Suter Earns Top Team Finish At URI Heptathlon

Thursday, December 7

Mackal Fieldhouse / Kingston, RI

Sacred Heart University Department of Athletics

University of Rhode Island Heptathlon Qualifier

Suter Earns Top Team Finish At URI Heptathlon

12/8/2023 7:07:00 PM | Men's Track and Field

Septet of Pioneers earn personal-bests

By: Cameron McClarren

KINGSTON, R.I. — Douglas Suter's seventh place finish put an end to two days' worth of events as the Sacred Heart University men's track and field team completed competition at the University of Rhode Island Heptathlon Qualifier on Friday night.

The Pioneers had four multi-event athletes compete in the two-day event with Suter taking the lone scoring spot for SHU, tallying a score of 4,311 after two-consecutive fourth place finishes in the Pole Vault and 1000m to finish in seventh place overall. First-year Joshua Sanders narrowly missed out of the eight scoring slots with a score of 4,295, highlighted by a second-place finish in the long jump and a bronze performance in the 60m hurdles.

The Red & White had six other first-year multi-event athletes compete in the heptathlon with Langston Pearson and Jeremy Knobel finishing in top-15 overall. Pearson was elevated by a second-place showing in the high jump, clearing 1.86m on the first day of competition while Knobel earned top-10 finishes in the high jump and 60m hurdles.

Kevin Dorio, Ryan McCarthym, Kelvin Paulino-Acosta and Aidan Riccardo rounded out the rest of the first years who competed during the two-day meet while senior Benjamin Healy finished the meet after the first day's events, earning a third-place finish in the 60m dash.

Up Next:
The Pioneers are back in action on Saturday, December 9, for the Yale Season Opener taking place at Coxe Cage in New Haven, Conn. Field events are slated for 9 a.m. while the track portion of the day is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.