Bowling Wins Long, Triple Jump At Pioneer Open

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. (WLCSports.com) - Sophomore Keith Bowling (Jefferson, Wis.) won both the long and triple jump in his season debut to lead the Wisconsin Lutheran College men's indoor track & field team on Saturday at the non-scoring Pioneer Open hosted by UW-Platteville.

• Event: Pioneer Open
• Final Results: No Team Scores
• Location: Williams Fieldhouse, Platteville, Wis.

• Bowling recorded personal best marks to win both the long and triple jump with distances of 6.47m and 13.33m, respectively.
• Junior Sam Boone (Mindoro, Wis.) competed in his first collegiate meet, opening the day with a time of 7.34 seconds in the 60-meter dash prelims to qualify for the finals where he finished third in a time of 7.32 seconds. Boone also placed in the 200-meter dash finishing eighth with a time of 24.17 seconds.
• Junior Daniel Bronner (Hartland, Wis.) finished third in the 3000-meter run clocking in at 9:43.28. Bronner also ran a flat time of 4:48.00 in the mile run for sixth place.
• Freshman Thomas Jungwirth III (Appleton, Wis.) ran a 9.49 in the 60-meter hurdles prelims to qualify for the finals and later posted a time of 9.43 seconds for fourth place.
• Freshman Jade Burge (Woodland, Ala) also competed in the 60-meter dash, running 7.45 in the prelims and 7.44 in the finals to finish fifth.
• Sophomore Sam Rodmyre (Federal Way, Wash.) posted a personal best time in the 60-meter hurdles prelims race of 9.33 seconds. In the finals, Rodmyre ran a 9.45 finishing fifth. He earned another personal best in the long jump with a sixth place leap of 6.17m.
• Senior Elijah Tesch (Sun Prairie, Wis.) raced a 2:06.93 in the 800 meters good for sixth.

• "Many athletes got their first taste of collegiate competition today and responded well. Our goal at early meets is to win heats and make finals and we did both of those things across the board today. Big wins and PR's in long and triple for Keith and Becca had a great 800 win while running alone for the entire race. We have plenty to work on before Ripon next week, but I'm very happy with the progress we continue to make each week in practice." - Head Coach Eric Kramer

• The Warriors will compete next week at the Red Hawk Invite hosted by Ripon. Events are scheduled to start at 11:00 a.m. inside the Willmore Center.