Pepe’s discus win at the Stony Brook Wolfie Invitational catapulted the first-year Seahawk into first place on the NEC event leader board. The Garden State product sent the implement 49.28m (161’ 8”) to surpass Mount St. Mary’s junior Mathew Selba for the league lead. In addition to automatically qualifying for the IC4A Championships, Pepe also cracked the NCAA DI East Region Top 80.