The Muhlenberg track and field teams opened their indoor season by sending athletes to meets at Lehigh and Franklin & Marshall.

All told, the Mules combined for 17 Centennial Conference qualifiers, five all-time top 10 performances, two regional qualifiers and one first-place finish.

That first-place finish was by junior Sam Morgan, the 2019 CC outdoor champion in the 800 meters. He started off his indoor season in fine form, winning the 800 and F&M's Coach I Open by more than three seconds.

Senior Jason Richwall, coming off a cross country season in which he qualified for the NCAA Championships, ran the second-fastest 5,000 meters in program history at F&M. His time of 15:08.07 was more than eight seconds faster than the previous second-place time and qualified him for the regional meet.

Closer to home at Lehigh, junior Emily Mitchell also posted a regional-qualifying mark while coming in second in the long jump. Mitchell (pictured above left) hit the sand at 17-5¼, two inches better than her previous personal record.

Two Muhlenberg men placed in the triple jump, with junior Cameron Ford jumping a personal-best 43-2¼ and freshman John Panny landing at 42-9 in his collegiate debut. Panny entered the performance list in seventh place, just behind Ford.

Another Ford, sophomore Jarred Ford (pictured above right), cleared a personal-best 12-11½ in the pole vault to move into a tie for ninth on the all-time performance list.

Junior Alana Noehrenberg tied for fourth in the high jump, and sophomore Adebisi Adetoye ran the 200 meters in 27.49, just six hundredths of a second from cracking the performance list, in her Mule debut.

complete results: F&M | Lehigh