STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Daemen men's track and field team earned three bronze medals to wrap up the indoor season at the ECC Indoor Track & Field Championships on Sunday at the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Complex.

CJ Johnson (Baltimore, Md.) (1 mile), Ibrahim Hakizimana (Rochester, N.Y.) (800m), and Ethan Keating (Wooster, Ohio) (3000m) all earned bronze for the Wildcats.  Daemen finished the meet in eighth place out of nine teams with 36 points. Roberts Wesleyan was crowned ECC Champion for the men and the women.

Johnson, Hakizimana, and Keating earned First Team All-ECC honors for top-four finishes. Simon Evans (Galway, N.Y.), Adam Kamagate (Hilton, N.Y.), and Johnson also earned Second Team-All-ECC accolades for their top-eight performances. 

 HIGHLIGHTS 

• Johnson earned the Wildcats' first medal of the night, finishing third in the mile with a personal-best mark of 4:21.06, breaking the program record he previously held. 
• Hakizimana, a freshman, made a strong ECC Championship debut, earning bronze in the 800m with a PR of 1:57.78. His time ranked third in the program record books.
• Daemen logged three top-10 finishes in the 3000m, highlighted by a third-place finish from Keating, who crossed the finish line in 9:22.13. Johnson came in fifth with a time of 9:24.76, while Evans placed ninth, finishing in 9:46.64.
• Keating finished fourth in the 5000m run with a time of 15:39.85, falling just out of medal contention after a late push by a Roberts Wesleyan runner. Evans also earned points with a sixth-place result, finishing in 16:04.18. 
• Kamagate placed seventh in the 60m hurdles. He posted a time of 8.74 seconds in the prelims, finishing in sixth, before logging a time of 8.87 seconds in the finals for seventh. 
• The Wildcats' distance medley relay team of Brad Tobin (Hamburg, N.Y.), Andre Kannisto (Boston, N.Y.), Brendan Smukall (Buffalo, N.Y.), and Josh Trometer (Lancaster, N.Y.) came in seventh with a time of 11:32.62.
• Daemen's 4x400 relay team of Kamagate Owen Dernbach (Alden, N.Y.),  Zayvion Davis (Lansing, N.Y.), and Hakizimana finished eighth, recording a time of 3:34.25.
• Off the track, Dernbach took 15th in the long jump, leaping 6.12m.

UP NEXT 
The Wildcats are off until March when their outdoor season begins. Stay tuned to daemenwildcats.com for more info.

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