Results
NEW CONCORD, Ohio – The Concord University men's track & field team finished seventh at the Muskie Meet hosted by Muskingum University at the Bullock Complex Saturday.
The Mountain Lions recorded 38 points in the meet. Ohio Northern won the meet with 199 points. There were 15 teams in competition.
Ten of Concord's points came from senior
Ethan Board in the 500-meter dash as he won the event in a time of 1:08.67. Also, in the event was freshman
Tobi Adebulu who placed 18th, crossing the tape in 1:18.68.
CU received points from sophomore
Braden Ward in the 800-meter dash as he stopped the timer at 2:00:69, good enough for third. Ward also placed third in the mile run as he clocked 4:30.79. Other top finishers for Concord in the 800-meters were sophomore
AJ Skeens (15
th/2:08.42), sophomore
Bramley Childress (17
th/2:08.66), senior
Zach Wilson (18
th/2:09.05) and sophomore
Andrew Tickle (20
th/2:09.44).
Some of the same faces were clutch in the mile as well. Tickle (12
th) ran 4:36.53, Childress (13
th) came through in 4:36.63, Skeens (17
th) posted a time of 4:40.65 and Wilson (18
th) sported a showing of 4:41.10.
Senior
Logan Zuchelli finished fourth in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 8:46.67. Sophomore
Garrett Hatcher came through in 9:11.60 which was 11th while freshman
Brandon Canaday placed 18
th in 9:28.13.
Concord had two top-eight finishers in the 1,000-meter run. Junior
Alex Irvin posted a time of 2:54.07 as he finished fifth. And sophomore
Wes Holcomb was eighth in a time of 3:04.76.
The Mountain Lions' 4x400-meter relay team of Board and the freshmen trio of
Landon Meredith,
Aaron Miller and
Brady Prior placed fifth in 3:39.43.
Prior sprinted 23.48 seconds in the 200-meter dash to finish ninth.
NOTE: Senior
Ian Gardner broke the indoor school record in the 300-meter dash at Virginia Tech Friday night. He ran 35.41 seconds which was eclipsed the previous record set by Dewayne Smith at 35.49 seconds in 2022.
The Mountain Lions are back in action when they travel to Roanoke College's Bast Cregger Invite January 31-February 1.
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