ITHACA, NY - The Utica University men's track and field team completed day one of the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference (AARTFC) Indoor Championships in Ithaca on Friday, with a variety of invitees competing in a plethora of events.
 
Hunter Logan (Fort Plain, NY/Herkimer College), fresh off yet another Empire 8 Championship just a week ago, kept up his dominant ways as he took second in a shot-put field of 23 total throwers. Logan launched a throw of 16.83 meters on his second attempt, good for second among the entire field. The Empire 8 champion's throw was much farther than the majority of the competition, with a severe drop off occurring after the third-place thrower as Logan beat the fourth ranked thrower by an entire meter and a half.
 
The 4x400 team also had a spectacular showing, with the quartet of Ellis Urgent (Cornwall, NY/Cornwall Central), Nolan Flynn (Bethel, CT/Bethel), Evan Smith (Baldwinsville, NY/Baker), and Tanner Warren (Mohawk, NY/Central Valley Academy) grabbing a seventh-place finish among a field of 17 competing schools. Their final time of 3:20.87 allowed them to notch the top-half finish, also coming in as a season high for the group.
 
Speaking of Urgent, the outstanding Pioneer athlete took sixth place in the long jump, ranking highly among a total field of 26 jumpers. Urgent achieved a long of 6.87 meters in the event, getting his best distance on his last jump of the day to vault him up to sixth.
 
In the first round of the 60m hurdles, Tyshawn Taylor (Syracuse, NY/Institute of Technology) nabbed a personal record with a time of 8.63 seconds, with his dash down the lane setting a new career-high for the Pioneer hurdler. Taylor's time was also good enough to break into the record books, getting him the sixth-best all-time ranking for the 60m in program history. Taylor's 60m hurdle showing was the best of the season so far for Utica.
 
Competition will start back up Saturday morning at 10:00 am from the A&E Center at Ithaca College.