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Senior
Preston Davis placed in three events Saturday to lead the Wayne State men's track and field team on the final day of the 2021 Northern Sun Conference Championships at Malosky Stadium in Duluth, Minnesota. As a team, the Wildcats finished in seventh place with 51.5 points.
Minnesota State captured a ninth consecutive team title easily out-scoring Augustana 214.5-115. Concordia-St. Paul placed third with 84 followed by MSU Moorhead with 71 and Northern State and University of Mary tied for fifth at 65. Wayne State was seventh with 51.5 points.
Saturday's top performer was Davis, who collected a fifth place medal in the javelin (180' 6 1/2"), seventh in the 110 hurdle finals in 15.29 seconds and eighth in the 400 hurdles at 52.00 seconds.
Other medal winners Saturday included
Noah Lilly taking sixth in the javelin at 174' 11 3/4" while two Wildcat relays scored points. The 4 x 100 meter relay quartet of
Jediah Davis,
Justin Rohloff,
Jacob Ladage and
Noah Carr took fifth place in 42.32 seconds while the 4 x 400 team of Ladage,
Bryce Holcomb, Carr and
Michael Kueny came in seventh at 3:21.04.
Wayne State finished the NSIC meet with one champion and four All-NSIC finshers.
Kalkowski won his third straight NSIC hammer throw title to get the Wildcats off to a strong start Friday with a winning mark of 206' 10".
Two other Wildcats also scored in the hammer throw as senior
Dylan Kaup earned All-NSIC honors taking third place at 187' 1" while junior
Cole Christoffersen took fourth place with a throw of 180' 3 ½".
Noah Lilly collected All-NSIC honors with a second place finish in the decathlon at 6,368 points, an NCAA provisional mark, while senior
Ben Allen posted a third place finish and was All-NSIC in the shot put at 55' 7".
Freshman
Dylan Kneifl finished tied for eighth in the high jump Friday clearing 6' 2 ¾".
