Results

Whitewater, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse men's track & field team captured the Midwest ELITE Invitational Saturday afternoon at UW-Whitewater. The Eagles finished with 151.0 team points while UW-Whitewater was second with 99.5 and Washington University-St. Louis (Mo.) third with 89.0. A total of 10 teams competed. 

UWL had six individual champions on Saturday, including Samuel Sadowski in the long jump (23-3 1/2) and Andrew Jarrett in the weight throw (66-8).  The Eagles won four titles on the track, including Josh Koenecke in the 60-meter dash (6.92), Will Seeser in the 400-meter dash (50.24), Samuel Hinz in the 800-meter run (1:54.77) and Joshua Schraeder in the 5,000-meter run (14:34.03). 

Along with Sadowski winning the long jump, Jacob Teunas was second (22-8) and Cameron Sorenson fourth (22-6 1/4). Sorenson was also sixth (44-3 1/2) in the triple jump.

The Eagles' Kaleb Schuster placed fourth (14-10 1/4) and Isaac Lock fifth (14-10 1/4) in the pole vault.  Kyle Pulvermacher was second (49-4 1/2) in the shot put while Christian Morzinski placed second (60-6 3/4) and Justin Donkin fourth (55-9 3/4) in the weight throw. 

On the track, Koenecke was also second (22.32) in the 200-meter dash while Troy DeBruin was third (22.42). DeBruin placed sixth (7.06) in the 60-meter dash. Charlie Handrick finished fourth (50.46) and Joshua Desorcy fifth (50.47) in the 500-meter dash. 

Zachary Shoemaker-Allen finished second (4:17.60) in the mile run Saturday while Tyler Nault was fifth (14:47.62) in the 5,000-meter run.

UWL returns to action Friday, February 15 at the Minnesota State University, Mankato Maverick Invitational at 11 a.m.