Final Results 2022 NSIC Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships

            Pierce freshman Logan Moeller set a new school record in the triple jump, earning All-NSIC honors with a second place finish, and earned two medals to lead the Wayne State College men's indoor track and field team at the 2022 Northern Sun Conference Indoor Championships held Friday and Saturday in Mankato, Minnesota.  The Wildcats finished the meet in seventh place with 40 points (most points scored by WSC since 2018) and had two All-NSIC finishers.
            Minnesota State captured the men's team title with 200.16 points with Augustana in second place at 135, just ahead of third place MSU Moorhead's 126 points.  University of Mary was a distant fourth with 55.83 points and Concordia-St. Paul was fifth at 51 points.
            Northern State's 48.5 points was good for sixth place followed by the Wildcats in seventh at 40. 
            Minnesota Duluth was eighth with 26 points followed by Sioux Falls (25.5), Minot State (20) and Southwest Minnesota State (13) closing out the team scoring.
            Moeller opened the prelims Saturday morning in the triple jump with a leap of 48' 6", which was an NCAA provisional mark and new WSC school record that earned him second place in the event and All-NSIC honors.  The previous school record of 48' 4 ½" was shared by Mark Vollmer in 1988 and Brady Metz in 2017.  Moeller also collected a fourth place finish in the long jump Friday with a top mark of 23' ¾".
            Wayne State's other All-NSIC performer was high jumper Dylan Kneifl, who achieved an NCAA provisional mark clearing the bar at 6' 8 ¾" to place third in the event. 
            WSC earned two medals in the weight throw as Cole Christoffersen came in fifth place with a top mark of 60' 8" while teammate Grant Fritsch took sixth at 57' 3 ½".
            The Wildcats also collected two medals in the heptathlon as senior Noah Lilly finished in sixth place with 4,668 points followed by freshma Alex Brandt in seventh place at 4,551 points. 
            In the finals of the 600-meter run, graduate student Bryce Holcomb collected a sixth place finish with a time of 1:23.22 and freshman Daniel Elge added a seventh place finish in the shot put (49' 5") to close out Wayne State's individual scoring.
            The Wildcat 4 x 400 meter relay team of Jackson McIntyre, Michael Kueny, Holcomb and Noah Carr earned a fifth place finish in a time of 3:25.74.