Results
 
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Alex Petrecca (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde), sophomore Nicholas Grissinger (Palmyra, Pa./Milton Hershey), and junior Ken Barnes (Edison, N.J./Westminster School [Conn.]) posted one victory apiece, leading the Gettysburg College men's track and field team to a second-place showing among 16 teams at the Mason-Dixon Invitational, held Saturday at a sunny, but windy, Musselman Stadium.
 
Competing in their second home meet of the year, the Bullets finished with 168 points to place behind only Frostburg State University, which won the meet with 194 points.
 
Senior Alex Petrecca (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde) captured his first mile victory of the outdoor season after crossing the finish line in 4:26.86. Junior Sam Sheldon (Tully, N.Y./Tully) and sophomore Dylan McKeever (Furlong, Pa./Central Bucks East) placed right behind in second (4:31.44) and third (4:36.70), respectively, on their way to setting to new personal record (PR) times.
 
Sophomore Nicholas Grissinger (Palmyra, Pa./Milton Hershey) registered his third victory of the outdoor season in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 56.07.
 
Senior Mike Miller (Malvern, Pa./Great Valley) blazed his way to place second in the 5,000-meter run, clocking a time of 16:17.48 out of 16 runners.
 
In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, freshman Cole Wirth (Wallingford, PA./Strath Haven) and sophomore Peter McQuade (Long Beach, N.Y./Long Beach) collected fourth and fifth-place, respectively. Freshman Charles Norelli (Allentown, Pa./Emmaus) claimed fourth in his first career 10,000-meter run with a time of 38:11.56.
 
Classmates Petrecca and Matt Robinson (Taneytown, Md./Pinkerton Academy [N.H.]) placed fourth (1:58.22) and fifth (2:01.21), respectively in the 800-meter run out of 24 competitors.
 
Freshman Matthew Weller (Westminster, Md./Winters Mill), freshman Steven Heinbaugh (Fairfield, Pa./Fairfield), senior Thad Cwiklinski (Glen Rock, Pa./York Catholic), and Grissinger finished runner-up in the 4x400-meter relay, clocking a time of 3:27.35.
 
In the 4x100-meter relay, sophomore Colin Motill (Ridgefield, Conn./Ridgefield), junior Dylan O'Neil (Brownstown, Pa./Conestoga Valley) sophomore Cael O'Brien (Hillsborough, N.J./Hillsborough), and sophomore E.J. Fernandez (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) notched third-place (45.67).
 
Barnes led the field with a top showing in the long jump, leaping 21-0 ½.
 
Freshman Fredrick Tubula (Narok, Kenya/Friends Select School) placed runner-up in the triple jump with a mark of 42-0.
 
Freshman Corey Palazzolo (Colts Neck, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) tallied third in the high jump with a mark of 5-11 ½, while classmate Weller took fifth (5-7 ¾). Palazzolo also posted fifth in the long jump (19-6 ¾).
 
In the pole vault, Grissinger logged in a third-place showing (11-9) and freshman Thaddeus Karaman (Sherburne, N.Y./Sherburne-Earlville) finished right behind in fourth (11-9, new PR). Other Bullets athletes who also recorded top showings include freshman Matthew Brown (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East), who tallied fourth in the javelin (151-3), and Grissinger, who placed fifth in the same event (138-8, new PR).
 
Several Bullets will compete at the Penn Relays on Thursday before the rest of the team will gear up for the Centennial Conference Championships at Shippensburg's Paul Kaiser Invitational next Saturday.