Complete Results

CARLISLE, Pa. – The Gettysburg College men's track and field team registered a strong performance in its first outdoor meet of the season, winning six events en route to a close second-place showing at the 70th Little Three Meet on Saturday at Dickinson College.
 
The Bullets finished with a team score of 135, just five points behind meet winner Dickinson. Franklin & Marshall College placed third with 106 points.
 
The annual triangular meet – one of the oldest of its kind in Division III – was also held for the 41st time on the women's side, with Dickinson (142) battling out Gettysburg (123) for the title.
 
Senior Ty Abdul-Karim (Washington, D.C./Woodberry Forest [Va.]) led the way for the Orange and Blue, winning both the 100-meter dash (11.26) and the 200-meter dash (23.04) while competing in his first track meet since 2015.
 
A pair of freshmen led the Bullets to a 1-2-3 sweep in both hurdle events. In the 110-meter hurdles, first-year Matt Simmers (Franklin Lakes, N.J./Indian Hills) broke the tape in 17.18 seconds and was followed by sophomore Orrin Wilson (Hummelstown, Pa./Hershey) and freshman Nicholas Grissinger (Palmyra, Pa./Milton Hershey), who posted times of 18.12 and 18.57, respectively. Grissinger also won the 400-meter hurdles in 1:01.46 while senior Bobby Weisensee (Clark, N.J./Arthur L. Johnson) was second in 1:03.02. Simmers capped the sweep in 1:03.42.
 
Gettysburg also earned a pair of victories in the jumps. Sophomore Ken Barnes (Edison, N.J./Westminster School [Conn.]) won by a foot in the long jump, soaring 20-11 3/4 , while junior Joe Amadio (Pittsburgh, Pa./Keystone Oaks) prevailed in the triple jump (39-7 3/4).
 
Senior Ryan Thompson (Oakland, N.J./Indian Hills) took second in both the long jump (19-11 3/4) and triple jump (38-9) while junior Thad Cwiklinski (Glen Rock, Pa./York Catholic) (400-meter dash, 55.19), sophomore Aren Heitmann (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) (3,000-meter steeplechase, 10:06.10), and sophomore Nate Trinidad Doherty (Frederick, Md./Governor Thomas Johnson) (javelin, 133-11) notched one second-place finish apiece.
 
Gettysburg returns to action next Saturday, when it travels to the Ursinus Invitational.