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The Johnnie track and field team is scheduled to race in six mid-distance/distance events at Division I Minnesota’s Gopher Classic at 10 a.m. this Saturday, Feb. 7, in Minneapolis. – Live Results
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Field Events
10:00 a.m.: Pole Vault (M/W)
11:00: High Jump (M/W), Long Jump (M & W simultaneously), Weight Throw (M/W)
2:00 p.m.: Triple Jump (M & W simultaneously)
2:15: Shot Put (M/W)
Track Events
11:30 a.m.: Mile Run (M/W)
12:10 p.m.: 600 Meters (M/W)
12:30: 60-Meter Dash – Prelims (M/W)
1:15: 60-Meter Hurdles – Prelims (M/W)
1:40: 400-Meter Dash (M/W)
2:15: 60-Meter Hurdles – Final (W/M)
2:35: 60-Meter Dash – Final (M/W)
2:45: 800 Meters (M/W)
3:10: 200-Meter Dash (M/W)
3:55: 3,000 Meters (M/W)
4:50: 4×400-Meter Relay (M/W)
A LOOK AT THE JOHNNIES: Saint John’s finished second out of three teams at its invitational last Friday (Jan. 30) in Collegeville. Bethel took first place with 155 points, while SJU took second (136) and Northwestern was third (3). The Johnnies won seven events and registered 28 top-five marks/times.
SJU recorded the top-three times in the 1,000 meters, led by junior Cole Stencel’s (Mapleton, Minn./Maple River) 2:32.90 for first place. Senior Nick St. Peter (Maple Grove, Minn.) was next in second (2:33.24), senior Owen Montreuil (Jordan, Minn.) was third (2:33.59) and junior Max McCoy (Bennington, Neb./Mount Michael Benedictine) was fifth (2:40.99).
Sophomore Grady Minnerath (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori) won the shot put with a personal-best toss of 15.34 meters and also took fifth in the weight throw with a distance of 13.70 meters, just behind classmate Jalen Graham (Minneapolis, Minn./Champlin Park) in fourth (13.72 meters).
Freshman Aiden Jones (Pierz, Minn.) and junior Kieran Murnan (Lakeville, Minn./Holy Angels) went 1 (7.00)-2 (7.03) in the 60-meter dash. Senior Abdul Sesay (St. Paul, Minn./Harding) and sophomore Anthony Ferrante (Prior Lake, Minn.) followed in fourth (7.14) and fifth (7.16), respectively, and Woody Bien-Aime was just outside the top five by 0.01 (7.17). Jones also claimed second in the 200-meter dash (22.79) and sophomore Andy White (Sioux Falls, S.D./O’Gorman) was fifth (23.31).
Sophomore Bailey Evans (Breckenridge, Minn.) won the long jump with a mark of 6.07 meters and recorded the fastest time during the 60-meter dash prelims – 7.04 seconds – but did not compete in the final.
Junior Bangaly Kaba (St. Cloud, Minn./Apollo) uncontested in the triple jump (12.81 meters) and freshman Raegan Lopez (Lakeville, Minn./North) won the 3,000 meters in 9:33.82. Two other freshmen, Ian Mills (Glenwood, Minn./Minnewaska Area) and John Steines (St. Paul, Minn./DeLaSalle), were third (9:37.08) and fourth (9:43.92), respectively.
Junior Cooper Smith (Alvarado, Minn./East Grand Forks) and sophomore Zander Olmschenk (Sauk Centre, Minn.) were second (1:26.64) and third (1:27.86) in the 600 meters, while junior Connor O’Brien (1.80 meters; Belle Plaine, Minn.) and freshman Josh Pretasky (1.55 meters; Chanhassen, Minn./Minnetonka) competed uncontested in the high jump.
Junior Noah Besemann (New Brighton, Minn./Irondale) claimed second in both the long jump (5.76 meters) and the pole vault (4.12 meters), and junior Wyatt Witschen (Monticello, Minn.) finished third in the 400-meter dash (51.38).
SJU’s 4×400-meter relay (Witschen, St. Peter, Ryan Becker, McCoy) was second (3:31.92) and a pair of underclassmen earned fourth-place times on the track: freshman Trae Headlee (Billings, Mont./Skyview) in the 60-meter hurdles (8.79) and sophomore Nate Rohrer (St. Paul, Minn./Two Rivers) in the long jump (5.57 meters).
WHO WILL BE THERE: The Johnnies and host Gophers are scheduled to be joined Saturday on the men’s side by Augsburg, Carleton, Division II Concordia-St. Paul, Macalester, Minnesota Club, Minnesota-Morris, Division II MSU-Mankato, St. Olaf, Division I St. Thomas, NAIA Viterbo (Wis.) and Wisconsin-Stout.
IN THE MIAC: The Johnnies currently boast 22 top-10 marks/times in the MIAC.
60-Meter Dash
3. Aiden Jones, 7.00
4. Kieran Murnan, 7.03
5. Bailey Evans, 7.04
10. Hunter Mohr, 7.10
200-Meter Dash
5. Aiden Jones, 22.79
400-Meter Dash
6. Cooper Smith, 50.98
8. Wyatt Witschen, 51.38
10. Owen Montreuil, 51.51
10,000 Meters
4. Cole Stencel, 2:32.90
7. Nick St. Peter, 2:33.24
9. Owen Montreuil, 2:33.59
Mile
4. Cole Stencel, 4:22.07
10. Lars Molenkamp, 4:26.16
60-Meter Hurdles
6. Bashir Amoud, 8.58
10. Trae Headlee, 8.79
High Jump
10. Connor O’Brien, 1.80m
Pole Vault
t5. Alex Chirhart, 4.30m
t5. Kole Guth, 4.30m
t5. Austin Mohr, 4.30m
10. Noah Besemann, 4.12m
Triple Jump
7. Bangaly Kaba, 12.82m
Shot Put
3. Grady Minnerath, 15.34m
