Senior Vinny Tortorella had a five-foot personal-best in the final meet of his collegiate career to place seventh in the hammer throw at the NCAA Championship on Friday in Sacramento, Calif. Tortorella tossed the hammer 217'5 and earned All-America honors.
Tortorella placed 10th in the preliminaries of the hammer throw on Wednesday with a throw of 209'8. The top-12 advanced to the finals. In the finals, Tortorella had throws of 210'4.5, 213'8 and 215'10.5 before launching his best throw of 217'5. In his final throw of the day, Tortorella threw the hammer 217'2.5.
Prior to Friday's action, Tortorella's personal-record was 212'7 when he won the IC4A Championship. Tortorella was America East and New England champ this season. During the indoor season, Tortorella was an All-American after placing seventh at the NCAA Championship in the weight throw.
• NCAA Championship: schedule/results
Men's Hammer Throw Finals
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Auto: 68.05 Advance best 12 and ties prelim - finals.
15 minutes warm-up for each flight, 15 minutes before finals.
Advance best 9 plus ties to a reverse order final.
American: 82.52m 9/7/1996 Lance Deal, NYAC
College Best: 81.94m 5/19/1995 Balazs Kiss, USC
NCAA Meet: 80.86m 5/31/1996 Balazs Kiss, USC
Hornet Stad: 78.87m 7/21/2000 Lanca Deal, NYAC
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 Lucais MacKay JR Georgia 70.19m 230-03 10
68.32m 66.78m 66.62m 67.40m 68.83m 70.19m
2 Drew Loftin SR Colorado State 67.83m 222-06 8
FOUL 67.65m FOUL 67.27m 67.83m 66.60m
3 Panagiotis Mavraganis SR Georgia 67.21m 220-06 6
65.56m 63.99m 65.32m 66.23m 65.75m 67.21m
4 Janne Vartia SR Texas-El Paso 67.13m 220-03 5
65.56m 64.93m 67.13m FOUL PASS PASS
5 Adam Kriz SR Oregon 67.10m 220-02 4
66.51m 67.10m 59.56m FOUL 64.52m 67.04m
6 Spyridon Jullien FR Virginia Tech 66.65m 218-08 3
64.62m 66.49m FOUL 66.65m FOUL FOUL
7 Vincent Tortorella SR Northeastern 66.27m 217-05 2
64.12m 65.13m FOUL 65.80m 66.27m 66.21m
8 Nick Welihozkiy SR Stanford 65.72m 215-07 1
63.71m 65.72m 64.59m FOUL 64.43m 62.90m
9 Gabor Mate SR Auburn 64.97m 213-02
63.45m 63.45m 64.76m 63.63m 64.07m 64.97m
10 Jerome Bortoluzzi FR Southern Methodist 64.15m 210-05
FOUL 64.15m 63.92m
11 Adam Judge SR Indiana 62.71m 205-09
62.71m FOUL 61.65m
12 Keith McBride JR Purdue 58.24m 191-01
FOUL 55.17m 58.24m
Men's Hammer Throw Preliminaries
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Name Year School Prelims
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Preliminaries
1 Lucais MacKay JR Georgia 69.17mq 226-11
66.99m 69.17m PASS
2 Spyridon Jullien FR Virginia Tech 68.01mq 223-01
68.01m PASS PASS
3 Janne Vartia SR Texas-El Paso 67.27mq 220-08
62.12m 67.27m FOUL
4 Nick Welihozkiy SR Stanford 66.14mq 217-00
63.24m 62.28m 66.14m
5 Drew Loftin SR Colorado State 65.67mq 215-05
65.67m FOUL 64.67m
6 Jerome Bortoluzzi FR Southern Methodist 65.66mq 215-05
65.66m 65.61m FOUL
7 Adam Kriz SR Oregon 65.20mq 213-11
62.79m 65.20m 64.69m
8 Gabor Mate SR Auburn 65.00mq 213-03
65.00m FOUL FOUL
9 Adam Judge SR Indiana 64.90mq 212-11
64.90m 64.15m FOUL
10 Vincent Tortorella SR Northeastern 63.91mq 209-08
63.91m FOUL 63.48m
11 Panagiotis Mavraganis SR Georgia 63.43mq 208-01
62.46m FOUL 63.43m
12 Keith McBride JR Purdue 62.46mq 204-11
57.89m 62.46m FOUL
13 Ian Brewer SO Georgia Tech 61.21m 200-10
FOUL 61.21m FOUL
14 Adam Midles FR Southern California 60.97m 200-00
60.45m 60.97m 60.85m
15 Richard Legarra SR Arizona 60.17m 197-05
59.33m 59.93m 60.17m
16 Lynden Reder JR Minnesota 60.09m 197-02
60.09m 58.30m FOUL
17 John Newell JR Georgia 59.76m 196-01
59.76m FOUL FOUL
18 John Paul Smolenski SO Purdue 59.57m 195-05
59.57m FOUL 57.95m
19 Ted Corderio SR Montana 59.21m 194-03
FOUL 59.21m FOUL
20 Colton Hodge SO Auburn 59.02m 193-08
56.50m 58.66m 59.02m
21 Joe Drevlow SR Illinois State 58.53m 192-00
55.47m 58.53m FOUL
22 John Griffith SR Wyoming 58.19m 190-11
57.95m 58.19m 57.63m
23 Adam Trainor SO Colorado State 58.07m 190-06
57.79m 53.61m 58.07m
24 Ryan Bruhn JR Utah State 56.56m 185-07
55.51m FOUL 56.56m
25 Russ Bell SR Missouri 55.47m 182-00
FOUL FOUL 55.47m
-- Michael Murray SR Southern California FOUL
FOUL FOUL FOUL
