Results

The Malone University indoor track and field teams posted a number of impressive performances on Saturday at the Spire Midwest Open in Geneva, Ohio.

Duke Taylor won the weight throw competition with a new Malone and Great Midwest Athletic Conference record of 18.92 meters (62' 1").  The impressive heave improves Taylor's NCAA Division II provisional qualifying position.  It also marks the fourth time this year that he has broken the conference weight throw record and the second time he has broken his own school record in the event.

Katie Grimes and Emily Luli both broke Malone's indoor 600-meter record on Saturday afternoon.  Grimes placed second overall with a mark of 1:36.34 while Luli was right behind, finishing third in 1:36.75.  The duo surpassed the previous school record of 1:37.72 that was set by Ashton Avery in 2011.

In the men's 60-meter hurdles, Ashton Dulin improved upon his NCAA Division II qualifying mark and just missed out on setting a new school record and a G-MAC record as he placed fourth in the event finals with a new personal-best time of 8.14 seconds.  The impressive showing was .03 seconds off Lepear Smith's 2015 Malone record of 8.11 seconds and just .02 off the G-MAC record of 8.12 seconds. 

Additional Women's Highlights
In the women's 60-meter hurdles, Taryn Chapman won her preliminary heat and advanced to the finals with a time of 9.50 seconds.  The performance marked a new personal-best for Chapman and moved her up to sixth on Malone's all-time list in the event.

In the women's 60-meter dash, Jaylyn Vance moved up to fifth on the Pioneers' all-time list after clocking a new PR with a time of 8.22 seconds.  Vance also earned an eighth-place finish in the long jump competition with a leap of 5.09 meters

Rebekah Carr placed eighth in the finals of the 400 meters with a time of 59.85 seconds.  The performance moves the freshman up to seventh on the Pioneers' all-time list.

In the 800 meters, Erika Rector finished third with a mark of 2:18.18 while Emily O'Dell won her heat and placed eighth overall in 2:23.11

Hannah Thompson placed eighth in the 3000 meters with a new personal-best time of 10:14.51.  The mark puts Thompson in the No. 10 spot on the Pioneers' all-time list in the event.

In the 4 x 400-meter relay, Grimes, Chapman, Carr and Rector placed third with a time of 4:00.70 while the relay team of Luli, Amber Murphy, Elisha Cooper and Ashley Krieger took seventh in 4:06.25.
 
Additional Men's Highlights
Taylor also finished ninth in the shot put with a heave of 14.10 meters.

Noah Whittington finished third in the un-seeded 3000 meters with a mark of 9:10.45.  George McCartney was 12th in the seeded 3000 meters with a time of 8:46.51.

Lorne Strausbaugh took home an eighth-place finish in the one-mile run with a time of 4:26.31
 
Up Next:
Malone is scheduled to return to action on February 10-11 as the squads compete at the Tiffin University Dragon Open and the Grand Valley State University Big Meet.