Marion, Ind.- The Marian men's track and field team captured a perfect start to the 2024 Crossroads League Outdoor Championships on Thursday at Indiana Welseyan, taking first place into Friday's competition in the ten-team field. Marian scored 94 points on the day, scoring meet records and placing on the podium eight times to highlight the meet's opening day. 

The Knight's first scored event of the day in the 4x800 claimed the first place position, as the team of Robin Aguilar-Gonzalez, Howard Hendricks, Andrew McDade, and Ben Moster finished with a 7:31.81 and tallied 10 points to put Marian in the early lead.

Marian claimed the majority of their points in the field with the Knights placing in the top ten 14 times within the five events. Marian started off on a high note with Gunner Kovach, Jordan Pohl, and Cameron Parsley claiming a total of 14 points in the high jump. Kovach claimed second place while Phol claimed fourth, and Parsley claimed eighth. The Knights kept the trend going with Jacob Netral, Christian Rios, and Isaiah Tipping claiming the top three spots in the shot put with, Netral claiming first with a mark of 18.60m, Rios claiming second, and Tipping claiming third.

Tipping, Rios, and Netral also all placed in the top five in the discus. With Tipping claiming first with a mark of 55.14m, Rios claiming third, and Netral claiming fifth. To finish off the field events for day one Brenden Endres placed fifth in the pole vault, and Keagan and Brennen La Belle tied for seventh place.

Back on the track Jeremiah Brown broke the meet record in the 100m dash in preliminaries with a time of 10.37 to claim the first qualifying spot for tomorrow's finals race. To finish off the evening Blake Hipkiss, Robert Lohman, and Clark Chustz all placed in the top 10 in the 10k. With Hipkiss claiming fourth, Lohman claiming sixth, and Chustz claiming ninth. 

Marian's first events on Friday will start at, 9:00 a.m., with Marian competing for a championship in the Heptathlon, Decathlon, Hammer and Javelin to start off the final day of the meet.

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