Schwab places in four events to lead Men's Track & Field at W&L/VMI Carnival

LEXINGTON, Va. — The Ohio Northern men's track & field team competed at the Washington and Lee Track and Field Carnival in Lexington, Va. on March 26 and 27.

This was not a team scored event but the Polar Bears were able to bring home many solid individual efforts at the meet.

Sophomore Jacob Schwab led Northern by placing in the top eight in four separate events on the day. He contributed in two relays that placed first and second and also finished third and eighth in the 400- and 100-meter dashes.

Ohio Northern's greatest success on the day came when senior Joe Amstutz, juniors Ryan Fleming and Evan Heyman, and Schwab won the 4X100-meter relay with a time of 42.02 seconds.

The other relay squad,  the 4X400-meter relay, almost followed suit by finishing in second place by less than a half of a second. Juniors Garrett Brown and Shane Huntley teamed up with Heyman and Schwab once again to run the event in 3:19.19.

Schwab's other two top finishes came in the 100- and 400-meter dashes. He placed third in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.74 and eighth in the 100-meter dash in only 11.20 seconds.

Fellow teammate Fleming finished in third place in this same 100-meter dash in 10.99 seconds.

In the 800-meter run Ohio Northern contributed two in the top eight with a fifth-place finish for sophomore Dan Smith and an eighth-place finish for freshman Ben Ankrom. Smith ran it in 1:56.66 with Ankrom right behind in 1:57.17.

Adding on to their relay successes, Amstutz finished eighth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.89 seconds and Brown finished fifth in the 400-meter hurdles in only 56.45 seconds.

The long distance events also saw many Polar Bear top finishers. Smith placed fifth in the 1,500-meter run in a time of 3:56.94. Senior Alan Bowsher also contributed by finishing sixth in the 5,000-meter run with a 14:55.06 time. Placing eighth, sophomore Tobias Deardorff ran the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:51.77.

In the field events, senior Jacob Weyrauch and junior Timothy Polack lead Ohio Northern with fourth-place finishes. Weyrauch placed in the pole vault with a jump of 14-5.25 and Polack cleared 6-0.75 in the high jump. Junior Joe Gutter also placed eighth in discus throw with a distance of 128-10.

The Ohio Northern men's track and field team will compete next on Friday at the OAC split meet at Wilmington.