No. 19-ranked Men's Indoor Track & Field finishes second of 10 at OAC Elite Meet
By Tim Glon
The No. 19-ranked Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team finished second of 10 teams with 148 points at the OAC Elite Meet on Sunday at Otterbein and Capital.
The Polar Bears (15-3 overall) got a pair of victories from junior Nate Dean (Euclid/Villa Angela-Saint Joseph), who won the 200-meter dash in :22.47 and was on the winning 4x200 relay team.
Northern opened the meet by winning the 4x200 relay as sophomore Hunter Kesler (Oakwood/Paulding), Dean, sophomore Branden Kudlubowski (Fremont/St. Joseph) and sophomore Brandon Berry (Wickliffe) finished in 1:32.93.
Dean and Berry each placed in the 60-meter dash. Dean was third in :07.04 and Berry was sixth in a career-best :07.17.
Senior Owen Lloyd (Colfax, Ind./Clinton Prairie) won the 60-meter hurdles in 8.56 seconds, leading a 1-5-7 ONU finish in the event. Senior Colin McCullough (Galion) was fifth in 8.72 and sophomore Selorm Adehe (Grove City/Central Crossing) was seventh in :08.84.
Lloyd was also eighth in the high jump by clearing 1.86 meters.
Junior Andrew Buderer (Oak Harbor) won the pole vault by clearing 4.70 meters to remain undefeated on the season with victories in all four meets. Sophomore Brandt Marshall (Bluffton/Cory-Rawson) was fifth and junior Luke Shellhaas (Greenville/Versailles) was sixth in the event with both men clearing 3.95 meters.
The distance medley relay team of senior Dylan McKean (Warren/Champion), sophomore Vini Souza (Spencerville), senior Jackson Brandstaetter (Pickerington/North) and freshman Ian Ackenhausen (Xenia/Legace Christian Academy) won in 11:00.15.
Senior Sam Krabacher (Hamilton/Badin) was second in the 800 in 1:56.11, followed by freshman Trey Myers (Dayton/Chaminade-Julienne) in fifth in 2:00.48.
Freshmen Keegan Digby (Bowling Green/Otsego) placed second in the shot put with a toss of 14.81 meters and was eighth in the weight throw at 15.32 meters.
Kesler was third in the 400 dash in :51.69 and was fifth in the 200 in :23.30.
Freshman Gabe Hensley (Lebanon) and McCullough placed in the long jump as Hensley was third (6.25 meters) and McCullough was seventh (6.11 meters).
Senior Alex Sube (Wadsworth/Highland) was fourth in the weight throw with a toss of 15.73 meters.
Sophomore Billy Driemeyer (House Springs, Mo./Lindbergh) was fourth in the 3,000 run in 8:46.09.
Senior Alex Sube (Wadsworth/Highland) was fourth in the weight throw with a toss of 15.73 meters.
Junior Patrick Baker (Massillon/Jackson) was fifth in the 5,000 run in 15:25.72.
Sophomore Brooks Blakeley (Versailles) was fifth in the mile run in 4:34.19 and freshman Braden Schaser (Fostoria/Lakota) was eighth in the event in 4:38.48.
Freshman David Gross (Prospect/Pleasant Local) was sixth in the 500 1:09.92.
McCullough, Kadlubowski, freshman Tyler St. Onge (Litchfield, N.H./Campbell) and Gross finished second in the 4x400 relay in 3:35.01.
In all, Ohio Northern won five of the 19 events.
No. 7-ranked Mount Union won the meet with 231 points, No. 5-ranked John Carroll was third with 109 points, Otterbein was fourth with 104 points, Heidelberg was fifth with 28, No. 18 Capital and Wilmington tied for sixth with 26 points, Muskingum was eighth with 23 points, Baldwin Wallace was ninth with 16 points and Marietta was 10th with 4 points.
The majority of the meet was held at Otterbein, with throws and the pole vault events contested at Capital.
The Polar Bears will return to action next Sunday at a tri-meet at Capital with Wilmington.