Results
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Concord University men's track & field team is in eighth place after the first day of the Mountain East Conference Indoor Championships at the Cline Indoor Track Complex on the campus of Marshall University.
Five events had their final Sunday evening.
The Mountain Lions scored nine points, but is just 13 points out of the top five. Charleston leads the meet with 42 points
Scoring points individually in the 5,000-meter run was senior
Logan Zuchelli who finished fifth with a time of 14:55.23 and sophomore
Braden Ward who placed seventh with a time of 14:56.65, a career-best time for the Princeton, West Virginia.
Junior
Alex Irvin also ran a personal-best time of 15:31.17 as he placed 14
th.
CU's distance medley tallied three points with a sixth-place showing. The foursome of senior
Ethan Board, freshman
Garrett Kinder, freshman
Brady Prior and Ward combined to run 10:19.65.
Freshman
Luke Davis takes a 117-point lead into the final three events of the heptathlon Monday. Davis has scored 2,520 points through four events, holding an edge on Glenville State's Aaron Kupfner and a 121-point lead on Frostburg State's Blake Stevens.
Among the highlights for Davis was scoring 759 points in the 60-meter dash (7.36 seconds), tallying 677 points in the long jump (6.41 meters) and racking up 619 points in the high jump (1.79 meters). He also had 465 points in the shot put.
The final three events Monday will be the 60-meter hurdles, pole vault and 1,000-meter run.
Davis just missed scoring in the individual long jump with a mark of 6.48 meters and a ninth-place finish.
Senior
Ian Gardner and Prior both qualified for Monday's 400-meter dash final. Gardner clocked the second-fastest time of 49.84 seconds as he won his heat. Prior placed seventh in the prelims in a showing of 50.46 seconds.
Action begins at 12:00 p.m. Monday for field events and 4:10 p.m. for running event finals.
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