Results

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's finished second out of three teams at its invitational on Friday, Jan. 30, in the Donald McNeely Spectrum.

Bethel took first place with 155 points, while SJU took second (136) and Northwestern was third (3).

The Johnnies won seven events and registered 28 top-five marks/times.

SJU recorded the top-three times in the 1,000 meters, led by junior Cole Stencel's (Mapleton, Minn./Maple River) 2:32.90 for first place. Senior Nick St. Peter (Maple Grove, Minn.) was next in second (2:33.24), senior Owen Montreuil (Jordan, Minn.) was third (2:33.59) and junior Max McCoy (Bennington, Neb./Mount Michael Benedictine) was fifth (2:40.99).

Sophomore Grady Minnerath (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori) won the shot put with a personal-best toss of 15.34 meters and also took fifth in the weight throw with a distance of 13.70 meters, just behind classmate Jalen Graham (Minneapolis, Minn./Champlin Park) in fourth (13.72 meters).

Freshman Aiden Jones (Pierz, Minn.) and junior Kieran Murnan (Lakeville, Minn./Holy Angels) went 1 (7.00)-2 (7.03) in the 60-meter dash. Senior Abdul Sesay (St. Paul, Minn./Harding) and sophomore Anthony Ferrante (Prior Lake, Minn.) followed in fourth (7.14) and fifth (7.16), respectively, and Woody Bien-Aime was just outside the top five by 0.01 (7.17). Jones also claimed second in the 200-meter dash (22.79) and sophomore Andy White (Sioux Falls, S.D./O'Gorman) was fifth (23.31).

Sophomore Bailey Evans (Breckenridge, Minn.) won the long jump with a mark of 6.07 meters and recorded the fastest time during the 60-meter dash prelims – 7.04 seconds – but did not compete in the final.

Junior Bangaly Kaba (St. Cloud, Minn./Apollo) uncontested in the triple jump (12.81 meters) and freshman Raegan Lopez (Lakeville, Minn./North) won the 3,000 meters in 9:33.82. Two other freshmen, Ian Mills (Glenwood, Minn./Minnewaska Area) and John Steines (St. Paul, Minn./DeLaSalle), were third (9:37.08) and fourth (9:43.92), respectively.

Junior Cooper Smith (Alvarado, Minn./East Grand Forks) and sophomore Zander Olmschenk (Sauk Centre, Minn.) were second (1:26.64) and third (1:27.86) in the 600 meters, while junior Connor O'Brien (1.80 meters; Belle Plaine, Minn.) and freshman Josh Pretasky (1.55 meters; Chanhassen, Minn./Minnetonka) competed uncontested in the high jump. 

Junior Noah Besemann (New Brighton, Minn./Irondale) claimed second in both the long jump (5.76 meters) and the pole vault (4.12 meters), and junior Wyatt Witschen (Monticello, Minn.) finished third in the 400-meter dash (51.38). 

SJU's 4x400-meter relay (Witschen, St. Peter, Ryan Becker, McCoy) was second (3:31.92) and a pair of underclassmen earned fourth-place times on the track: freshman Trae Headlee (Billings, Mont./Skyview) in the 60-meter hurdles (8.79) and sophomore Nate Rohrer (St. Paul, Minn./Two Rivers) in the long jump (5.57 meters).

The Johnnies compete at Division I Minnesota's Gopher Classic at 10 a.m. next Saturday, Feb. 7, in Minneapolis.