Mankato, Minn. --- The #23 Minnesota State Men's Indoor Track & Field team stands in first place with 46 points after the opening day of competition in the two-day Mark Schuck Open & Multi presented by North Mankato Family Dentistry, with five of the 22 events completed.
MSU runners swept the top five podium places in the 300-meter run, led by senior
Kenry Atubel's 34.55 first-place effort. Not only did Atubel win the event, but he turned in the third-best time in program history and the ninth-best mark in the NCAA Division II record book.
Sophomore
Junior Pontes Da Veiga was runner-up with a time of 35.04, tying for the ninth-best mark in MSU history and 22
nd in NCAA Division II history, with freshman
Qai Hussey right behind in third (35.31), which is 14
th all-time in the Maverick record book. Taking fourth and fifth, respectively, were sophomore
Marvin Dure (35.55) and senior
Eddie Blackwell (35.61). Also scoring in the 300-meter run was sophomore
Kyler Bade, who took eighth (36.25).
Two Mavericks scored in the 3000-meter run, led by sophomore
Ray Ure's third-place finish (8:53.41), with fellow sophomore
Nikolai Schmanski claiming seventh (9:06.84). Freshman
Braxton Stewart finds himself in seventh-place in the heptathlon with a point total of 2695 after the first day of competition in the event, and will finish up the final three events tomorrow.
The Mavericks will conclude the Mark Schuck Open & Multi, presented by North Mankato Family Dentistry, tomorrow beginning at 10:00 a.m. in Myers Field House on the campus of Minnesota State.
| Place |
Team |
Points |
| 1 |
MINNESOTA STATE |
46 |
| 2 |
Sioux Falls |
36 |
| 3 |
Dakota State |
17 |
| 4t |
Concordia-St. Paul |
16 |
| 4t |
Wayne State (Neb.) |
16 |
| 6 |
Augustana |
13 |
| 7 |
Southwest Minnesota State |
10 |
| 8 |
Hamline |
6 |
