STENUF FINISHES 3RD AT ECAC MEET
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ONEONTA, N.Y. (May 18, 2007) -- Nazareth junior Nick Stenuf (East Syracuse-Minoa HS/East Syracuse, NY) provisionally qualified for a trip to next week's NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships Friday with a third-place finish in the 800-meter run at the ECAC Championships at SUNY Oneonta.

Stenuf posted a time of 1:53.02 to finish third behind Hamilton's Peter Kosgei (1:52.04) and Frostburg State's Brian Leiter (1:52.24). Stenuf won the event last year in 1:50.83 and went on to place third in the 800 and earn All-America honors at the NCAA meet.

Stenuf also has provisionally qualified in the 1,500-meter run after setting a school record and winning that event in 3:53.53 at the NYSCTC Championships at Brockport May 5.

Next week's NCAA meet will be held at Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

In other events, sophomore Brendan Wheeler (Penn Yan Academy/Penn Yan, NY) finished fourth in the 400-meter dash (:48.93) and junior Aaron Sirtoli was fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:39.01). Nazareth also set a record in the 4 x 100-meter relay (:44.07) with the team of Jon Qazi (Avon HS/Avon, NY), Matt Case (C.W. Bkaer HS/Baldwinsville, NY), Justin Banks (Christian Brothers Academy/Syracuse, NY) and Chris McBride (Penfield HS/Penfield, NY). Junior Brendan Epstein (Moravia HS/Moravia, NY) finished seventh in the 5,000-meter run (15:34.64).

In the women's meet, sophomore Lauren Glaser (pictured, Huntington HS/Huntington, NY) broke her own school record with a third-place finish in the 800-meter run (2:18.63). Freshman Jenna Porter (Alexander HS/Batavia, NY) competed in three events and set records in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. She finished eighth in the 100 in :13.26 seconds, but went slightly faster in the prelims (:13.10). She was 16th in the 200 (:27.08) and 13th in the 400-meter dash (:60.07).

Junior Jessica Brown (Oxford Academy/Oxford, NY) also broke her own record in the 1,500-meter run (4:50.79).