Results
Decathalon Results (Day 1)
River Falls, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse men's track & field team leads after the first day of action Friday at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championships (presented by Culver's) David A. Smith Stadium at Ramer Field at UW-River Falls.
The Eagles have 59.0 team points while UW-Eau Claire is second with 42.5 and UW-Whitewater third with 41.0. UW-Stout is fourth (36.5) followed by UW-Stevens Point (23.0
), UW-Oshkosh (18.0), UW-Platteville (12.0) and UW-River Falls (2.0).
UWL is striving for its 30th consecutive league title and 56th in school history.
UWL's
Samuel Sadowski won an individual conference title on Friday in the long jump (24-0 3/4). It is his second straight WIAC championship in the long jump after winning the title in 2019. He joins Bill Patza (1981-82), Brad Hall (1988-89), Kellen McCrary (2010-11), Isaac Vazquez (2012-13) and
Dominique Neloms (2014-15) in school history to win back-to-back crowns in the event.
The Eagles'
Nick Crary finished fourth (22-7) and
Chase Roehl seventh (22-1) in the long jump on Friday.
Other top finishes in the field events included
Joseph Schmida second (178-6) and
Alec Morrison fifth (171-7) in the javelin throw while
Tommy Knoche was third (15-9),
Logan Larson fifth (15-3) and
Sashi Popke sixth (14-9) in the pole vault.
UWL had three of the top-eight finishers in the 10,000-meter run.
On the track,
Ethan Gregg finished second (30:04.34),
Isaac Wegner fourth (31:00.83) and
Parker Huhn eighth (31:22.60) in the 10,000-meter run. The Eagles'
Corey Fairchild was sixth (9:27.46) in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
After five events in the decathlon, UWL's
Gunnar Block is in sixth-place with 2,820 points. Friday's events included the 100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400-meter dash. The event concludes Saturday with the 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw and 1,500-meter run.
In the preliminary action on the track,
Dillon Murman (14.68),
Carson Reilly (14.99) and
Ben Jones (15.50) all advanced to Saturday's final in the 110-meter hurdles while
Andrew Pischke (58.36) and
Dirk Lueck (58.84) advanced in the 400-meter hurdles.
Seth Holden,
Josh Koenecke,
Spencer Reichart and
Troy DeBruin advanced to finals in the 100 and 200-meter dashes. Holden (10.48), Koenecke (10.66), Reichart (10.73) and DeBruin (10.73) advanced in the 100-meter dash. Holden (21.56), DeBruin (21.59), Reichart (21.91) and Koenecke (21.91) advanced to Saturday's 200-meter dash final.
UWL had a pair of runners advance in the 400-meter dash with
Jake Sullivan (48.68) and
Caden Pearce (49.01) while
Tyler Kisting advanced in the 800-meter run (1:56.29).
Action continues Saturday, May 8 starting at 9:30 a.m.
