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Brockport Women’s Track & Field Wins SUNYAC Title
Melissa Scorse and Shannon O’Keeffe each win two individual titles
May 2, 2009
 Shannon O'Keeffe wins two events at the SUNYAC Championships(credit: Michael Pratt, MLPhoto)
The Brockport women won its first-ever SUNYAC Championship in Track & Field with 176 points, finishing 38 points ahead of second-place SUNY Cortland (138). SUNY Geneseo (130½) finished third, followed by Buffalo State (109½), SUNY Oneonta (90), SUNY Plattsburgh (68), SUNY Fredonia (53) and SUNY Oswego (13).
For the men, SUNY Geneseo won the team title with 171 points, followed by SUNY Cortland (154½), Buffalo State (122) and Brockport (120). SUNY Oneonta (95) was fifth, with SUNY Fredonia (63), SUNY Plattsburgh (29½) and SUNY Oswego (22) rounding out the team scoring.
Scorse was first in the 100-meter dash with a winning time of 12.42 seconds and took top honors in the 200-meter dash with a time of :25.68. O’Keeffe was the winner in the 100-meter hurdles, posting at time of 15.74 seconds, and then set a new facility record with a winning leap of 37’10½” in the triple jump.
Other top finishers for the Golden Eagles included Amanda Elias (Belmont, NY/Genesee Valle) with a second-place finish in the 800-meter dash with a time of 2:17.41, Nicole Sosnoski (Elmira, NY/Elmira Southside), who finished second in the long jump (16’10¾”), and Stacey Gibbons (Eden, NY/Eden), the second-place finisher in the shot put with a heave of 38’2¼”.
The Brockport men were paced by the throwers with three first-place finishes with Dom Gonzalez (Monroe, NY/Monroe-Woodbury) improving his NCAA-provisional distance from earlier this season with a winning hammer throw of 180’5”. Ray Lund (Thiells, NY/North Rockland) was the winner in the discus with a winning toss of 153’2” and Zach Williamson (Holland Patent, NY/Holland Patent) won the shot put with a heave of 47’3½”.
Rusty Landon (Ithaca, NY/Lansing) won the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.42 seconds, and the 4x100 relay team also placed first for Brockport.
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