4x100 Sets Meet Record and Tigers Win Seven Events at Sam Howell

Saturday, April 6

Princeton, N.J.

Princeton University

Sam Howell Invitational

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

4x100 Sets Meet Record and Tigers Win Seven Events at Sam Howell

April 06, 2019 | Men's Track and Field

Results

The 4x100 set the tone for the Sam Howell Invitational as the relay opened with a meet record as the Tigers continued to pour on the wins and personal bests this afternoon at Weaver Stadium.

The 4x100 of Simang'aliso Ndhlovu, Greg Sholars, Austin Carbone and Joey Daniels posted a meet record time of 40.80. None of them were done yet.

Ndhlovu went on to claim the win in the 100 with a PR of 10.64, while Carbone was fourth at 10.80 and junior Joseph McGrath fifth at 10.96.

Sholars, Carbone and Ndhlovu all clocked PRs in the 200 with Sholars leading the way in third place with a 21.74. Carbone was sixth at 21.85 and Ndhlovu eighth at 21.90.

Princeton qualified all three of its 110-meter hurdles ot the finals with Daniels and freshman Taraje Whitfield putting up the fastest two times in the prelims at 13.94 and 14.75. Daniels went on to win at 13.84, just off of his PR of 13.80, while Whitfield was second with at new PR of 14.61. Whitfield was also the runner-up in the intermediate hurdles with a PR of 52.52, making the Princeton top-10 list at No. 7.

Another Tiger pulling a double was senior Jeremy Spiezio. He won the unseeded 1500 at 3:53.22 (47.63, 1:04.40, 1:03.72, 57.48). He steadily climbed the field as he was in fifth place at 300 meters, fourth at 700 and second with one lap to go. An hour later he was it again, taking second place in the 800 at 1:55.08 (55.56, 59.52). Sophomore Cole Sandvold was ninth at 1:57.24.

The middle distance keeps things strong in the seeded second of the 1500 later in the day. Sophomore Sam Ellis was fifth in the 1500 with a PR of 3:46.63 (46.58, 1:00.97, 1:00.75, 58.24). He was in 11th place at 300 meters and moved into ninth place at 1100 meters before gaining four more positions on the final lap. Junior Conor Lundy was eighth with a PR of 3:50.52 (46.24, 1:04.20, 1:02.86, 57.24).

Princeton's field athletes matched the efforts inside the oval.

Freshman Chandler Ault began the day with a win in the javelin at 64.04 (210-1), the winning mark coming on his second attempt. He also had throws of 63.68, 63.28, 63.12 and 62.51. This is just is second time throwing the collegiate javelin, as he put up a 65.03 in his first meet two weeks ago in Florida.

In the long jump, junior Jesse Thibodeau came out on top with a jump of 7.37 (24-2.25) on his final attempt. He was over 7 meters on every jump starting with a 7.33, finding 7.31, 7.27, 7.30 before his sixth attempt. All five of his jumps would have won him the event with the second-place competitor reaching 6.98. Thibodeau was third in this event this past indoor Heps with a PR of 7.46.

Princeton went 1-2-4 in the high jump with sophomore Jeffrey Hollis leading the charge with a 2.12 (6-11.5) clearing the height on his second attempt. Senior Andrew Diehl was the runner-up as he was up and over 2.03 (6-8) on his first try and sophomore Jeffrey Lee-Heidenreich tied for fourth place with a mark of 1.98 (6-6).

Sophomore Kelton Chastulik was third in the Shot Put A final launching a 17.96 (58-11.25) on his second attempt. All five of his countable throws were over 54 feet (16.54, 17.68, 17.50, 17.19) It was a new PR breaking his previous best of 17.76 that he threw on March 21 at UNF and is now sixth on Prineton's top-10 list.

It was another battle between Princeton senior Adam Kelly and Rudy Winkler in the hammer throw. Winkler who began his collegiate career at Cornell, ended it at Rutgers and competed in the Rio Olympics, won the event as an unattached athlete with a 74.83 (245-6). A two-time All-American in the hammer, Kelly took second place with a 71.34 (234-1) coming on his second attempt. He was over 70 meters on his final two attempts as well, coming close to his PR of 71.92.

Closing out the throws was sophomore Robbie Otal in the discus. He took fourth with a 52.11 (170-11) hitting the mark on his first attempt and went on toe record throws of 52.03, 51.43, 50.57, 50.03. All of his throws were close to his PR of 52.78, which he threw at last spring's Ivy Heps to take second place.

Two third-place showings came from freshmen as Dayo Abeeb jumped 14.75 (48-4.75) on his second attempt in the triple and Will Drury reached 4.86 (15-11.25) in the pole vault.

The Tigers ended the meet with a strong 1-2 performance in the 10k. Junior Viraj Deokar won with his first sub-30 time of 29:34.18. Freshman Jakob Kintzele posted a 30:14.37 for second place.