A Quick Look
The weather finally cooperated, and the SUNY Oneonta men's track & field athletes took full advantage during the last two days with many personal best performances at the Cortland Classic.
 
The Inside Story
Leading the list of top performers on the track was junior Chris Ganley (Pine Bush/Pine Bush) who recorded PRs in the 100 and 200-meter dashes.  He earned an AARTFC qualifying time in the 100 as well as part of the 4x100-meter relay with sophomores Richard Mangogna (Kings Park/Kings Park), Alec Weiss (Selden/Newfield) and Eric Nieves (Thornwood/Westlake).  Ganley also posted a personal best performance in the long jump.
 
Nieves ran an AARTFC qualifying time in the 100 with a personal best time while also recording a PR in the 200.
 
Mangogna posted personal best marks in four events during his first decathlon competition of the season.  His final score of 4,834 points was a personal best score as well as putting him in the No. 5 spot all time in the event for the program.
 
The throwers had another dig week in all the events starting with the hammer where five athletes had their career best performances.  Leading the way was senior Norberto Cervantes (Williamson/Williamson) who was just shy of a personal best mark while moving up nationally in the event.  Joining Cervantes with PRs in the event were classmates Jason Briscoe (Delmar/Bethlehem Central) and D'Shaun Ricketts (Mount Vernon/Mount Vernon), sophomore James Tumia (Rochester/Greece Arcadia) and freshman Marco Altieri (Staten Island/Staten Island).
 
Altieri was joined by classmates Aidan Kelly (Farmingdale/Farmingdale) and Clifford Biehl (Babylon/Babylon) in posting personal best marks in the javelin.
 
Sophomore Tobias Gaynor (Morristown, NJ/Morristown) posted an AARTFC qualifying time in the 10K and classmates John Balk, Jr. (Suffern/Suffern) and Shane Marchese (Washingtonville/Washingtonville) recorded SUNYAC qualifying times in the event.
 
Sophomore Clayton doubled up in the 800- and 1,500-meter events and posted personal best times in both events.  Classmate Luke Jarski (Massapequa/Massapequa) also doubled up posting personal best times in both the 200 and 400.
 
What's Next
Oneonta is two weeks out from the SUNYAC championships and will compete next weekend at the Capital District Classic hosted by RPI.