Compete Results

GENESEO, N.Y.—Senior Zaire Rogers (Cheektowaga, N.Y./Cheektowaga) set the SUNY Potsdam discus record and senior Timothy Petty (Highland, N.Y./Highland) matched his program mark in the pole vault on the final day of the SUNYAC Track and Field Outdoor Championships at SUNY Geneseo. The Bears women finished ninth and the men were eighth. The host Knights successfully defended both the men's and women's titles.
 
Rogers was 17th in the discus, topping his own program record with a distance of 36.00m. Petty was seventh in the decathlon pole vault, matching his own mark with a height of 2.90m. Petty also had Potsdam's eighth best distance in the decathlon discus with 31.53m to place fifth. He recorded an overall decathlon score of 4911 points, the program's second-best mark.
 
The Bears had four other program top-10 performances. In the women' s 4x100M relay, sophomore Madison Wagner (Chittenango, N.Y./Chittenango), junior Emily Yousey (Lacona, N.Y./Sandy Creek), freshman JoAnne Powers (Malone, N.Y./Franklin Academy) and junior Emma Robbins (Newark, N.Y./Newark) were sixth, with Potsdam's second fastest time of 51.56. In the 100M finals, Wagner was also sixth with the program's third-best time of 12.85, after setting the Potsdam record in the preliminaries yesterday. Junior Ryan Orcutt (East Greenbush, N.Y./Columbia) just missed matching his program record in the 400M hurdles, finishing eighth with the program's second fastest time of 1:00.43. Graduate student Aly Ceesay (Bronx, N.Y./Bronx Early College Academy for Teaching) was eighth in the high jump with Potsdam's fourth-best height of 1.75m.
 
The Bears are back in action on May 15-16 at the All-Atlantic Region Championships, hosted by SUNY Cortland.