RESULTS

LANDOVER, Md. (Feb. 13, 2011) - A contingent of distance runners propelled the Saint Francis men's track & field team to a fifth place finish at the 2010-11 Northeast Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships, with the Red Flash bringing home two winners and nearly adding one more on Sunday in Landover.

Saint Francis claimed its second individual championship of the meet with the athlete who provided it with the first, as Christopher Mills raced to a first place finish in the 5000m with a time of 14:58.90.  Mills entered the meet with three individual NEC championships, but all had previously come at the Outdoor meet; just a junior, Mills can now boast five individual NEC championships, including a clean sweep of his two events at the 2010-11 Indoor games.

In addition to Mills' win, the Red Flash added their second victory in the Distance Medley Relay in three years when the team of Christopher Behre, Daniel Drozdowsky (Toronto, Ontario/Michael Power-St. Joseph), Nicholas Gibson, and Kyle Gibson (Canonsburg, PA/Canon McMillan) broke the tape with an IC4A-qualifying time of 10:16.59, narrowly edging out the second-place Wagner squad.  The last time the Red Flash won the DMR was at the 2008-09 Indoor Championships, when it was part of their team championship effort; overall, the Flash have won four of the last 11 DMR's at the Indoor championships.

Two members of that team also found themselves competing as individuals on Sunday.  Behre took home a pair of top-three finishes, with a third-place showing in the 800m (1:55.44) before falling tantalizingly short in his quest to win the Mile for the third straight year; Behre finished in second place with a time of 4:18.28, just 0.2 seconds behind the champion.  Kyle Gibson (Canonsburg, PA/Canon McMillan) was fifth in that Mile run, finishing in 4:19.37.

The top performer in the field for the Red Flash was Terry Bookhamer (Altoona, Pa./Altoona), whose impressive launch in the Weight Throw was good for fourth place.  Bookhamer tossed the implement 17.14m, an IC4A-qualifying toss that was one of four NEC tosses to qualify.  Bookhamer's throw was the fifth-best throw in program history.

Elsewhere on the track, seniors Brent DiGiorgio (Armagh, Pa./United) and Timothy Wertner (Chambersburg, Pa./Greencastle-Antrim) found themselves in the mix in the 5000m.  DiGiorgio took fourth in the event wit ha time of 15:08.16, while Wertner was sixth wit ha time of 15:12.81.