Murphy Wins 5000m at George Davis Invitational

Saturday, April 19

Charlottesville, Va.

10 AM

University of New Hampshire

Virginia Challenge

John Murphy

4/19/2025 8:17:00 PM | Men's Track & Field

RESULTS

LOWELL, Mass. - Junior John Murphy (Deerfield, N.H.) led the Wildcats on the final day of the George Davis Invitational, winning the 5,000-meter run with a time of 14:45.83.

At the Virginia Challenge, featuring competition from the ACC, Big Ten, and other top programs, junior Yoofi Abaka-Amuah (Worcester, Mass.) earned a sixth-place finish in the discus with a personal-best throw of 52.00 meters.

The other Wildcats who placed in the top 10 today are…

Field Events:
High Jump

Sophomore Avery Cipcic (Suffield, Conn.) - second place, 1.96m
Sophomore Gunnar Sokol - fifth place, 1.96m
Freshman Sam Grube (Dover, N.H.) - 10th place, 1.81m

Javelin Throw

Junior Jayson Blaisdell (Barrington, N.H.) - sixth place, 53.28m

Track Events:
200m

Freshman James Gecek (High Bridge, N.J.) - eighth place, 22.87

800m

Sophomore Julian Rime (New City, N.Y.) - fourth place, 1:57.18
Freshman Ian Smith (Munster, Ind.) - 10th place, 1:58.53

1500m

Freshman Carter Norton (East Greenbush, N.Y.) - eighth place, 4:06.22

2 mile

Freshman Xavier Lemieux (Buxtone, Maine) - sixth place, 10:08.19

5000m

Freshman Gavin Malark - fifth place, 15:29.56
Freshman Carson Eames (Littleton, N.H.) - 10th place, 15:55.52

400m H

Cipcic - seventh place, 59.61

3000m SC

Junior Joshua Lesniak (Durham, Conn.) - second place, 9:36.24
Junior Zachary Hooper (Concord, N.H.) - third place, 9:43.55
Sophomore Matthew Allen (East Kingston, R.I.) - 10th place, 10:23.39

4x100m

Gecek, freshman Alain Twite (Concord, N.H.), junior Michael Mulcahy (Weymouth, Mass.), freshman Danny Anderson - sixth place, 43.29

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