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Kruer, Hinton win events in OAC Split meet

Posted: Jan 23, 2016

BEXLEY – The Wilmington College men's track and field team finished second in the four-team Ohio Athletic Conference South split meet held at Capital University Saturday.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Wilmington won two events Saturday as freshman Gino Hinton (Maple Heights, OH/Maple Heights) won the 60 meter dash (7.13) and junior Zak Kruer (Miamisburg, OH/Miamisburg) was victorious in the pole vault (4.3 meters).
Sophomore Pierce Burnam (New Richmond, OH/New Richmond) had second-place finishes in the 60-meter hurdles (8.86) and triple jump (12.63). He was third in the 400 (54.00).
Sophomore Kalvin Butts (St. John's, MI/St. John's) was third in the weight throw (14.68) and the fourth in the shot put (12.54). Freshman Ethan Hurtt (Frankfort, OH/Adena) was fourth in the weight throw (14.52).
Sophomores Griffin Stith (Batavia, OH/Batavia) and Hunter Stith (Batavia, OH/Batavia) were second and third, respectively, in the 3000 meters with the times of 9:35.66 and 9:40.03. The twins teamed with freshmen Rick Pride (Mount Orab, OH/Western Brown) and Elliott Phillimore (Old Fort, OH/Old Fort) to place second in the distance medley relay (11:16.77).
Pride added a third place finish in the 5000 (16:56.48), while senior Dominic King (Bettsville, OH/Bettsville) was second (16:52.49) in the event.
Senior Antone Truss (Yellow Springs, OH/Yellow Springs) was second in the high jump (1.90) and fourth in the triple jump (11.72), while senior Leevi Stump (Mount Vernon, OH/Mount Vernon) was third in the triple jump (12.3) and third in the long jump (6.22).

QUOTES

"I thought the men's team showed significant improvement since last week," said Wilmington head coach Ron Combs. "I was really happy with the way our guys competed today. We had a very strong start in the field events which gave us some momentum that we rode for the rest of the meet. I'm happy we have next week off, so hopefully we can get some people healed up."

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