Moravian Captures 8th Straight Landmark Conference Men's Indoor Track & Field Title
SELINSGROVE, Pa. --- The Moravian College men’s indoor track & field team captured its eighth straight Landmark Conference Indoor Championships Saturday at Susquehanna University with a 37-point advantage over the host River Hawks.
SELINSGROVE, Pa. --- The Moravian College men's indoor track & field team captured its eighth straight Landmark Conference Indoor Championships Saturday at Susquehanna University with a 37-point advantage over the host River Hawks.
The Greyhounds scored 152 points to 115 for Susquehanna, and Elizabethtown finished third at 112 points. The Greyhounds had five individual event winners and also captured one relay victory. Head Coach Jesse Baumann and his staff were selected as the Landmark Conference Coaching Staff of the Year.
"One of the things we stressed in our team meeting Friday was that things won't go as expected and not to get flustered by it," stated Baumann. "That couldn't have been more true than it was today, but the team handled it well and stepped up. The weight throwers had some great PRs, Goodwin was his usual steady self, our short sprinters were stellar, Cash had a great meet, Hagerty had a great long jump, and our middle distance crew handled championship racing extremely well. It was a total team effort today, and we're proud of how the team fought."
Senior Kyle Hagerty captured the long jump with an ECAC qualifying mark of 6.77 meters (22-2.5) while sophomore Scott Goodwin won the pole vault with an ECAC qualifying height of 4.57 meters (15-0). Senior Greg Cahill had a winning toss of 13.89 meters (45-7) in the shot put while sophomore John Spirk posted an ECAC qualifying, meet record and winning time of 8.42 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles to defend his title. Freshman Billy DiLolle won the 60-meter dash by three-thousandths of a second with an ECAC qualifying time of 7.012, the fifth fastest time in school history, and DiLolle joined seniors Austin Gardener and Jamil Poole and sophomore Chris Antoine to win the 4x200-meter relay in an ECAC qualifying time of 1:33.48, which is ninth in school history.
Cahill was also the runner-up in the 35-pound weight throw with a toss of 14.66 meters (48-1.25) while freshman Roland Cash was second in the triple jump at 13.33 meters (43-9). Sophomore Tyler Bergsma was third in the shot put at 12.92 meters (42-4.75) while freshman Ryan Harper finished fourth at 12.90 meters (42-4), and Bergsma also placed third in the weight throw at 14.30 meters (46-11) while sophomore Hunter Gibson took sixth at 13.71 meters (44-11.75). The student-athletes that finished in the top six in each event earned points for the Greyhounds.
Junior Eric Morton finished third in the 60-meter dash in an ECAC qualifying time of 7.06 seconds, which is tied for eighth in the Moravian record books, while Gardener took fourth in 7.12 seconds and Antoine was sixth in 7.44 seconds. Gardener also placed third in the 200-meter dash in 22.92 seconds while DiLolle was fourth in 23.00 seconds, senior Cory Taggert was fifth in 23.51 seconds and Morton placed sixth in 23.58 seconds. Taggert finished fourth in the 400-meter dash in 51.19 seconds while Spirk was a spot behind at 52.01 seconds. Sophomore Woodrow Battle placed fourth in the 60-meter hurdles in 9.05 seconds.
Junior Andrew Mitchell was third in the 800-meter run in 2:01.12 while junior Mike Kopach placed fifth in the race in 2:02.14. Freshman Greg Jaindl was fourth in the mile run in 4:27,84, and he also placed sixth in the 3,000-meter run in 9:15.44. Mitchell, Kopach, Taggert and Spirk finished second in the 4x400-meter relay in 3:29.63 while sophomore Aaron Hofmann and freshmen Gavin Kemery, Evan Lutz and Justin Beasley-Turner placed fourth in the distance medley relay in 11:16.71.
Moravian's student-athletes that have qualified will compete at the 2017 ECAC Division III Indoor Championships at Ithaca College on Friday and Saturday, March 3-4.
