Decathlon Results | Hamline Results

NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Saint John's sophomore Bailey Evans (Breckenridge, Minn.) became the sixth Johnnie and eighth overall to win the MIAC decathlon on Friday, May 1, at Carleton.

Evans entered the final event – the 1,500 meters – with a 217-point lead on Gustavus Adolphus' Connor McCormick and ran a personal-best 5:05.18 to win the title – the Johnnies' second-consecutive in the event – by a margin of 73 points.

He topped the field of 17 competitors with a total of 6,592 points. McCormick finished second with 6,519, while Carleton's Soren Kaster took third with 6,351.  

He joins Steve Kimble (1998, 1999); Matt Mogensen (2006); Brayden Wagner (2009); Maguire Petersen (2021, 2022); and Max Lelwica (2025) as a MIAC champion in the event.

Evans, who earned All-MIAC (top three) honors with a second-place finish in the heptathlon in February, set a PR in four events and bettered his decathlon score by 587 points. His best events were the 100-meter (912), long jump (727) and discus (712). His win adds 10 early points to the Johnnies' team total.

Evans' Decathlon
100-Meter Dash: First (10.77)
Long Jump: First (6.63m) *PR
Shot Put: First (13.44m)
High Jump: First (1.86m)
400-Meter Dash: Seventh (53.01)    
110-Meter Hurdles: (Fourth (16.42) *PR
Discus: First (42.31m) *PR
Pole Vault: 10th (3.32m)
Javelin: Third (46.35m)
1,500 Meters: 11th (5:05.18) *PR

Freshman Charles VanGrinsven (Prior Lake, Minn.) finished 13th with 4,524 points. His best day-two mark was a 30.33-meter toss to claim eighth in the discus throw. 

Freshman Josh Pretasky (Chanhassen, Minn./Minnetonka) was close behind in 14th (4,360). His best performance of the day was in the javelin, where he finished seventh with a toss of 39.77 meters. 

Each freshman totaled three personal-bests in the two-day event.

Hamline's Meet of the Unsaintly
Junior Cole Stencel (Mapleton, Minn./Maple River) finished sixth out of 31 runners – first among NCAA Division III participants – in the 1,500 meters tonight at Hamline's Meet of the Unsaintly in St. Paul. He recorded a personal-best time of 3:49.71, which is good for 16th-best in Division III this season and was a little over a second shy of the program record of 3:48.46 set by Thomas Feichtinger in 2015.

SJU competes at St. Olaf's Ole Open at noon Saturday, May 2, in Northfield.