Seven first place finishes highlight Miner showing at home
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| Mike Wilson (left) and Charles Melton |
A total of seven first place finishes highlighted the Missouri S&T men's track and field efforts Saturday at the fourth annual Dewey Allgood Invitational held at S&T's Allgood-Bailey Stadium.
The majority of the first place finishes came in the running events where the Miners got five of their victories. Charles Melton won the 100-meter dash in 11.17 seconds to edge teammate Mike Wilson, but Wilson beat out Melton in the 200-meters with a winning time of 22.63 seconds.
Wilson was second in the 100 in 11.22 after running an 11.08 in the preliminaries, while Melton's runner-up time in the 200 was 22.81 seconds.
The other Miner wins on the track came from Brandon Etzold in the 800-meters in a personal-best time of 1:55.14, Joffroi Holcombe in the 5,000-meters in 15:15.88 and Allen Ernst in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:11.16. The field event wins came from Jordan Henry in the pole vault with a mark of 15-9 3/4 and Kal-El Waters-Jones in the triple jump with a leap of 42-11 1/2.
Second place finishes were posted by Bryan Hogan in the 400-meters in 50.78 seconds, Brendan Smith in the 1,500-meters in 4:06 flat, Peter Hollenbeck in the pole vault at 15-3 3/4, Henry in the long jump at 21-0 3/4, Andrew Moore in the triple jump at 41-8, Josh Hesse in the hammer throw with a mark of 126-10 and Heath Groom in the javelin throw as he posted a throw of 180-4.
Paul Roland claimed third in the 800-meters in 1:55.86, as did Grant Brown in the 1,500-meters in 15:52.94, Chris Thielker in the steeplechase in 10:20.76, Jared Anders in the pole vault at 15-3 3/4, Waters-Jones in the long jump with a mark of 20-7 3/4, Hesse in the shot put with a throw of 48-9 and Lucas Jaster was third in the hammer throw at 125-11 that was his best of the season.
Thomas Green was fourth in the 1,500-meters in 4:10.04 as was Wes Everhart in the javelin throw with a top throw of 152-11, while fifth place finishes came from Mike Renkoski in the 800-meters in 2:00.98 and Hollenbeck in the long jump at 20-1 1/2. The Miners had five of the top seven finishers in the long jump with Anders coming in sixth with a mark of 19-10 3/4 and Moore finishing seventh at 19-8.
The Miners' had a pair of 4x400-meter relay teams that finished second with a time of 3:19.96, finishing a little over a second behind Truman State's team that was anchored by All-America Sean Bergstedt.
Not only did S&T get seven wins from its current competitors Saturday, but two former Miners were also winners in their events while competing as unattached entries. Jamel Sims won the 110-meter hurdles in a time of 14.79 seconds while Jesse Scott won the high jump with a clearance of 6-0 3/4.
The Miners are expected to send selected individuals to the Drake Relays next weekend in Des Moines, Iowa, the final meet before the GLVC Championships that begin May 2 in Indianapolis.