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The William & Mary men's track and field team put in a very long, very productive day Saturday, collecting 16 IC4A qualifiers and yet another school record in meets at Duke and Virginia. In the former, the Tribe finished sixth out of 30 teams with 56 points, while East Carolina took top honors with 78 points.Among the top performers on Saturday was redshirt-senior Taylor Frenia (Virginia Beach, Va.), who continued to punish groundskeepers with new marks in untouched grass. He started the day in the shot put, where he finished second overall with a put of 17.83m (58-6), the second-longest effort in school history behind only his record performance from a week ago. Almost immediately, he had to turn around and get warmed up for the discus competition. Easily in the top five for most of the competition, Frenia unleashed a massive throw of 55.52m (182-2) in his sixth and final round to leap up to the top of the leaderboard and shatter not only his own school record, but also the meet and stadium records as well. That was his sixth school record of the year, and the fourth week in a row that Frenia has broken the program best.Sticking in the throws for the moment, junior Preston Richardson (Franktown, Va.) also had a pair of IC4A qualifiers on the day, finishing sixth in both the shot and the discus. In the first, he put the shot 16.41m (53-10.25), before coming back in the discus with four throws over 50m (after never reaching that mark previously in his career), including a best of 50.47m (165-7). That was the 12th-longest throw ever for W&M, and ranks him fourth all-time among Tribe throwers. Sophomore Vlad Castillo, Jr. (Belle Mead, N.J.) also broke through in the discus, placing 16th with a lifetime-best of 45.09m (147-11). That improves Castillo to 16 ...
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