The Basics

Event: 2023 Finn Pincus Invitational

Location: Salem, VA

The Lead: The Roanoke College men's indoor track & field team hosted its first meet in 2023 with the Finn Pincus Invitational. Over 800 athletes came to the Cregger Field House over the weekend for the two-day event.

Full Results

Men's Highlights:

• In the 60m, Brady Fowler qualified through two rounds and finish sixth in the finals with a time of 6.96.
• Hunter Bohon made it through the prelims in the 60m hurdles and finished eighth in the finals with a time of 9.14.
• In the 200m, Samuel Crawford finished fourth with a time of 22.39 while Fowler was sixth with a time of 22.54.
•  The 500m saw three Maroon freshmen finish in the top 10 with Brandon Heffinger (1:10.32), Jonah Hamman (1:13.56), and Andrew Estes (1:15.98) finishing second, sixth, and ninth, respectively.
• Sean Toliver (6^th) and Xavier Chlebowski (7^th) were separated by 0.04 in the 1000m as they finished with times of 2:48.57 and 2:48.61, respectively.
• A new school record was set in the 3000m with Cooper Neeble crossed the finish line in a time of 8:36.61 to finish fifth. He broke the record of 8:37.35 previously set by Harrison Toney in 2015.
• In the high jump, Cody Roupe finished 10^th with a jump of 1.85m.
• Dominic McCombs was a top-10 finisher for Roanoke in the pole vault with a height of 3.75m
• Joseph Kenney was eighth in the triple jump with a distance of 12.43m.
• The team of Andrew Gregorits, RJ Birdsall, Daniel Jewell, and Franklin Reid was fourth in the 4000m distance medley in a time of 11:41.20. The second relay team of Joshua Woodley, Cameron Ballinger, Chlebowski, and Jacob Greenstein was fifth with a time of 11:43.77.
• The 4x400 relay team of Bohon, Heffinger, Fowler, and Crawford won the event with a time of 3:27.58, nearly 3.5 seconds ahead of second place Bridgewater.

Up Next: Roanoke will hit the road for the first time this season when they travel to the Steamer Showcase at Wittenberg in Ohio on Saturday, January 28.