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At the New England Open Indoor Track and Field Championships Friday at the Boston University Track and Tennis Center, Eastern sophomore Fredrick Hewett (New London) qualified for next weekend's  ECAC Championship in both the 200 and 400 meter dash, establishing personal bests in both. Hewett was timed in 22.65 to place 25th in a field of 31 at 200 meters and broke 50 seconds for the first time in the 400 with a time of 49.75 which was good for 21st among 31 cmopetitors.

         He is second at 60 and 200 meters and qualifies for NE meet in 60

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. --  Eastern Connecticut State University sophomore Fredrick Hewett (New London) collected 16 of his team's 19 points with second-place finishes at 60 and 200 meters at the Springfield College Invitational Saturday afternoon at the Springfield Field House.

At right: Fredrick Hewett

Hewett won his heats in both events,  and in his first attempt at 60 meters at Eastern, qualified for the New England Division III Championships with a time of 7.14, which was just .14 seconds behind winner Sean Bernstein of SUNY Oneonta in the field of 37 runners.

At 200 meters, Hewett was timed in 23.34 and finished only behind Anderson Emerole of the University of Hartford by .43 seconds. In four races at 200 meters, Hewett has won three times to go along with Saturday's second-place finish behind his Division I competitor.

Hewett's second-place finishes netted him 16 of Eastern's 19 points. The Warriors finished eighth in a ten-team field.

Also collecting points were freshman Kevin Lochard (Stamford) and junior Stephen Spranzo (Colchester). Spranzo recorded two points witih a seventh-place finish in a field of 15 at 1000 meters and Lochard added one point by taking eighth in a field of 14 at 800 meters.

Eastern competes in the Little East Conference/New England Alliance Championships Saturday at noon at the University of Southern Maine.

He wins two individual events and runs lead on winning relay

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NEW LONDON, Conn. - Eastern Connecticut State University sophomore Fredrick Hewett (New London) won the 200 and 400 meter dash and ran the lead leg on the winning 4x200 meter relay Saturday afternoon at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Invitational at the Roland Field House.

At left: Nick Pates (foreground) receives the baton from Fredrick Hewett (background) to begin the second leg of the 4x200 meter relay which won in a time of 1:35.91.

Hewett remained undefeated in three meets this season at 200 meters, and captured the 400 for the first time. Hewett, in his first season at Eastern, collected ten points by winning two individual events for the Warriors, who37 points for a third-place finish in the four-team event. Westfield was first with 109 points, Coast Guard second (80) and Trinity College (20) fourth.

Joining Hewett on the winning 4x200 relay were senior Nick Pates (East Haven) and freshmen DVonte Chambers (West Haven)  and Andre Reynolds (Hartford). In the 200, Hewett was first in a field of 13 with a time of 23.31 that was .68 faster than runner-up Brendan Corcoran of Westfield. In a field of eight in the 400, Hewett (51.75) bested Ben Hannon of Coast Guard by just under a second.  The 4x200 relay outkicked two opponents in a time of 1:35.91 that bettered Coast Guard by nearly four seconds.

At right: Freshmen D'Vonte Chambers (left) and Andre Reynolds both qualified for the final of the 55 meter dash and finished fourth and sixth, respectively, Saturday at Coast Guard.

Additional top performances included freshman Dylan Kruppa (Torrington) in the long jump, junior Ryan Franklin (Glastonbury) at 1000 meters, Chambers in the 55 and 200 and senior James DiBeneditto (Enfield) in the weight and shot. Kruppa was second in a field of 12, Franklin third among ten competitors, Chambers fourth among ten at 55 meters and fifth among 13 at 200 meters and DiBeneditto fourth in a field of 13 in the shot and fifth among 13 in the weight.

Eastern visits Springfield College Saturday at noon.

First-year sophomore outruns a field of 45, qualifies for post-season

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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. --  First-year Eastern Connecticut State University sophomore transfer Fredrick Hewett (New London) outran a field of 44 other competitors and qualified for the New England Division III Championships at 200 meters Saturday during men's competition at the Wesleyan University Indoor Track and Field Invitational at Bacon Field House.

At right: Fredrick Hewett

After  a five-week layoff, Hewett won the 200 for the second time in as many tries at Eastern with a time of 23.20 which exceeded the qualifying standard by .04 and was a second off the 12-year Eastern record. In his first meet Dec. 3, Hewett was first in a field of 18 at Springfield College in a time of 23.40.

