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Men's Track and Field Takes Three Titles at Penn Challenge
March 25, 2017 | Men's Track and Field
The Tigers posted 13 top-six finishes across the 12 events in which Princeton had a competitor, but Penn took the team title at the 19-event competition with 162 points. Army West Point was the runner-up with 134 with Connecticut third at 99 points and Princeton fourth at 83 in the seven-team event.
Daniels' hurdles title came in 14.46 seconds, outdoing runner-up Nate Bowie from Rider by 17 hundredths of a second. Freeman won the 400 in 48.02 seconds, two tenths of a second better than Tyrell Maddox from Army West Point, and the Freeman-anchored 4x400 team won in 3:20.68, 1.76 seconds in front of Connecticut.
Princeton also had four runner-up finishes. Charles Volker, Joseph Daniels, Josh Billington and John Colangelo finished second in the 4x100 in 42.22 seconds, 1.52 seconds back of Army West Point. Volker was the runner-up in the 100 in 10.94 seconds, 37 hundredths of a second behind Ben Sims from Army West Point. Greg Leeper took second in the 400 hurdles in 52.94 seconds, 12 hundredths of a second behind Penn's Anthony Okolo, and Jared Bell was second in the discus with a top throw of 167-4 (51m), 10 1/2 feet (3.2m) behind Penn's Noah Kennedy-White.
Princeton's results are below and full results are available here. Princeton will compete next at the Colonial Relays hosted by William & Mary beginning Thursday.
4x100
2. Charles Volker, Joseph Daniels, Josh Billington, John Colangelo, 42.22
110 Hurdles
1. Joseph Daniels, 14.46
8. Ryan Ozminkowski, 16.50
12. Justice Dixon, 16.82
400
1. Joshua Freeman, 48.02
7. Connor Matthews, 49.91
8. Cole Bransford, 50.02
100
2. Charles Volker, 10.94
4. John Colangelo, 11.10
6. Josh Billington, 11.19
14. Daniel Afolabi, 11.80
400 Hurdles
2. Greg Leeper, 52.94
200
11. Brent Albertson, 22.83
4x400
1. Michael Zupko, Cole Bransford, Connor Matthews, Joshua Freeman, 3:20.68
High Jump
4. Andrew Diehl, 6-8 3/4
10. Luqman Issah, 6-2 3/4
Pole Vault
5. Ben Gaylord, 4.75m/15-7
Long Jump
18. Justice Dixon, 5.96m/19-6 3/4
22. Ryan Ozminkowski, 5.62m/18-5 1/4
Discus
2. Jared Bell, 51.00m/167-4
4. Mitchel Charles, 49.08/161-0
7. Chris Cook, 47.22m/154-11
Hammer
4. Gabe Arcaro, 55.43m/181-10
5. Vic Youn, 53.67/176-1