Highland Heights, Kentucky – On Saturday, April 13
th, the Mount St. Joseph University Track & Field Team traveled to Northern Kentucky University to participate in the Northern Kentucky University Invitational. Out of 8 teams competing in the meet, the men's team finished 1
st overall, and the women's team placed 6
th. Along with this, Mount St. Joseph University was the only Division 3 institution competing in the invitational over the weekend.
Starting with the 1
st place men's team, the field events carried the way for the Lions. In the throwing events,
Camden King and
Matt Obert finished 5
th and 6
th overall with distances of 10.76M and 10.48M.
Matt Obert also had a personal best performance with his 10.48M throw. Moving along to discus,
Camden King also placed 5
th overall in this event with a personal best throw of 30.41M.
Kaleb Fitzgerald and Aiden Riffle also placed 7
th and 8
th in discus with final marks of 27.98M and 22.11M. In the javelin throw, the Lions had 4 top 8 performances from
Dylan Sebastian,
Jack Tucker,
Matt Obert, and
Jasper Damewood.
Dylan Sebastian finished 3
rd with a mark of 40.96M,
Jack Tucker finished 4
th with a throw of 39.11M,
Matt Obert placed 6
th with a distance of 34.20M, and
Jasper Damewood placed 7
th with a mark of 32.71M. In the jumping events,
Dylan Hammons placed in both the long jump and triple jump. Hammons placed 3
rd in the long jump with a jump of 5.54M and 2
nd in triple jump with a mark of 11.36M.
DeAndre Cowen also placed 5
th in high jump with a final mark of 1.70M.
In the men's running events, the Lions had 3 top 8 performaces in the 100-meter dash.
Kyle Evers Smith finished in 3
rdplace with a final time of 11.01 seconds.
Diego Yun followed shortly after in 4
th place with a personal best performance of 11.24 seconds.
Jalen Range finished out the impressive Lions' performances with a 6
th place finish in the 100 with a time of 11.34 seconds.
Alex Schmidt also capitalized on his 3000-steeplechase record at MSJ with a 1
st place finish and a personal best time of 10:17.38.
Diego Yun also placed 1
st in the 200-meter dash with a personal best time of 22.51 seconds, and
Kyle Evers Smith placed 6
th with a time of 23.05 seconds.
Looking at the women's field events,
Asia Branch had an impressive showing with 2
nd and 3
rd place finishes in the shotput and discus events. Branch had marks of 10.69M in shotput and 33.13M in discus.
Jill Wilhelm also had great performances finishing 4
th and 2
nd in discus and javelin. Wilhelm's final distances were 33.03M in discus and 37.56M in the javelin throw. Sticking with the javelin throw,
Madalyn Hudnall finished in 1
st place with a personal best performance of 38.63M.
Sienna Slaughter also competed in both discus and javelin finishing in 8
th in both events with final marks of 27.56M and 23.75M. Looking at the jumping events,
Grace Kruthaupt place 8
th in the high jump with a height of 1.40M.
And last but not least,
Grace Kruthaupt was the only women's individual top 8 performance with a personal best performance in the 100 hurdles. Kruthaupt finished in 4
th place overall with a time of 16.41 seconds.
UP NEXT: This coming weekend, the Lions will travel to Ohio Northern University to participate in the Mike Becraft Invitational. The meet takes place on April 19
th and 20
th, and you can stay up to date with results at msjlions.com.
