Men's Results |
Women's ResultsHoughton, NY – The Falcons traveled to upstate New York this weekend and came away with a number of strong performances—and school records— at the Highlander Multi/Open. In the process Messiah reunited with former assistant coach Patrick Hager, who now works as head coach of the Houghton program.
Drew Engle and
Alyssa Mills gave the Falcons good momentum on Friday when they took leads in the pentathlon and heptathlon, respectively. They would each go on to win their respective multi events, with Engle scoring 4,534 points* and breaking his own school record by two points. In the process he set personal records in both the shot put (10.26m) and high jump (1.81m).
Mills won the pentathlon* with 2,447 points, more than 160 points than her teammate,
Brooke Maneval, who took second.
Jonphilip McGill also set a school record in the 600 meter dash* with a time of 1:24.14. That time ousted the 1:26.90 mark from Eric Bofinger '06 and, impressively,
Phil Headland (1:24.26),
Nathaniel Pardoe (1:24.41), and
Derrick Peterson (1:25.20) all followed after McGill with times that would have set a new College mark.
In the women's 300 meter dash
Tiffany Burrows set the final Messiah record, finishing with a time of 43.54. That time edged the hand-timed mark of 43.4 by Anne Bolt in 1994.
Other notable performances for the Messiah men are below: Nicholas White took first-place in the 60 meter HH (8.48).
Jared Schatz (4:34.94) and
Cameron Shirk (4:24.36) took first- and second-place in the mile, respectively.
Aaron Powell took first-place in the high jump (1.75m).
Tim Moses took first-place in the pole vault* (5.00m).
Other notable performances for the Messiah women are below: Marie Johnson took first-place in both the high jump* (1.60m) and triple jump* (10.69m),
Kaitlyn Hostetler took first-place in the long jump (4.79m).
Rachel Robison took first-place in the pole vault* (3.35m).
* - also denotes facility record for these marks.
