University of New Hampshire Athletics
Sunday, May 2
Lowell, Mass.
9 AM
University of New Hampshire
vs
America East Outdoor Championships
Photo by: Vincent Dejana
5/2/2021 7:00:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
LOWELL, Mass. – Grad student Zachary Astle (Newbury, N.H.) won the shot put title Sunday to highlight the University of New Hampshire men's track & field results in Day 2 of the America East Championships at UMass Lowell's Cushing Field Complex.
UNH placed fourth at the conference championship meet with a total of 96 points; the Wildcats recorded one win and two runner-up finishes both days. UAlbany captured first place with 140 points and was followed by UMass Lowell (115.5) and Stony Brook University (115).
New Hampshire was followed by Binghamton University (89), University of Maine (88), University of Vermont (74), UMBC (60.5), University of Hartford (42) and NJIT (31).
Astle earned a total of 21 points at the two-day meet with Sunday's shot put win and sixth place in the discus, as well as Saturday's runner-up finish in the hammer.
CLICK HERE for complete results.
Astle's mark of 55 feet, 0.6 inches on his first shot put would have stood as the winning distance, but he bested that with a mark of 55-0.75 in round 3 and that proved to be the winning throw.
110-METER HURDLES
Two Wildcats earned a total of 11 team points in the 110-meter hurdles. Senior Michael Monahan (Tewksbury, Mass.) finished second with a time of 15.04 seconds and freshman William Love (Newton, Mass.) crossed the finish line in 15.83 for sixth place. Monahan bested his Saturday qualifying time of 15.18.
DISCUS
A pair of 'Cats placed in the top eight in the discus to earn nine points. Freshman Joshua Hoffman (Litchfield, N.H.) recorded his top distance of 157-2 -- on the fourth of six attempts -- to earn third place and six team points. Astle finished sixth in the discus with a mark of 151-4, which he also recorded in round four.
RELAYS
New Hampshire earned a total of 10 points in the three relays. The 4x800m quartet of senior Aidan Sullivan (Nashua, N.H.), grad student Matthew Adams (Concord, N.H.), sophomore Kenney McElroy (West Linn, Ore.) and senior James Wilkes (Concord, N.H.) earned second place with an aggregate time of 7:34.65.
UNH's 4x100m quartet of Monahan, junior Emmanuel Nkounkou (Dover, N.H.), Love and freshman Adrian Sutton (Rochester, N.H.) crossed the finish line in 44.23 seconds to earn eighth place.
In the last event of the meet, UNH's 4x400m relay squad of Nkounkou, junior Colin Conery (Concord, N.H.), freshman Zach Plaza (Derry, N.H.) and junior Spenser Sawyer (Windham, N.H.) finished in eighth place with a clocking of 3:27.08.
1,500-METER
Wilkes raced to third place in the 1,500m with a time of 3:50.63. He ran a split of 55.51 seconds in the last lap but was edged out by two runners down the final stretch; the winner crossed the finish line less than one second ahead of Wilkes (3:49.68) and the runner-up was at 3:50.05.
DECATHLON
Junior Brian Genet (Merrimack, N.H.), who entered Sunday in eighth place with 3,038 points, accrued 2,547 points in Day 2 of the decathlon to climb into fifth place and earn four team points. Genet's top-scoring event of the day was the 110m hurdles (629 points); his top point-getter overall was the 100m (725).
800 METERS
In the 800m, McElroy ran a split of 57.42 seconds in the second lap to pass a pair of runners and earn fifth place with a time of 1:53.98. He ran the fourth-fastest split in the second lap.
TRIPLE JUMP
Senior Jordan Buckmire (Nashua, N.H.) recorded a distance of 46-5.5 in the triple jump to finish in sixth place and earn three team points. He recorded that mark on his final attempt and held steady in sixth place.
HIGH JUMP
In the high jump, Nkounkou cleared a height of 6-0.5 – the same height as the sixth through eighth place finishers – but finished ninth because the other competitors cleared that height on the first attempt and Nkounkou did so on his second attempt.
