR time of 4:37.40
  • Freshman Jason Gartner posted a PR time of 56.93 seconds in the 400-meter dash while Tivade had a PR of 57.53 seconds
  • Freshman Wyatt Poniktera recorded a PR time of 2:13.89 in the 800-meter run while sophomore Paul Petre added a PR of 2:17.20
  • Freshman Matt Pavone posted a PR distance of 12.55 meters (41-2.25) in the 35-pound weight throw while junior Adam Gildea had a PR toss of 11.20 meters (36-9)
  • Junior Christian Jancsarics ran a PR time of 9:56.18 in the 3,000-meter race

Up Next for the Greyhounds

  • Friday, February 11 at Fasttrack Invitational at Ocean Breeze, Staten Island, N.Y., 12:00 p.m.
  • Friday, February 18 at Penn State Tune-Up, 4:00 p.m.