Results
LANCASTER, Pa. – Junior
Nicholas Grissinger (Palmyra, Pa./Milton Hershey) and sophomore
Stephen Kostohryz (Norwalk, Conn./Brien McMahon) both placed in the top-six to lead the Gettysburg College men's track and field team on the opening day of the Centennial Conference Indoor Track & Field Championship on Saturday, which is hosted by Franklin & Marshall College.
Gettysburg's Top Performers
- Pole Vault – 5th (13-02.25 – Ninth in program history)
- Weight Throw – 6th (40-02.75 4th in program history)
- Fredrick Tubula '22 (Narok, Kenya/Friends Select School)
- Triple Jump – 7th (41-04.25)
- Sam Sheldon '20 (Tully, N.Y./Tully)
- 5,000-Meter Run – 8th (15:31.16)
Meet Highlights
- Grissinger leaped into ninth all-time in the pole vault to place fifth in the event with a mark of 13-02.25.
- Kostohryz claimed sixth in the weight throw, tossing 40-02.75 to move into fourth all-time in program history.
- Sheldon raced to an eighth place showing in the 5,000-meter run, clocking 15:31.16 out of 31 competitors.
- In the preliminaries, junior Matt Simmers (Franklin Lakes, N.J./Indian Hills) set a new personal-record and stays eighth all-time in indoor history in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.29 seconds.
- The distance medley relay members of sophomore William Hopkins (Raleight, N.C./Needham B. Broughton), freshman Caden Giordano (Bethlehem, Pa./Bethlehem Catholic), and junior Dylan McKeever (Furlong, Pa./Central Bucks East) logged in seventh-place on a way to rank ninth best in program history with a 10:44.03 time.
- Gettysburg finished ninth in the 4x200-meter relay. The team of junior Colin Motill (Ridgefield, Comm./Ridgefield), senior Dylan O'Neil (Brownstown, Pa./Conestoga Valley), Tubula, and senior Ezekiel Omosanya (Lagos, Nigeria/Northfield Mount Hermon [Mass.]) posted a time of 1:37.96.
- The Bullets current rank seventh out of nine teams with 12 points.
Coming Up
Action resumes on Sunday back at Franklin & Marshall starting at 11 a.m.
