April 26, 2008

Philadelphia, Pa. - Stony Brook's men's distance medley team of sophomore Alex Felce (Stroud, England), senior Melvin Genao (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.), sophomore Daire Bermingham (Portmarnock, Ireland) and sophomore Tim Hodge (Tawa, New Zealand) set a new school record while winning the college section of the men's DMR Friday at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pa.

The team finished in a time of 9:51.23, which is slightly more than 22 seconds faster than the previous record. Felce completed the 1,200-meter leg in 3:01.45, Genao the 400-meter leg in 48.82, Bermingham the 800-meter leg in 1:54.14 and Hodge the mile leg in 4:06.82.

Stony Brook beat 25 other colleges and finished more than two seconds ahead of the second-place school.