Other top individuals in the non-scoring meet included first-year sophomore transfer Mark Jolley (East Berlin), who shared third place in a field of 18 with a mark of 6-1 ¼ in the high jump. In his first collegiate meet, Jolley had qualified for the New England Division III meet with a winning mark of 6-4 Dec. 3 at Springfield College

Freshman D'Vonte Chambers (West Haven) was 11th  at 200 meters and 13th in a field of 37 at 400 meters and set a personal best with a time of 7.35 in the preliminaries of the 60 meters.

Additional individuals establishing personal bests in addition to Hewett and Chambers were senior James DiBeneditto (Enfield) in the shot put, where he was seventh among 31 with a mark of 41-4 ½; and freshman Dylan Kruppa (Torrington), who had a long jump of 20-6 ½ which placed him seventh in a field of 26. Kruppa was also 11th in a field of 29 at 600meters.

Eastern visits the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Saturday at noon.

At Harvard Open, he is sixth in a field of 48 competitors at 400 meters

Below: Fredrick Hewett

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In his first collegiate 400 meter race, first-year sophomore Fredrick Hewett (New London) qualified for the New England Division III Championships with a time of 50.78 at the Harvard University Open Saturday at the Gordon Track & Tennis Center.

Hewett raced to a sixth-place finish in the event in a time of 50.78, bettering the qualifying standard by just less than a a second. In his first collegiate meet last Saturday at Springfield, Hewett won the 200 meter dash in a time of 23.40, falling just .16 shy of the standard needed to qualify for the New England Division III Championships in mid-February.

Freshman Andre Reynolds (Hartford) was timed in a personal best 9.05 in the preliminaries of the 60 meter hurdles, missing by .01 seconds the Division III qualifying standards.

Freshman Dylan Kruppa (Torrington) was 13th in a field of 48 with a time of 51.84 at 400 meters, falling .12 seconds the Division III qualifying time but bettering his mark of 54.18 from a week ago.

Division I, II and III institutions were represented at Saturday's non-scoring meet.

Eastern visits Wesleyan University Jan. 21 at 10 a.m.

Jolley and Hewett take individual firsts as men's track opens season

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Hewett (top), and Jolley

Selow)PRINGFIELD, Mass. - First-year sophomores  Mark Jolley (East Berlin) and Fredrick Hewett (New London) each  took individual firsts in their first collegiate meets when the Eastern Connecticut State University men's indoor track and field team  opened its 2011/12 season at the Springfield College Invitational Saturday.

Jolley  qualified for both the ECAC Division III and New England Division III championships with a winning mark of 6-4 in the high jump - besting a field of 14. Hewett outran 17 competitors with a winning time of 23.40 at 200 meters that left him just 16 hundreths of a second shy of qualifying for the New England Division III meet.

As a team, Eastern finished last in a five-team field with 32 points. Host Springfield (202) garnered 53 more points than second-place WPI. Westfield State University (127) was third and  Rhode Island College (82) fourth.

Others contributing to Eastern's point total were sophomore Tom Takacs (Trumbull), freshmen Dylan Kruppa (Torrington) and Andre Reynolds (Hartford) and the 4x200 meter relay team.

Takacs  was fourth at 600 meters (1:28.26) to net four points, Kruppa sixth in the long jump (20-3 ¾) and Reynolds sixth in the 60 meter hurdles for one point apiece. The 4x200 relay of Reynolds, Hewett, Kruppa and senior Nick Pates (East Haven) was third for six points.

Senior James DiBeneditto (Enfield) recorded a personal-best distance of 41-1 in the shot put.

Eastern competes in the Harvard University Open Saturday at 9 a.m.

Twenty-eight achieve All-Academic Team status in winter season

At left from top: Ericson, James, Buczek

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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. - A conference-high 28 Eastern Connecticut State University student-athletes have qualified for spots on the Little East Conference All-Academic Team for the winter season, it has been announced by conference commissioner Jonathan C. Harper.

For the second season this year, Eastern has topped the list of the conference's academic qualifiers. In the fall, the Warriors totaled a conference-best 31 academic qualifiers in a total of six intercollegiate sports. In five intercollegiate programs this winter, Eastern accumulated seven more academic selections than its nearest competitor.

All-Academic Team qualifiers must be have reached sophomore academic and athletic status, be enrolled in their current institutions for one full academic year, and show a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.30.

