Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (March 21) – The FDU-Florham men's track and field team posted four qualifying marks for the 2023 Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Outdoor Championship at Saturday's Monarch Invitational held at King's College (Pa.).

The Devils were led by sophomore Joseph Teresi (Ocean Township, NJ), who qualified for the MAC Outdoor Championship in both the shot put with his second place finish of 12.24m (40', 2 ") and the discus throw with his third place finish of 37.55m (123', 2"). He ranks second and third, respectively in the region. Teresi also took fourth in the hammer throw with a best mark of 27.30m (89', 6").
 
First-years D'Maari Brown (Manchester Township, NJ) and Ibrahim Fall (Boonton, NJ) registered MAC qualifying marks in the long jump. Brown's jump of 6.49m (21', 3.5") currently ranks first in the region, while Fall's leap of 6.41m (21', 0.5") ranks third in the region.
 
Fall also competed in the 100-meter dash with a second place finish in 11.71-seconds and paced the Devils with a fifth place finish in the 200-meter dash in 25.07-seconds. Behind Fall in the 100-meter dash was Brown in ninth in 12.48-seconds, Oluowatomiwa Adegboye (Union, NJ) in 13th in 12.72-seconds and Gabriel Sims (Elmwood Park, NJ) in 17th in 14.68-seconds. Behind Fall in the 200-meter dash was Francisco Tanez (West Orange, NJ) in seventh in 25.37-seconds and Isaiah Ramirez (Edison, NJ) in 14th in 25.77-seconds.

Adegboye placed fourth in the high jump with a best mark of 1.57m (5', 1.75 "). Ramirez paced the Devils in the 400-meter dash with his third place finish in 52.97-seconds, while Tanez crossed the line in fifth in 55.19-seconds. Shane Breedlove (Richmond, Va.) took tenth in 1:04.70.
 
James Dougherty (Kinnelon, NJ) and Otis Harold (Vineland, NJ) finished 1-2 in the 400-meter hurdles with times of 1:00.55 and 1:01.90, respectively.
 
Emmanuel Torode (Roxbury, NJ) and Kyle Savannah placed fourth and sixth, respectively, in the 800-meter run with times of 2:10.32 and 2:23.71. Both teamed up with Breedlove and Harold for a fourth place finish in the 4x400-meter relay in 3:57.89.
 
Marquez Haywood (Lindenwold, NJ), in his first collegiate meet, took fifth place in the javelin throw with a best mark of 43.55m (142', 10").
 
FDU-Florham will return to the track on Saturday, March 31 at the Stockton University Invitational.

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