By: Casey Kropka
NORTH CANTON, Ohio—The Mount Union track and field tuned up on Thursday afternoon at the Walsh Invitational.
Aaron Blevins (Windham) won the high jump with a leap of 6-feet 4.75-inches. Blevins also finished third in the 110-Meter hurdles with a time of 15.51.
Makayla Sitzlar (Sugarcreek / Garaway) won the shot put with a throw of 43-feet 4.25-inches.
Elizabeth Funkhouser (Carrollton) finished second in the 400-Meter dash with a time of 59.71.
Colton Hanlon (Uniontown / Lake) and
Cameron Nightingale (Whitehouse / Anthony Wayne) took second and third in the pole vault with jumps of 14-feet 1.75-inches and 13-feet 1.75-inches.
Wyatt Freeman finished second in the javelin with a toss of 149-feet 9-inches.
Ryan McVicker (Dover) finished third in the shot put with a toss of 51-feet 7.25-inches.
Tylir Shannon (Greenville, Pa. / Reynolds) finished third in the 100-Meter dash with a time of 10.90.
Laney Duff (Millersburg / W. Holmes) finished third in the high jump with a leap of 4-feet 11-inches.
Kayla McAdams (Massillon / Massillon Perry) and Annalyse (Hudson, Mich / Hudson Area) took third and fourth in the pole vault with leaps of 11-feet 4.5-inches and 10-feet 10.75-inches.
Curtis Joppeck (New London) and
Vincent Giumenti (Dover) finished fourth and fifth in the 800-Meters with times of 1:52.77 and 1:53.15.
Ty Pratt (Massillon / Tuslaw) took fourth in the 400-Meter hurdles with a time of 1:01.12.
Paige Klingensmith (Stow) and
Becca Santom (Grove City, Pa. / Grove City Area) finished fourth and fifth in the 100-Meter hurdles with a 16.50 and 16.79.
Makenna Rudy (Salem) finished fifth in the shot put with a toss of 41-feet 10-inches.
Hailey Stanforth (Hamilton / Butler) took fifth in the javelin with a throw of 80-feet 5-inches. \
Mount Union now heads to Tiffin on Thursday and Friday next week to compete in the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships hosted by Heidelberg University.