Led by senior track and field and cross country athletes Sam Buczek (Milford), Ashlee James (Franklin) and Amanda Ericson (Bolton), Eastern's 28 qualifiers this winter have combined to qualify for the All-Academic Team a total of 77 times in their careers. Each member of that trio  qualified for the academic team for the maximum eighth time. Buczek is a Business major and James and Ericson are Education majors.

Additional athletes earning academic recognition a multitude of times are senior women's soccer/basketball player Lauren Hickey (Southwick, MA) and junior cross country/track athletes Ryan Hughes (Cheshire) and Joey Perucki (Newington) As a two-sport athlete, Hickey qualified for the maximum sixth time. Hughes qualified previously twice in cross country and once in indoor and once in outdoor track while Perucki attained academic status once in cross country, twice in outdoor track and once in indoor track. Hickey and Perucki are Business majors and Hughes an Education major.

Hickey was a first-team NSCAA Scholar All-America selection this past fall.

Those qualifying for the winter All-Academic Team in their first seasons of eligibility include sophomore women's basketball players Jessica Blodgett (Niantic) and Lauren Kelleher (Dartmouth, MA), sophomore men's basketball player Joe Ives (Avon), sophomore indoor track participants Tommy Balestracci (Mystic), Ryan Franklin (Glastonbury), Colin Whiston (Brooklyn), Christine Charpentier (Monroe),  and Denica Gagnon (Colchester), and sophomore swimmer Amanda Fromerth (Manchester) and senior transfer swimmer Carolyn Jenkins (Willington).

Senior indoor track participant Stephanie Noheimer (Willimantic) earned a spot on the winter academic team with her second institution and second sport. In 2008/09, Noheimer qualified for the winter All-Academic Team as a sophomore basketball player while at conference institution Rhode Island College.

As an institution, Eastern was awarded the inaugural President's Cup last year signifying the highest overall GPA among all Little East Conference institutions. In the 19 conference-sponsored championships, Eastern featured a cumulative GPA of 3.02 during the 2009/10 academic year. Eastern sponsors teams in 17 of the conference's 19 championships.

Additional conference institutions include Keene State College, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts Dartmouth, Plymouth State University, Rhode Island College, University of Southern Maine, and Western Connecticut State University.

BOSTON -- Eastern Connecticut State University sophomore Corey Simpson (Norwich)  ran to a ninth-place finish in the 60 meter dash in a field of 28 Division I, II and III competitors -- missing out on All-New England honors by .004 -- over the weekend at the New England Open Men's  Track & Field Championships at Boston University''s Track and Tennis Center.

The Little East Conference and New England Alliance champion at 55 meters February 12, Simpson advanced through the preliminaries Friday with a ninth-place finish in a time of 7.10 to Saturday's semfinals. Needing to finish among the top ten among 16 semifinalists, Simpson was eighth overall  in a time of 7.12 -- second among Division III cometitors in a group which include three runners from meet champoin University of Connecticut.

In the finals, Simpson was clocked in 7.116, falling just .004 shy of eighth place and All-New England honors. Of the top eight finishers, six were from Division I, one from Division II and one from Division III. Aaron Radden of Central Connecticut edged Kashif Moore of Connecticut to win the individual title in a photo finish. Radden was timed in 6.865, Moore 6.866.

In last weekend's New England Division III Championships at the Springfield Field House, Siimpson achieved  All-New England status with a fourth-place finish at 55 meters.

Simpson is competing indoors for the first season after transferring from Norwich University last January.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. --  Eastern Connecticut State University sophomore Corey Simpson (Norwich) earned All-New England honors at 55 meters Saturday at the New England Division III Men's Track and Field Championships at the Springfield Field House.

A third-semester transfer competing indoors for the first season, Simpson advanced to the finals as the eighth and final qualifier with a time of 6.63 among 26 participants in the preliminaries, then finished fourth with a time of 6.59 in the finals.  Last spring, Simpson attained All-New England distinction outdoors four times in the 100 meters and with the 4x100 meter rally in New England Division III and New England Open competition.

Simpson qualified for Saturday's championships with a time of  6.65 at the Springfield College Invitational two weeks ago.  Last Saturday, he won the New England Alliance and Little East Conference championships with a personal-best time of 6.58 in the finals.

The distance medley relay finished 14th in a 15-team field. Competitors included senior Ken Landry (East Hampton), junior Nick Pates (East Haven), sophomore Nick Miller (Norwich) and freshman Brody Secore (South Windsor).

Simpson has additionally qualified for this coming weekend's New England Open at Boston University and the ECAC Division III Championships March 4-5 at the New York Armory.