Day 1 Results 2023 NSIC Outdoor Track and Field Championships

            Thanks to individual championships by Debonaire Williams in the decathlon and Dylan Kneifl winning the high jump, the Wayne State College men's track and field team is in first place with 47 points after the opening day of the 2023 Northern Sun Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships in St. Paul, Minnesota.
            The Wildcats scored 47 points on the first day and holds a seven-point advantage over second place Minnesota Duluth (40) followed by Sioux Falls (39), Minnesota State (36) and Augustana (30) in the top five.
            MSU Moorhead is sixth at 28 points with University of Mary (15), Northern State (14), Concordia-St. Paul (12), Minot State (9), Upper Iowa (2) and Southwest Minnesota State (1) rounding out the team standings.
            Williams won four of the 10 events in the decathlon to be crowned NSIC champion with 6,308 points.  He took first place in the 100-meter dash (11.23), 110 high hurdles (15.62), long jump (21' 10 ¾") and discus (122' 3").
            Kneifl collected a first-place finish in the high jump clearing 6' 7 ½" for the other Wildcat NSIC champion on the opening day. 
            Wayne State had one other All-NSIC finish on Friday as sophomore Logan Moeller finished third in the long jump with a best mark of 23' 9 ½" with teammate Mason Lee right behind in fourth at 23' 3 ¼".
            Junior Titus Kiptoo earned a fourth-place finish in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 31:44.57. 
            Jake Peitz took fifth in the hammer throw at 169' 8" with Grant Fritsch taking eighth (163' 2").
            Sixth place finishes were recorded by freshman Jarrett McQueen scoring 5,434 points while sophomore Daniel Elge had a sixth-place mark in the shot put with a top throw of 49' 11 ¾".
            In prelims, freshman Keaton Wattier qualified for Saturday's finals in the 110-meter high hurdles with the sixth-fastest qualifying time of 15.05 seconds.
            The final day of the 2023 NSIC Outdoor Track and Field Championships will take place Saturday in St. Paul, Minnesota with field events beginning at 11 a.m. and running event finals scheduled to start at 1 p.m.