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PITTSFORD, N.Y. -- Nazareth's women's and men's track and field teams completed the second day of competition at the NYSCTC Championships, hosted by St. John Fisher. Junior Michaela Gildemeyer and Hannah Brackley each won events in the women's meet while Jake Lafaver claimed second in the 800-meter run in the men's meet. Gildemeyer's first-place time of 2:13.7 in the 800 was the best by nearly five seconds, and it beat Nazareth's school record, which had stood for six years.

The Golden Flyers' women's team finished eighth with 51 points. Ithaca claimed first with 166 points, followed by St. Lawrence with 152.2 points, and Rochester with 149.5 points.

Brackley took first in the 400-meter dash by .17 seconds as she finished in :57.94 to earn 10 points, and she was fourth in the 200-meter event (:26.25) for five additional points. Sophomore Gabrielle LeBihan added an additional five points with a fourth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run as she recorded a school record with a time of 17:56.19. Freshman Emily Thompson earned another two points with a seventh-place finish (18:15.77) in the 5,000. Freshman Jamie DiSalvo (19.14.98) and sophomore Blair Meeson (19:37.35) also competed and finished 14th and 16th, respectively.

The Golden Flyers' 4x400 and 4x100-meter relay teams also both tallied five points with a pair of fourth-place finishes. Gildemeyer and Brackley were joined by juniors Sibongile Chisi and Allison Wean in the 4x400 as they finished in 4:02.56. In the 4x100 event, Brackley, sophomores Amanda Entress and Taylor Pierson, and Chisi teamed together to finish in :50.20.

Nazareth already had nine total points following a fourth-place finish from Pierson in the long jump and a fifth-place from Chisi in the pole vault. Chisi broke her week-old school record by vaulting 3.17 meters (10 feet, 4 1/4 inches) while Pierson leaped 5.52 meters (18 feet, 1 1/2 inches).

Entress also finished 10th in the long jump (5.22 m.; 17 ft., 1 1/2 in.) and 11th in the triple jump (10.41 m.; 34 ft., 1 3/4 in.). Additionally, freshman Kelsey Hill was 13th in the triple jump with a mark of 10.3 meters (33 ft., 9 1/2 in.), while graduate student Jessica Hogan was 20th in the women's hammer with a throw of 35.1 meters (115 ft., 1 9/10 in.).

In the prelims, freshman Elisa Marchione was 14th in 100 hurdles (:16.79), and sophomore Kenzi Coon was 16th in the 400 hurdles (1:13.26).

In the men's meet, Nazareth finished 12th with 26 points. RPI took the men's title with 162.5 points, followed by Rochester with 142 points, and Ithaca with 101 points.

Lafaver's second-place time in the 800-meters was 1:53.9 as he was edged by .14 seconds by Cobleskill's Evan Quinones. Zack Lafaver was 13th with a time of 1:59.02, and he was followed by freshmen Jacob Murray (2:02.2) and Matt Battaglia (2:03.23). In addition to the points from Jake Lafaver, Brandon Vuolo and Luis Rivera also scored two points apiece for the Golden Flyers. Vuolo was seventh in the shot put with a throw of 13.52 meters (44 ft., 4 1/4 in.), and Rivera was seventh in the discus with a school-record mark of 39.81 meters (130 ft., 7 1/3 in.).

Like the women's team, the men's team also entered with points from the 4x800-meter relay and Rivera's hammer throw. The foursome of Fedrizzi, Zack Lafaver, Jake Lafaver, and Murray earned eight team points with a second-place time of 8:04.29. Rivera, meanwhile, earned six team points with a hammer throw of 49.65 meters (162 feet, 10 3/4 inches), about four inches short of the school record he set last weekend at the University of Rochester.

Sophomore Khiary Gayle added a 12th-place finish in the triple jump (12.8 m.; 42 ft.), and Fedrizzi was 19th in the 1500 (4:16.72).

The Golden Flyers are scheduled to compete at the Oneonta May Meet on May 10th before traveling to RPI for the ECAC Championships, May 15th-16th.