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Tortorella seventh at NCAA Championship
June 13, 2003
Hornet Stadium (Sacramento, Calif.)

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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
=================================================================================
 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
=================================================================================
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
==========================================================================
    Name                    Year School                 Prelims           
==========================================================================
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


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