Wheaton, Ill. – The Wheaton track and field teams hosted the Don Church Twilight Meet on Saturday at McCully Stadium and Lawson Field. The Wheaton men's track and field team placed fourth in the 16-team field.
University of Chicago finished first in the men's team standing with 232 points. Carthage College was second with 161.5 points, followed by College of DuPage in third with 80.5 points, Wheaton was fourth with 80.5 points and Harper College rounded out the top-five with 41 points.
Wheaton junior
Isaac Bledsoe continued his record-setting ways on Saturday. Bledsoe established a new school record in the men's 100-meter dash with a time of 10.46-seconds, breaking the old school record of 10.64-seconds that was set by Jim Adare in1967. Bledsoe's effort is the fastest time in the men's 100-meter dash by a CCIW athlete this spring. The effort earned him a second-place finish in the 76-man field today. Bledsoe placed sixth in the 200-meter dash today with a time of 22.04-seconds.
Today's school record in the 100-meter dash comes just two days after he broke his own school record in the 200-meter dash with a time of 21.40-seconds at the UW-La Crosse Phil Esten Challenge on Thursday evening. During the indoor track and field season, Bledsoe tied the school record in the indoor men's high julongmp (23' 3-1/4") at North Central's F. Lee Slick Invitational.
The lone first-place effort for the Wheaton men's program on Saturday came from All-American high jumper
Ty Bova. The sophomore posted a first-place finish in the event as he cleared a height of 1.98-meters (6' 6"). Joshua Schuurman placed sixth men's pole vault with a height of 1.98-meters (12' 11-1/2"). Jonathan Hurst recorded a toss of 39.68-meters (130' 2") to place sixth in the men's discus throw.
Matthias Everest placed third in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:55.21.
David Harvin recorded a pair of sixth-place finishes in the men's hurdles events. Harvin finished sixth in the 110-meter hurdles in 16.03-seconds and his time of 1:00.67 earned him sixth in the 400-meter hurdles.
Wheaton returns to action next Friday at UW-Whitewater's Drake Alternative meet.
