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Stivers second in 400 to lead Saints at NYSCTC Championships

Posted 2/26/17

Harrison Stivers finished second in the 400-meter run to lead the St. Lawrence University men's track and field team on the second and final day of the New York State Collegiate Track Conference …

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Stivers second in 400 to lead Saints at NYSCTC Championships

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Harrison Stivers finished second in the 400-meter run to lead the St. Lawrence University men's track and field team on the second and final day of the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Indoor Championships on Saturday at Newell Field House in Canton.

Stivers finished the race in 50.14 seconds, two-tenths of a second behind Rochester's Brant Crouse, who held off a late surge by Stivers for the win.

Stivers also contributed to the Saints' third-place 4x400 relay, teaming with Travis Hamre, Elijah Wickland Shearer and Daniel Viscardi to finish in 3:25.53.

Karim Creary posted two fifth-place finishes for the Saints, finishing the 60 in 7.27 and the 200 in 22.90. Benjamin Fishbein added a fifth-place finish with his first sub-nine-minute 3,000, covering the distance in 8:51.80.

Wickland Shearer won his heat of the 500 in 1:08.29, a 1.31-second PR, to finish sixth overall, and Robert Mackenzie also had a big PR, finishing the 1,000 in 2:37.05 to place seventh. Mackenzie, Evan Garvey, Ronald Kipkoech and Dadley Ogetii teamed up for a sixth-place finish in the 4x800.

Cole Burbage added a seventh-place finish in the high jump, and Nathaniel Stowe gutted out an eighth-place finish in the 60 hurdles after injuring himself while clearing a hurdle early in the race.

Perhaps the most electric performance of the day, however, belonged to Rensselaer's Benjamin Fazio, who won the mile with a a meet and facility record time of 4:10.24, running the last 400 meters in a blazing 58.64.

Fazio helped lead Rensselaer to the team title, as the Engineers totaled 196.5 points on the weekend. Ithaca was second with 146, RIT was third with 122.5, Utica was fourth with 99, and St. Lawrence finished fifth in the 13-team championship meet with 54 points.

The Saints will head to Ithaca next weekend for the ECAC Championships.