BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – With all their events completed on Friday, the No. 7 Washington University in St. Louis men's track and field team had to wait on Saturday for the final standings to see where they finished.
After everything was done, WashU finished in 8
th Place with their 19.5 points from Friday's events.
The Bears scored 17.5 points in the pole vault. Junior
Peter Lichtenberger was the top Bear, finishing in third place with a clearance of 5.08m, scoring six team points. Graduate
Tommaso Maiocco and senior
George Bourdier also cleared 5.08m, but due to tiebreakers, Maiocco finished in fourth place, scoring five points, and Bourdier finished in fifth place, scoring four points.
Senior
Hayden Kunkel added 2.5 points to the team total with his sixth-place finish, clearing 5.03m.
WashU scored its other two points from the Distance Medley Relay as the team of senior
James Corbett, senior
Dayton Lasack, junior
William Frohling, and first-year
Max Sudrzynski finished in seventh place with a time of 9:52.06.
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