High Point Completes Weekend at Two Local Meets

DURHAM, N.C. / GREENSBORO, N.C. – The High Point University men’s and women’s track and field teams competed in-state at two meets over the weekend. The men’s and women’s pole vault teams competed at the Aggie Classic hosted by NC A&T on Friday while the rest of the team competed at the Duke Twilight at Duke University on Sunday.
 
At the Aggie Classic, Jackson Toumey placed first with a 5.05m clearance and Gabe Imery placed third with a 4.55m height. For the women, HPU had six of the eight competitors represented as Sydney Horn and Emily Romano placed first and second with heights of 4.18m and 4.08m.
 
At the Duke Twilight, the High Point men’s 4x100m relay team opened the meet with a second-place finish behind Duke, breaking 39 seconds for the second time this season. The group consisted of Myles Darroch, Dominiq Northington, Marquis Belle and Keshon Sapp.
 
In the men’s 100m hurdles, two Panthers placed in the top 10 including Northington and Antonio Votour in fifth and sixth respectively. They both clocked a 14.22 time as Votour recorded a new personal best.
 
In the women’s 400m race, Dae’Nitra Hester represented the Panthers and earned fifth place with a 54.12 time. On the men’s side in the 400m, Tim Brown broke the High Point program record again with a 46.50 time to take home gold. Darroch also placed in the top 10 with a 48.07 time.
 
Quiana Williams crossed the finish line in the women’s 100m dash in seventh place with an 11.58 time.
 
In the men’s 800m, Camerin Williams ran in heat one and finished in seventh pace overall with a 1:49.64 time.
 
Allon Sweeney clocked a new personal best in the men’s 400m hurdles to place in the top 10.
 
Hester and Williams later competed in the women’s 200m dash and placed in 10th  and 11th respectively. The men’s side looked similar as Northington and Brown also placed 10th and 11th respectively.
 
Although Graham Ferguson did not finish in the top 10 in the men’s 1500m, he still managed to break the High Point program record with a 3:41.35 time. He ranks 60th overall in the East Region.
 
Aiden Morrison went to work in the men’s 3000m steeplechase. His new person best 8:58.39 time earned a sixth place finish.
 
Closing out the late night on the track at the Twilight Relays, Steinau ran a season-best in the men’s 5000m and registered a 14:18.33 for eighth place overall.
 
In the field events at Duke, High Point’s Alex Hoffman placed seventh in the men’s hammer throw with a 58.51 throw. In the women’s shot put, Elise Magaard placed 10th with a 12.14m throw.
 
Continuing the throwing events, two Panthers placed in the top 10 in the women’s javelin including Moriah Evans and Addison Freeland. Evans threw 41.56m and Freeland threw 40.01m. For the men, three Panthers placed sixth through eighth, including Drew Noblet, Jake Gherardi, and Justin Sluijter.
 
In the jumping events, Sluijter took home another first place title in the men’s long jump in back-to-back weeks and jumped 7.53m. Gianna Paul placed fifth in the women’s long jump and registered a 5.83m jump. In the men’s high jump, Shaun Thomas placed second clearing 2.06m and Alex Constantinou placed sixth clearing 2.01m.
 
In the women’s pole vault, Aurian Viola placed sixth clearing a season-best 4.09m. In the men’s pole vault, Toumey placed third in his second meet this weekend clearing 5.11m.
 
UP NEXT:
High Point will travel to Lynchburg, Va. for a mid-week meet at Liberty University for the Liberty Twilight. The meet will take place on Tuesday, May 6.
 

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