Men's Indoor Track & Field: #22 Ohio Northern (17-3 Overall) hosts Larry Cole Invitational
Saturday, February 27, 2021, 11 am - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
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Saturday's Meet: The Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team will continue its 2021 season on Saturday when they host the second annual Larry Cole Invitational ot the ONU Sports Center ... The meet will be a tri-meet with ONU, Heidelberg and Otterbein competing ... The Polar Bears are ranked No. 22 in the fifth weekly USTFCCCA power rankings this week ... Northern is coming off a victory at the 3-team Capital Rick Meindl Invitational last Saturday ... ONU rallied in the final three events to edge Wilmington 136-128 with Capital in third with 57 ... Sophomore Vini Souza was second in the 200 in :23.78 and freshman David Gross was third in :23.98 while WC finished 5-6 as ONU tied the meet at 117-117 with two events to go ... Freshmen Braden Schaser and Ian Ackenhausen then finished 1-2 in the 3,000 to give ONU a 129-123 lead with one event to go ... Schaser finished in 9:13.95 and Ackerhausen in 9:17.46 ... Senior Jackson Brandstaetter, senior Dylan McKean, freshman Trey Myers and freshman Ian Wallace finished the meet by winning the 4x400 in 3:42.73. Trailing by 20 meters entering the final leg, Wallace ran down Wilmington's anchor to give ONU the victory ... Senior Colin McCullough was a double-winner, taking the 60-meter hurdles in :08.74 and the 400-meter dash in :53.03 ... Junior Andrew Buderer and junior Luke Shellhaas are 1-3 in the OAC in the pole vault with season-best efforts of 4.70 and 4.50 meters, respectively ... Buderer is ranked 6th and Shellhaas is 16th nationally in the event ... Senior Owen Lloyd ranks second in the OAC in the 60 hurdles in :08.56 ... Freshmen Keegan Digby ranks second in the OAC in the shot put (14.81m) and is third in the weight throw (16.40m) ... He is sixth nationally in the weight throw and is ninth nationally in the shot ... Senior Sam Krabacher is second in the OAC in the 800 meters (1:56.11) ... Junior Nate Dean is third in the OAC in the 200 in :22.47.
Head Coach Jason Maus: Maus is in his 11th season as the head men's track and field coach at ONU … He owns a 537-138 overall record indoors, a winning percentage of .796.
