High Point Results  |  Carnegie Mellon Results

The Malone University's men's and women's track & field teams sent student-athletes to High Point University's VertKlasse Meeting in High Point, North Carolina and Carnegie Mellon University's Quad Meet in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

Sophomore Ashton Dulin provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division II National Championship Meet in the 400-meter hurdles and broke the Great Midwest Athletic Conference records in both the 400-meter hurdles and the 110-meter hurdles at High Point. 

His time of 53.391 seconds in the 400 hurdles earned him a third-place finish among a field of 19 competitors, including a number of Division I student-athletes.  Dulin had originally set the G-MAC mark in the event at Muskingum University's Amy Adams Memorial last Saturday with a time of 53.83 seconds.

In the 110 hurdles, Dulin clocked a new personal-best of 14.53 seconds.  The performance placed him third among 13 entrants and was just .03 seconds off the Division II provisional-qualifying standard.  It was also .03 seconds better than the G-MAC record of 14.56 seconds, set by Cedarville University's Cory Caldwell in 2014.

Freshman Michelia Tanner also left her mark on the conference record book at Carnegie Mellon as she broke the G-MAC discus record for the second consecutive week with a toss of 137'10".  The performance moves Tanner up to fourth on the Pioneers' all-time list in the event.
 
Women's Highlights – Carnegie Mellon
In the hammer throw competition, Tanner recorded the second-longest heave of the day at 131' 4".  The performance moves Tanner up to ninth on Malone's all-time list in the hammer throw.  Taryn Chapman, meanwhile, had the third-best hammer throw mark among the seven competitors at 116' 6".

In the shot put, Tanner notched the third-best throw of the day at 37' 7.75" while Chapman had the sixth-best mark at 32' 1".
 
Women's Highlights – High Point
Erika Rector took home a fourth-place finish in the 800 meters with a time of 2:14.47.

Olga Branney finished in a tie for 7^th in the high jump with a mark of 4' 11.75".

Four Pioneers finished among the Top 25 in the 400-meter dash as Katie Grimes placed eighth in 59.83, Rebekah Carr took 11th in 1:00.53, Elisha Cooper was 13th in 1:00.86 and Emily Luli was 21st with a mark of 1:01.51.

In the 400-meter hurdles, Madelynn McDermott placed 12th in 1:10.09.  Paige Svendsen was right behind, taking 13th in 1:10.54. 

In the 100-meter hurdles, Kelsey Veldhuizen crossed the finish line in 16.13 seconds which was good for 22nd place.  Mary Briceland was 24th in 16.17 seconds and McDermott was 25th in 16.21 seconds.
 
Men's Highlights – Carnegie Mellon
Duke Taylor won both the hammer throw and discus in Pittsburgh on Saturday.  In the hammer throw, Taylor launched a heave of 175' 3". Camden Baucke was fifth at 137' 7".  Austin Cary notched a heave of 132' 10", Chad Sanner finished at 112' 0" and Tyler Bowman had a toss of 88' 6".

In the discus, Taylor posted a winning mark of 173' 8".  Cary was next at 127' 7", Sanner posted a mark of 122' 8", Baucke tallied a heave of 117' 0" and Bowman recorded a toss of 79' 4".

In the shot put competition, Baucke tallied the third-best performance among the 16 participants with a heave of 45' 2.5".  Clay Wodicka followed at 40' 0", Bowman had a toss of 39' 2.5" and Cary posted a throw of 36' 3".
 
Additional Men's Highlights – High Point
Daniel Brown took 12th in the participation heat of the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.61 seconds while Joshua Easley followed in the 14th with a mark of 15.76.

Up Next:
The Pioneers will participate in the University of Mt. Union's John Homon Open next weekend.