UP NEXT
New Hampshire is schedule to return to action May 14-15 at the New England Championships, which will be held at Central Connecticut State University.
UNH placed fourth at the conference championship meet with a total of 96 points; the Wildcats recorded one win and two runner-up finishes both days. UAlbany captured first place with 140 points and was followed by UMass Lowell (115.5) and Stony Brook University (115).
New Hampshire was followed by Binghamton University (89), University of Maine (88), University of Vermont (74), UMBC (60.5), University of Hartford (42) and NJIT (31).
Astle earned a total of 21 points at the two-day meet with Sunday's shot put win and sixth place in the discus, as well as Saturday's runner-up finish in the hammer.
CLICK HERE for complete results.
Astle's mark of 55 feet, 0.6 inches on his first shot put would have stood as the winning distance, but he bested that with a mark of 55-0.75 in round 3 and that proved to be the winning throw.
110-METER HURDLES
Two Wildcats earned a total of 11 team points in the 110-meter hurdles. Senior Michael Monahan (Tewksbury, Mass.) finished second with a time of 15.04 seconds and freshman William Love (Newton, Mass.) crossed the finish line in 15.83 for sixth place. Monahan bested his Saturday qualifying time of 15.18.
DISCUS
A pair of 'Cats placed in the top eight in the discus to earn nine points. Freshman Joshua Hoffman (Litchfield, N.H.) recorded his top distance of 157-2 -- on the fourth of six attempts -- to earn third place and six team points. Astle finished sixth in the discus with a mark of 151-4, which he also recorded in round four.
RELAYS
New Hampshire earned a total of 10 points in the three relays. The 4x800m quartet of senior Aidan Sullivan (Nashua, N.H.), grad student Matthew Adams (Concord, N.H.), sophomore Kenney McElroy (West Linn, Ore.) and senior James Wilkes (Concord, N.H.) earned second place with an aggregate time of 7:34.65.
UNH's 4x100m quartet of Monahan, junior Emmanuel Nkounkou (Dover, N.H.), Love and freshman Adrian Sutton (Rochester, N.H.) crossed the finish line in 44.23 seconds to earn eighth place.
In the last event of the meet, UNH's 4x400m relay squad of Nkounkou, junior Colin Conery (Concord, N.H.), freshman Zach Plaza (Derry, N.H.) and junior Spenser Sawyer (Windham, N.H.) finished in eighth place with a clocking of 3:27.08.
1,500-METER
Wilkes raced to third place in the 1,500m with a time of 3:50.63. He ran a split of 55.51 seconds in the last lap but was edged out by two runners down the final stretch; the winner crossed the finish line less than one second ahead of Wilkes (3:49.68) and the runner-up was at 3:50.05.
DECATHLON
Junior Brian Genet (Merrimack, N.H.), who entered Sunday in eighth place with 3,038 points, accrued 2,547 points in Day 2 of the decathlon to climb into fifth place and earn four team points. Genet's top-scoring event of the day was the 110m hurdles (629 points); his top point-getter overall was the 100m (725).
800 METERS
In the 800m, McElroy ran a split of 57.42 seconds in the second lap to pass a pair of runners and earn fifth place with a time of 1:53.98. He ran the fourth-fastest split in the second lap.
TRIPLE JUMP
Senior Jordan Buckmire (Nashua, N.H.) recorded a distance of 46-5.5 in the triple jump to finish in sixth place and earn three team points. He recorded that mark on his final attempt and held steady in sixth place.
HIGH JUMP
In the high jump, Nkounkou cleared a height of 6-0.5 – the same height as the sixth through eighth place finishers – but finished ninth because the other competitors cleared that height on the first attempt and Nkounkou did so on his second attempt.
UP NEXT
New Hampshire is schedule to return to action May 14-15 at the New England Championships, which will be held at Central Connecticut State University.
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