DANVILLE, Ky. – Centre men's track & field hosted the first of two outdoor meets this month with the Centre Invitational, where they pulled away to a comfortable victory.
 
The Colonels earned their victory today with 233 points, besting second place Wittenberg by almost 100 points.
 
Beginning with the sprints, Blake Busson improved on his prelim time with a third place time of 11.02 in the 100m. In the 200m, Jackson Heim finished second overall with a time of 21.96, followed by Corbin Ison in seventh. Heim picked up a win as he posted a time of 48.37 to take first place in the 400m, with Ison finishing seventh again.
 
In the middle and long distance races, Jacob Lloyd took seventh place in the 800m with a time of 2:00.49. In the 1500m, Liam Black finished fourth with a time of 4:11.27, with Mitchell Chaffin taking sixth place. The 5k saw Max Germann take second place with a time of 16:26.70, followed by Baxter Keith in third, Joe Brandel in fifth and Walker Jones in seventh. Centre also posted the top two times in the 10k, with Ike Synnestvedt winning in 33:56.02, followed by Aidan Taylor in second. In the 3000m steeplechase, Reeve VanDemark picked up the win with a time of 9:36.51, with Cole Roberson finishing third.
 
In the 110m hurdles, Dirk Gambrel finished second overall with a time of 15.36, followed 0.2 seconds later by Justin Lewis in third. Lewis later picked up a victory in the 400m with a time of 56.42.
 
The men's 4x400m relay saw Ison, Lewis and Heim team with Teague Roth to finish second with a time of 3:23.91.
 
In the high jump, Isaac Johnson took second place overall with a clear of 6-0.75 (1.85m). The pole vault saw Centre pick up a victory as Alex Hibbens cleared 4.32m (14-2) to get the win. In the long jump, Carter Chandler finished second overall with a mark of 19-8 (5.99m), followed by Jacob Rogers in fifth and Evan Peters in seventh. Rogers later participated in the triple jump and posted a mark of 40-11.75 to take second place.
 
The throwing events were huge scoring events for the Centre men. In the shot put, David Harless earned the victory with a mark of 47-8 (14.53m), followed by Luke Cole in fourth, Tyler Vaughn in fifth and Terique Murphy-Adams in seventh. Harless led the way again in the discus with a throw of 145-1 (44.22m), with Cole taking fourth again. In the hammer, Harless picked up his second victory of the day with a mark of 143-2 (43.63m), followed by Murphy-Adams in fourth, Xavier Hayden in sixth, Cole in seventh and Jasper Staley in eighth. Finally, in the javelin it was Cole who got the win with a mark of 174-9, followed by Erik Backstrom in fourth and Lewis in seventh.
 
NEXT UP
 
The Colonels will return to action on Apr. 11-12 with the Berry Field Day in Georgia.