By: By Hunter McKay
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LYNCHBURG, VA.
– The Kennesaw State men's track and field team won its seventh consecutive ASUN Conference Indoor team championship on Saturday, February 17 at the Liberty Indoor Track and Field complex. This is the program's ninth ASUN Indoor title, which is the most in conference history.
Team Scoring:
The KSU men's team scored 212 points for the championships to win by 101 points over second-place Lipscomb and 121 points over third-place North Florida. The Owls scored 149 points on day two of the event.
Combined Events
Men's Heptathlon (Final Three Events)
Paris Williams won the heptathlon scoring a career-best 5167 points.
He won the 60m hurdles with the sixth-fastest time in school heptathlon history of 8.24 seconds.
Williams point total was good for fifth most in conference history and sixth most in program history.
Williams is only the third athlete in ASUN history to win the heptathlon in back-to-back seasons.
David Lott finished second with 4735 points. He won the 1000m on Saturday with a time of 2:47.37 good for sixth-fastest in program history.
Kyle Martin took home bronze medal scoring 4577 points. Martin landed a personal-best vault of 4.19m (13'9) to win the event.
Akindele Earns Most Outstanding Performer
Junior
Dayo Akindele was named Most Outstanding Performer of the meet after he collected 30 points during the meet.
Akindele earned a gold medal in the long jump, triple jump and the 60m-hurdles
Medal Winners
Chuck McConville took home his second gold medal of the meet winning the weight throw with a career-best toss of 17.50m (57'4.75).
Daniel McKune joined him on the podium after a career-best throw of 16.17m (53'0.5) earned him the bronze medal.
The Owls would sweep the triple jump.
Dayo Akindele won leaping 15.10m (49'6.50),
Tariq Bradford was second with a career-best jump of 14.64m (48'0.5) and
Tyler Jones grabbed third with a personal-best mark of 14.64m (48'0.5).
Akindele would claim his second gold of the day in the 60m hurdles with a time of 7.92
Paris Williams joined Akindele on the medal stand finishing second in a time of 8.24.
In the 60m, Cam Bolden won his second-straight gold medal in the event in a time of 6.87 seconds, while
Jordan Hewing finished third in 6.95 seconds and grabbed the bronze medal.
Bolden returned to the track and earned the gold medal in the 200m after finishing in 21.65 just .07 seconds ahead of
Omar Diaz who finished second in 21.72.
To close out the evening, the men's 4x400 relay team of
Montreal Milton,
Jordan Hewing, Bolden and Diaz recorded a time of 3:19.71 to take home the silver medal.
Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Andy Eggerth's Thoughts on the Men winning the ASUN Championship
" We are down a bit as a squad, as our ambition is to a national level. Our men performed very well this weekend, but need to get a bit more focused in the day-to-day. I am certainly happy for our men to win their seventh consecutive title and put up several strong performances. It's a process and we're definitely moving the right direction but are not satisfied."
Next Up
The Owls open the outdoor season March 16-17 at the two-day Yellow Jacket Invitational hosted by Georgia Tech.
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