Samuel Haynes

Concord Places 13th at Flames Invite

4/8/2023 7:04:00 PM

Results

CLEVELAND, Tenn. – The Concord University men's track & field team finished 13th at the Flames Invite Friday and Saturday at Lee University as it scored 16 points.

Ten points came from graduate student Issac Prather in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as he clocked 8:47.98 and finished first. He broke Jason Weitzel's program record from two years ago by three seconds, and in the process ran the second-fastest time in NCAA Division II this spring.

Junior Caleb Hatcher just missed scoring points as he clocked 9:34.33 in the steeplechase and finished ninth. Sophomore Ian Gardner did pick up six points for CU in the 400-meter dash, coming through in third place. Gardner sprinted 49.65 seconds.

Sophomore Logan Zuchelli, junior Preston Prather and graduate student Samuel Haynes put together three impressive performances in the 10,000-meter run. Zuchelli clocked 31:08.52. Prather stopped the timer at 31:30, and Haynes ran to a showing of 31:44. Those times rank third, fourth and fifth in the Mountain East Conference this season.

Graduate student Cedric Drennen posted the seventh-best time in the MEC in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 14:49.01.
 
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