Results

SELINSGROVE, Pa. – The Drew University men's track & field team enjoyed a successful debut at the Landmark Conference Indoor Championships on Saturday at Susquehanna University.
 
Competing in their inaugural season, the Rangers earned the first two medals in program history. Drew scored 30 points to place seventh in the team standings, finishing in front of Juniata (26.5 points). Susquehanna claimed the team title with 187.5 points.
 
Freshman Zach Mogambi became the first Drew men's track & field athlete to earn an individual conference medal, as he claimed the silver in the shot put with a season-best throw of 46- 4 1/2.
 
Drew also earned a medal in the relays, as junior Ricky Ruto Talam, freshman Adian Hanson, sophomore Alpha Sesay, and freshman Jeff Ayeh-Datey took the bronze in a season-best time of 1:34.27.
 
Junior Toby Gaynor added a fourth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run (15:57.99) early in the meet, then came back complete the tough double with an eighth-place finish in the 3,000-meter run (9:16.24).
 
Ayeh-Datey and Hanson also scored points for the Rangers by virtue of their top-eight finish. Ayeh-Datey placed seventh in the 400-meter dash with a season-best mark of 52.53, and Hanson also took seventh with a season-best 23.05 clocking in the 200-meter dash.  
 
Talam also came in 12th in the 800-meter run (2:07.97), as did freshman Carl Adolphe in the weight throw (SB 39-2 1/4). Mogambi also placed 13th in the weight throw (38-5 1/2) while freshman Thomas Edwards took 17th in the 5,000-meter run (SB 17:10.12). Sophomore Dylan Crain (mile, 5:07.29) and Anthony Quesada (weight throw, 32-2 1/4) each placed 19th while sophomore Gaetano Allegri (800, 2:13.41) and Sesay (200, 24.61) each finished 20th. Senior Darius Sanders also competed in the shot put (21st, SB 30-9 3/4).
 
Additionally, two other relay teams were in action. The 4x400-meter squad of Talam, Hanson, Sesay, and Ayeh-Datey placed sixth in 3:42.11 while the distance medley team of Allegri, freshman Aidan Rosser, Kevin Kiprotich Kirui, and Crain placed seventh in 11:51.84.
 
Several Rangers will now compete in the Tufts University Qualifying Meet in Medford, Mass. next Saturday.