Newby Wins 5,000-Meter in Tartans Second Place Finish at UAA Championships

(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – The Carnegie Mellon University men's track and field team hosted the final day of the 2012 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships Sunday, April 29.  The two-day event was held at Gesling Stadium.  The Tartans ended the competition in second place with 149.5 points while Washington University won the title scoring 195.5 points.

On Sunday afternoon, sophomore Josh Newby (Palo Alto, Calif./Palo Alto) claimed his second UAA title of the championships, as he crossed the finish line with a time of 15:16.26 in the 5,000-meter race.

The Tartans 4x400 relay team of junior Ben Nealy (Egg Harbor Twp., N.J./Egg Harbor Twp.), sophomore Mike Standish (Washington, Pa./Trinity), freshmen Thomas Vandenberg (Mamaroneck, N.Y./Mamaroneck) and junior Noel Titus (Bronx, N.Y./Choate Rosemary Hall) claimed the team's second top finish of the afternoon when they crossed the finish line 3:19.00 to end the meet.

Vandenberg placed second in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:58.42. Titus ran a time of 22.60 in the 200-meter dash to finish second and sophomore Kenneth Murphy (Carlisle, Pa./Cumberland Valley) ran to a sixth-place finish in the 1,500-meter race with a career-best time of 4:00.46.
 
In the field events, senior Ryan Kissell (Greensburg, Pa./Greater Latrobe) and freshmen Michael McDermott (Seekonk, Mass./La Salle Academy) and Gino Pilato (Greensburg, Pa./Hempfield Area) turned in third place finishes.  Kissell's came in the triple jump with a career-best jump of 13.52 while McDermott cleared a height of 1.88 meters in the high jump.  Pilato's third-place was in the discus after throwing a season-best distance of 44.79 meters.   

Also in the discus, sophomores Zachary Erra-Hernandez (Las Cruces, N.M./Onate) and Nathan Cheek (Lancaster, Ohio/Lancaster) placed fourth in fifth with tosses of 44.39 meters and 43.89 meters.  Cheek turned in a fourth-place showing in the javelin with a mark of 51.00 meters.