Day 2 Results

NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Saint John's track and field broke two program records on the second day of the 2026 MIAC Indoor Championships held Friday, Feb. 27, at Carleton.

St. Olaf leads the 11-team field with 87 points, followed by Bethel (74), SJU (49), Gustavus Adolphus (43.5) and Carleton (38).

Junior Cole Stencel (Mapleton, Minn./Maple River) won the conference title in the mile run with a program- and meet-record time of 4:10.26. The 4:10.26 broke his own record of 4:10.42 set earlier this month on Feb. 7 at Division I Minnesota's Gopher Classic. Stencel became the first Johnnie to win the MIAC title in the event since Chris Erichsen '07 in 2006 (4:19.78). The All-MIAC honor (top three at the MIAC Championships) is Stencel's fifth and second indoors (one in cross country and two outdoors).

The Johnnies' 4x200-meter relay (Aiden Jones, Andy White, Hunter Mohr, Kieran Murnan) finished second, by 0:00.43 of a second to Bethel (1:28.36), with a program-record time of 1:28.79. The previous record of 1:29.06 was set in 2019 (Drew Schoenbauer, Max Martin, Jack Young, Ryan Miller).

SJU's distance medley relay (Lars Molenkamp, Wyatt Witschen, Max McCoy, Nick St. Peter), meanwhile, also earned All-MIAC honors with a third-place time of 10:21.61.

Sophomore Bailey Evans (Breckenridge, Minn.) achieved his first All-MIAC distinction with a second-place finish, by 71 points, out of 18 competitors in the two-day heptathlon (4,712 points). His best finish of the final three events was a personal-best height of 3.70 meters to take eighth in the pole vault.

Evans' Heptathlon
-55-meter dash: first (6.57) *PR
-long jump: first (6.38m)
-shot put: first (13.48m)
-high jump: first (1.89m) *PR
-55-meter hurdles: 13th (9.03) *PR
-pole vault: eighth (3.70m) *PR
-1,000 meters: 14th (3:01.61) *PR

Junior Noah Besemann (New Brighton, Minn./Irondale) followed Evans in fourth place with 4,557 points, 137 from third and All-MIAC honors. He claimed second overall Friday with a mark of 4.20 meters in the pole vault.

Besemann's Heptathlon
-55-meter dash: eighth (6.87) *PR
-long jump: fifth (6.07m) *PR
-shot put: second (12.54m) *PR
-high jump: fifth (1.71m)
-55-meter hurdles: 11th (8.83) *PR
-pole vault: second (4.20m)
-1,000 meters: 10th (2:55.91) *PR

Evans and junior Connor O'Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.) claimed sixth and seventh, respectively, in the high jump at 1.81 meters.

Three other Johnnies also scored team points on Friday. Senior Owen Montreuil (Jordan, Minn.) took sixth in the 800 meters (1:54.85), while sophomore Grady Minnerath (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori) and junior Cooper Smith (Alvarado, Minn./East Grand Forks) claimed seventh in the 35-pound weight throw (15.04 meters) and 400-meter dash (50.64), respectively. 

Sophomore Anthony Sletta (St. James, Minn.) just missed scoring in the long jump with a mark of 6.45 meters, which was 4.25 inches from eighth place (6.56 meters).

Three Johnnies qualified for Saturday's final in the 55-meter dash, led by junior Kieran Murnan (Lakeville, Minn./Holy Angels) third-best time of 6.50 seconds. Freshman Aiden Jones (Pierz, Minn.) followed in fifth (6.55) and senior Brennan Blake (Minneapolis, Minn./Totino-Grace) was the eighth and final qualifier at 6.56.

Freshman Trae Headlee (Billings, Mont./Skyview) qualified for the finals in the 55-meter hurdles with a seventh-place time of 8.00 seconds.

The third and final day of competition begins Saturday, Feb. 28, with field events at 11:45 a.m. and on the track at 1 p.m.