Results
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Graduate student Robby Castor paced the Golden Flyers by winning the mile run with a time of 4:28.12 Sunday as Nazareth competed at the Empire 8 Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at RIT's Gordon Field House.

Nazareth finished sixth in the team standings with 23 points. Ithaca was first with 181, followed by RIT (138), Alfred (51), Stevens (38), Utica (32) and Nazareth.

Castor also finished third in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:00.89. Sophomore Dan Polino finished sixth in the triple jump with a leap of 12.89 meters (42 feet, 3 1/2 inches) and junior Matt Morales was ninth in the 5,000-meter run (16:22.25).

Nazareth's distance medley relay team also finished third in 11:14.93 with the group of Tim Rutan, Philip Schierer, Dave Patalano and Morales.

In the women's meet, senior Melissa Cutcliffe turned in a dominating performance in winning the long jump. Cutcliffe broke the her own school record as well as the meet record with a first-place leap of 5.44 meters, which equals 17 meet, 10 and 1/4 inches -- five inches farther than her closest competitor. She was named women's Field Athlete of the Meet and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division III meet at DePauw, Ind. in March.

Cutcliffe's finish was good for 10 team points and helped Nazareth to a fourth-place finish in the team standings. Ithaca won the meet with 222 points, followed by RIT (97), Stevens (44), Nazareth (25), Alfred (22) and Utica (21).

Junior Kristi Custer also broke her own school record with a second-place finish in the triple jump. She jumped 10.72 meters or 35 feet, 2 inches.

Other top finishers for Nazareth included freshman Mindy Niebuhr with a third-place finish in the high jump with a leap of 1.53 meters (or 5 feet, 1/4 inches) and senior Caitlyn Parmelee with a seventh-place finish in the mile with a time of 2:35.96.

Nazareth's distance medley relay team of Michelle Gillette, Evelyn DeSantis, Michelle Rombach and Lauren Jamieson finished third with a time of 13:35.63.

Empire 8 Men's Indoor Track and Field
All-Conference Teams 2010
Track Athlete of the Meet: Jeff Wetmore, Ithaca
Field Athlete of the Meet: Kyle Devins, Ithaca
#denotes meet record

55-Meter Dash
1st Team - Max Orenstein, Ithaca :06.53#
2nd Team - Jeff Wetmore, Ithaca :06.58

55-Meter Hurdles
1st Team - Matt Confer, RIT :08.06
2nd Team - Victor Servito, Stevens :08.23

200-Meter Dash
1st Team - Jeff Wetmore, Ithaca :22.63
2nd Team - Max Orenstein, Ithaca :22.65

400-Meter Dash
1st Team - Doug Koury, Ithaca :05.44#
2nd Team - Brecht Moulin, RIT :50.50

800-Meter Run
1st Team - Sam Smolenski, RIT 1:59.06
2nd Team - David Geary, Ithaca 2:00.53

Mile Run
1st Team - Robby Castor, Nazareth 2:28.12
2nd Team - David DeWan, Stevens 4:29.18

5,000-Meter Run
1st Team - Mike Kurvach, RIT 15:26.35
2nd Team - Dan Craighead, Ithaca 15:36.69

1,600-Meter Relay
1st Team - Ithaca (Doug Koury, Chris Mastrosimone, Max Orenstein, Jeff Wetmore) 3:24.44
2nd Team - RIT (Sam Smolenski, Jonathan Sealander, Christopher Webb, Brecht Moulin) 3:27.96

Distance Medley Relay
1st Team - RIT (Caryl Brunner, Joe Casey, John Holleran, Mike Kurvach) 10:35.80
2nd Team - Ithaca (Brian McCormick, Joel Trager, David Geary, William Way) 10:47.14

High Jump
1st Team - Kyriq Williams, Utica 1.92m#
2nd Team - Doug Koury, Ithaca 1.87m

Pole Vault
1st Team - Michael Dempsey, RIT 4.75m#
2nd Team - Andrew Brown, Ithaca 4.60m

Long Jump
1st Team - Kyle Devins, Ithaca 7.20m#
2nd Team - Brian Maley, Ithaca 6.80m

Triple Jump
1st Team - Kyle Devins, Ithaca 14.16m#
2nd Team - Marquis Moore, RIT 13.72m

Shot Put
1st Team - Shawn Ross, Alfred 13.51m
2nd Team - Mike Raplee, Alfred 12.87m

35-Pound Weight Throw
1st Team - Brian Walker, RIT 14.95m#
2nd Team - Markenson Joseph, Alfred 13.73m