The Basics
Event: Shenandoah Holiday Kickoff Open
Location: Winchester, Va. | James R. Wilkins, Jr. Athletics & Events Center
The Lead: Three Maroons registered first-place finishes and the men's track & field team placed second overall at Shenandoah's Holiday Kickoff Open.
Meet Highlights:
- Dominic McCombs took first in the pole vault with a leap of 4.10m.
- Cody Roupe was the top finisher in the high jump, logging a mark of 1.75m. Trey Tomlinson came in third at 1.66m.
- Amari Carter marked his collegiate debut with an event win, taking the 60m finals with a time of 6.90 seconds, while Drew Bitzer placed fourth at 7.03. Carter set the Roanoke freshman record and clocked the second-fastest 60m time in program history, and Bitzer's mark is good for third all-time.
- Elias Ammon finished second in the mile run, completing the race in 4:28.93. Jackson Coombes came in fifth at 4:40.13, followed by Adrian Shiguango-Holtz in sixth at 4:43.22.
- In the 3,000m, Gabe Ramirez finished fourth with a time of 9:19.67, and Sam Brasler clocked in at fifth in 9:23.30.
- Carter and Bitzer also scored in the 200m finals. Carter placed fourth in 22.87 seconds, while Bitzer was sixth at 22.95; those times rank sixth and seventh in the Roanoke record book.
- Ian Fellows and Seth Perry finished back-to-back in fifth and sixth place in the 5,000m, recording times of 15:39.22 and 15:41.74. Those times are also the fifth and sixth fastest in school history.
- Davis Neel came in fifth in the finals of the 60m hurdles, recording a mark of 9.17 seconds.
- Aidan Vigus notched a fifth-place performance in the weight throw with a personal-record distance of 11.93m, and he also finished eighth in the shot put (11.71m).
- Roanoke's 4x400 relay team of Lorenzo Camobreco, Jack Parlee, Brandon Heffinger and Bryson Hill rounded out the scoring with a sixth-place run of 3:36.02.
- McDaniel won the team title with 104 points. The Maroons tallied 94 points to place second overall.
Head Coach Derek Workman: "Super proud of how they competed today, especially the young bucks. We were winning the meet all day until the last event or two, and we didn't have three of our best guys competing. That was fun to be part of."
Up Next: Roanoke will kick off its home schedule after the holiday break, playing host to the
Finn Pincus Invitational on Jan. 17-18.
