W&M Men Earn Four IC4A Qualifiers on Friday

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The William & Mary men's track and field team opened weekend action on Friday, with three men competing at Virginia and the rest of the team in action at Duke.  In the latter meet, the Tribe is ninth out of 27 teams in the clubhouse with 12 team points, while East Carolina has a two-point advantage over Charlotte, 37-35.In Charlottesville, the top performance went to sophomore Chris Short (Toano, Va.), who ran a lifetime-best 1:52.54 in the 800m to qualify for the IC4A Championships, negatively-splitting the race en route to an improvement of more than three-quarters of a second.  The Tribe got another IC4A qualifier in the 800m down at Duke, thanks to Cole Clark (Weston, Conn.) who also improved his best by roughly three-quarters of a second to run 1:52.87.Sticking at Duke, senior Taylor Frenia (Virginia Beach, Va.) once again qualified for IC4As in the hammer throw, taking third overall at 53.44m (175-4).  Junior Dylan Anderson (Madison, N.J.) also re-qualified himself in the 110m hurdles, timing 14.87 seconds for 17th-place overall.  Grad student Alex Hedrick (Falls Church, Va.) competed in two events, tying his lifetime-best in both in a very good sign for the CAA Championships two weeks from now.  In the pole vault, he was one of just two men to clear 4.55m (14-11) on his first try, en route to finishing fifth overall.  He then came back to run the 110m hurdles, timing 15.80 seconds for 30th overall.The Tribe continues action at both meets on Saturday.Duke Invitational
Team Standings
1. East Carolina 37
2. Charlotte 35
T3. Duke 25
T3. Indiana Tech 25
5. George Mason 19
6. Campbell 18
7. North Carolina A&T 17
8. Mt. Olive 139. William & Mary 12
10. Appalachian State 11
11. Elon 8
12. North Carolina Central 7
T13. The Citadel 6
T13. LIU Brooklyn 6
T15. Concord 5
T15. High Point 5
T17. Hampton 4
T17. Davidson 4
T17. Mars Hill 4
T17. North Carolina 4
T21. West Virginia Wesleyan 3
T21. Queens (N.C.) 3
T23. ...

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