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Men's T&F Surges to Second at Indoor Champs

Men's T&F Surges to Second at Indoor Champs

LANCASTER, Pa. – That Johns Hopkins would capture another Centennial Conference indoor track and field championship was a foregone conclusion. Over two days at Franklin & Marshall, Ursinus made a decisive statement: the Bears are the best of the rest.

Ursinus racked up 10 medals in a sensational Sunday in Lancaster, cruising into second place for its first runner-up finish at the indoor championships since 2011. The Bears set a program record with 139 team points, a full 42 clear of Dickinson in third place and more than enough for the fourth runner-up performance in team history.

Griffin McMann (shot put) and the 4x400-meter relay team each grabbed gold for the Bears, while Tyler Reilly picked up three total medals.

McMann picked a perfect time for a personal best, unleashing a toss of 49-7.75 to claim shot put gold and headline a parade of place-winners for the throwing squad. McMann, who won gold in the weight throw a day earlier, was one of five top-8 performers for Ursinus, which boasted a second medalist in third-place Nick Galbraith (44-8.75). Matthew Byrnes was fifth with a career-best 42-8.75, Pat Patterson-Zuber took seventh with a PR of his own (41-9.25), and George Psaradakis easily surpassed his previous PR to finish eighth at 40-3.25.

The Bears were similarly dominant in the sprints. Octavious Carter set a program record with a second-place surge in the 60-meter dash, finishing in 7.02 seconds to edge Jequan Mitchell's mark of 7.04 from 2016. Aviv Hogan Appell placed fourth with a career-best 7.06, just a hundredth of a second behind Johns Hopkins' Matthew Su in third.

Payton Stanziani (51.41 seconds) and Reilly (51.59) finished second and third, respectively, in the 400-meter dash. Reilly also won bronze in the 200 (22.98), where Hogan Appell (22.90) was runner-up and Carter fourth (23.27).

Daniel Maloney secured silver in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.61 seconds.

Zach Crebbin won silver in the high jump, adding over an inch to his personal best after clearing 6-6.00. The sophomore also placed fourth in the long jump at 21-2.00.

Andre Kelly was fifth in the 800 (1:57.75).

Brody Johnson placed sixth in the heptathlon with a cumulative tally of 3,404 points.

The Bears put the perfect bow on an unforgettable weekend by defending their gold medal in the 4x400-meter relay as Reilly led off for Dylan Simms, Stanziani, and Kelly blazed their way to a clocking of 3:25.74, nearly two seconds clear of McDaniel's runner-up unit.

Ursinus finished with four golds, five silvers, and three bronzes for the championships.