QUEBEC CITY – Olivier Gregoire and Mackenzie Stathis each posted gold medal performances as the McGill men's track and field team finished second at the Laval Invitational meet, Saturday.
 
This was the first event on the brand-new Mondo surface at the Centre PEPS and the host Laval Rouge et Or swept both the men's and women's divisions.
 
On the men's side, the defending conference champion Rouge et Or scored 187 points, to finish first of eight universities. McGill, which was missing star distance runner Matthew Beaudet, won two gold medals, three silvers and a pair of bronzes. The Redbirds placed second overall with 89 points, followed by Montreal (63), UQAC (35), ETS (31), Sherbrooke (25), UQAM (12) and UQTR (8).

Three members of the Redbirds scored 10 points apiece to account for 30 of the team's 89 points at the meet.

Gregoire, a 5-foot-8 sophomore from St. Aubert, Que., tallied his by winning the pole vault competition,. An Arts & Science sophomore majoring in sociology and sustainability, Gregoire cleared a height of 4.20 metres, which put him ahead of Laval's Gabriel Pelletier, the silver-medalist who jumped 4.10.

Stathis, a 6-foot-2 jumps specialist from Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que., won gold in the long jump. The computer science junior registered a meet-best distance of 6.29m, which edged out teammate Alex Crooks, who registered a silver-medal winning leap of 6.22.

McGill's other leading scorer was Kilty McGonigal, a 5-foot-11 multi-events specialist from Deux Montagnes , Que., who registered eight of his 10 points with a silver-medal finish in the 60m hurdles. The civil engineering sophomore was clocked at 9.11 seconds, which ranked second to the time of 8.80 posted by Laval's Mathis Laganiere.. McGonigal also collected two points in the shot put, finishing seventh overall with a toss of 10.32m.

One meet remains for athletes to qualify for Nationals before the RSEQ conference championships, which will be hosted by McGill, Feb. 24-25. Before then, the Carleton Last Chance Meet is a two-day event slated for Feb. 17-18 in Ottawa.
 
(LINK TO ARTICLE ON WOMEN'S RESULTS)

COMPLETE MEET RESULTS (PDF)


HOW McGILL'S BEST FARED
 

(MEN)			BEST RESULT
EVENT	REDBIRDS	RANK	(FINAL)	(PRELIM)	McGILL RECORD
60m	Mark Schulz	DNQ		0:07.52	0:06.78
300m	Kilty McGonigal	DNQ		0:40.18	0:34.14
600m	(event not held at meet)				1:19.15
1000m	Devin Chapple	4th	2:36.62		2:24.76
1500m	(no McGill entries)				3:48.01
3000m	(no McGill entries)				8:18.79
1 Mile	Tom Secheyron	SILVER	4:24.62
1 Mile	Felix Bedard	BRONZE	4:25.91
60m hurdles	Kilty McGonigal	SILVER	0:09.11		0:08.19
60m hurdles	Jeremi Kolakowski	BRONZE	0:09.99
4x200m	(event not held at meet)				1:27.92
4x400m	(no McGill entries)				3:14.98
4x800m	Devin Chapple, Lucien Louvet, Tom Secheyron, Alex Miller	4th	8:32.57		7:38.96
High Jump	Jules Barrieu	4th	1.50m		2.07m
Pole Vault	Olivier Gregoire	GOLD	4.20m		4.86m
Long Jump	Mackenzie Stathis	GOLD	6.29m		7.20m
Long Jump	Alex Crooks	SILVER	6.16m
Triple Jump	(event not held at meet)				14.90m
Shot Put	Kilty McGonigal	7th	10.32m		16.35m
Weight Throw (35 lbs)	(no McGill entries)				(n/a)
Pentathlon	(event not held at meet)				3,669 pts
Heptathlon	(event not held at meet)				4,739 pts

SOURCE
Earl Zukerman
Sports Information Officer
Athletics & Recreation
McGill University
514-398-7012 (Tel.)
www.mcgillathletics.ca
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca