RIPON, Wis. – The Milwaukee men's track and field team placed second at the Red Hawk Invite hosted by Ripon on Saturday, recording several strong results in the process.
The Panthers finished second with 120 points, placing behind UW-Oshkosh, who won the meet with a total of 201 points. MSOE was third with 65 points.
The team posted impressive results in the 60m hurdles, with
Sam Conger leading the way with a personal best time of 8.00 seconds. After setting a new personal best a week ago, the senior improved his time again in the first-place finish.
Austin Wallace finished second in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.09 seconds while Dan Nelson made his season debut and placed third at 8.41 seconds.
"Feel both teams continue to take great steps forward as we inch closer to conference championships," head coach
Andrew Basler said. "We had a lot of good performances today, just kind of setting ourselves up to do well in three weeks at conference."
In the 60m,
Golden Cotton crossed the line first with an impressive time of 6.89 seconds, just shy of his season best.
Anthony Kessler placed fourth in the event at 7.03 seconds.
Evan Bartelsen leapt to a season best in the pole vault at 4.70m to finish in second place.
Dylan Sieloff jumped to 4.55m to come in at fourth.
"The pole vault kind of stole the show," Basler said. "
Evan Bartelsen, our freshman, jumped really well. He has been breaking down his technique and rebuilding it and it is starting to pay off."
Hunter Krepline and
Jack Fitzgerald posted solid times in the 800m, with Krepline placing second at 1:55.94. Fitzgerald was right on his heels, finishing third at 1:56.94.
Caleb Anderson (51.09) and
Ben Marano (51.61) finished back-to-back in the 400m, tallying third- and fourth-place marks.
In the shot put,
Gracien Jules posted a third-place finish behind a throw of 17.12m while
Caleb Rogalski was fourth at 16.39m.
Milwaukee will split the team next weekend, with some team members heading to the Friday Big Meet hosted by Grand Valley State while others compete at Hoosier Hills hosted by Indiana. The Friday Big Meet will begin at 10 a.m. with the Hoosier Hills scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
"We look forward to splitting the squad up, sending our sprinters, hurdlers, and distance to Grand Valley State to get on a 300m track and our field athletes heading down to Indiana," Basler said. "Looking forward to continuing to push these marks as conference is fast approaching."
