Air Force Academy
Drake Relays
Air Force Concludes Action at Drake Relays
4/29/2017 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
Results | Drake Relays, Saturday 
DES MOINES, Iowa – Members of the Air Force track and field team made two improvements to the Academy record book and picked up three runner-up finishes during the final day of competition at the 108th-annual Drake Relays on Saturday, April 29, in Des Moines, Iowa.
The women's distance medley relay of junior Giulianna Vessa, sophomore Kaliyah Gorman, freshman Megan Irvine and junior Carina Gillespie clocked the second-fastest time in Air Force history (11:23.94) to finish second in the 14-team event. Vessa and Gillespie, who moved the Falcons from fourth to second during the final leg, have now book-ended two of the four-fastest DMRs in outdoor history.
On the men's side, Air Force picked up a pair of runner-up finishes and made one improvement to the program's record book this afternoon. Junior Jamiel Trimble anchored sophomores Micah Fontaine, Keith Batista and David Collins to a runner-up finish in the shuttle hurdles relay – and the third-fastest time in program history (57.13) – while junior Andrew Milliron clocked a time of 9:06.16 to earn a second-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase. Milliron was one of two Falcons to earn top-10 marks in the steeplechase, as sophomore Trevor Siniscalchi clocked a time of 9:14.01 to finish seventh.
The quartet of senior Jason Engel, junior Tyler Koss, freshman Michael Rhoads and senior Matt Dorsey rounded out Air Force's list of finishers today, as they combined for a fourth-place time of 9:59.26 in the meet's annual Jim Wheelock Distance Medley Relay.
In the HyVee Cup standings, which includes finishes in a select lineup of relays, the men finished eighth with six points (fourth in DMR, eighth in 4x800) and the women earned a program-best 11th-place finish following their runner-up finish in the distance medley relay.
A number of Air Force throwers continue this weekend's action tomorrow (April 30), when they travel to Golden, Colo., for the Pre-Conference Invitational at Colorado School of Mines.
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