GRANTHAM, Pa.— Eastern University Men's Track and Field set three program records and delivered several other strong performances in a solid weekend of activity in Central Pennsylvania.
Early on, the sprinters stole the show with a program and Starry Field facility record in the 4x 100 Meters. The Eagles got the baton around the loop at Messiah in 41.73 seconds. That time beat the mark from last year's MAC Championships by over two tenths of a second.
Brock Brunson,
Jason Bateman,
Josiah Cureton, and
Jahari Brown earned the win with a National top-50 time.
Brown and Bateman made the finals in the 100 Meters. Brown ran a wind-aided 10.73 in the preliminaries and came back with a wind-legal 10.71 for a second-place finish in the final. Bateman shaved two o-one-hundredths of his best time. with a 10.96. Brown also finished second in the 200 Meters.
The Eagles took the top two spots in the 110 High Hurdles.
Keyon Jones set a new program record with a wind-legal 14.51 to win.
Ian Hopkins was just off his shoulder with a personal-best 14.72. Jones also finished second in the High Jump with a 1.92 Meter Jump.
Eastern also sent a crew of middle-distance runners to Bucknell.
Ryle Mellinger ran a 60-second closing lap to finish in 3:58.89 and better his time from one year ago today by over a second. He is the only Eastern runner to go sub-4 minutes in the 1500.
Robert Walton ran a 1:54.13 800 Meters and
Joshua Knox-Wagner came home in 1:57.83 in the same event.
In the field, the Eagles had solid performances in each of the throws, and
Elijah McCullough finished tenth in the Long Jump.
The 4 x 400 Meter Relay squad of
Edward Sylve, Shamar Davis,
Keyon Jones and
Christian Scales finished second in a solid early-season time of 3:25.46.
The Eagles are at Widener next weekend.
