Joint & Karnopp Win ECAC Individual Titles
ROXBURY CROSSING, Mass. --- Senior jumper Kristopher Joint and sophomore pole vaulter Ryan Karnopp each earned individual titles to lead the Moravian College men's indoor track & field team on the opening day of the 2014 ECAC Division III Championships Friday.
ROXBURY CROSSING, Mass. --- Senior jumper Kristopher Joint and sophomore pole vaulter Ryan Karnopp each earned individual titles to lead the Moravian College men's indoor track & field team on the opening day of the 2014 ECAC Division III Championships Friday.
Joint broke the school and meet record with a winning leap of 15.09 meters (49 feet, 6 1/4 inches) in the triple jump. Joint's mark came on his third and final jump of the preliminaries and his four distances that were measured were all longer than 14.66 meters. The 15.09 mark moves Joint into second in the nation on the Track & Field Results Reporting System list heading into next weekend's NCAA Division III National Championships.
Karnopp won the pole vault for the sixth time this season with a winning height of 4.77 meters (15 feet, 7 3/4 inches). Karnopp will likely be competing at the NCAA meet next week as his top mark of the year (4.88 meters) is tied for seventh in the nation and the top 15 competitors in each event after the final last chance meets on Saturday will head to the NCAA meet in Lincoln, Nebraska next week.
Moravian currently sits in first place in the team standings after the opening day with 22 points, two points in front of Widener University. The Greyhounds received 10 points each from Joint's and Karnopp's titles and another two points from junior Dillon Farrell, who placed seventh in the 5,000-meter run in a time of 15:14.94.
Junior Chris Ossont was 12th in the triple jump with a top mark of 13.83 meters (45 feet, 4 1/4 inches) while junior Parker Munson placed 20th in the shot put with a toss of 13.99 meters (45 feet, 10 3/4 inches). Sophomore Albert Myers took 26th in the 60-meter dash in 7.23 seconds.
Senior David Cariello sits in fifth place after the first day of the indoor heptathlon, just 72 points out of first. Cariello has 2,649 points, and he opened the day with a PR in the 60-meter dash in 7.31 seconds to earn 775 points. He then picked up 713 points for a leap of 6.57 meters (21 feet, 6 3/4 inches) and 500 points for a toss of 10.24 meters (33 feet, 7 1/4 inches). Cariello finished the first day with another PR in the high jump at 1.84 meters (six feet, 1/2 inch) for 661 points.
Cariello and the rest of the Greyhounds will return to action in the second day of the ECAC Championships on Saturday beginning at 10:00 a.m.
