Rider sophomore Cortland Webb from Highland won his season-opening race Saturday, running 55.30 in the 400-meter intermediates at the Rider Six-Way Invitational in Lawrenceville.
Webb won by nearly a second over Simon Advento of Marist University in Poughkeepsie, who ran 56.28.
It was Webb’s first race over hurdles since he placed 5th in last year’s Metro Atlantic Conference meet on the same track at Rider this past May.
Webb PR’d with a 54.50 in the prelims of the conference meet.
Webb is currently No. 2 in the MAC behind Thomas Bonsignore of Manhattan, who ran 55.15 last weekend in a meet in Coral Gables, Fla.
Next for Rider is the Sam Howell Invitational Saturday at Princeton’s Weaver Stadium.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 