Full Results
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa.- The West Chester University men's track and field team was back in action on Friday afternoon at Shippensburg for the second day of the PSAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships. West Chester got a host of strong preliminary round performances on Friday to ensure it will have a busy Saturday ahead, but did not score a point as the Golden Rams enter Saturday ninth in the team standings with eight points for the Championships.
Chase Hildebrand (Chalfont, Pa./C.B. South) finished 10
th in the Decathlon with 5,616 points after strong performances in the last five events of the competition, including a fifth-place finish in the pole vault with a height of 12 feet 7 ½ inches (3.85 meters) for his top finish of the competition.
West Chester punched its ticket to the Saturday finals of the 4x100 relay as the Golden Rams placed third in the prelims with a time of 40.75 seconds.
Jhaven Sims-Pagan (Scranton,Pa/Scranton) qualified for Saturday finals in the 110 hurdles with a fourth-place finish in the prelims in 14.68 seconds. Sims-Pagan also qualified for the 400-meter hurdle finals with a second-place finish in prelims in 53.98 seconds.
Terry Dweh (Darby, Pa./Penn Wood) narrowly missed out on punching his ticket to the 400-meter finals as he finished ninth in prelims in 49.48 seconds, just .08 behind Micah Good of Slippery Rock, who grabbed the eighth and final spot.
Evan McCracken (Johnstown, Pa./Richland) placed fifth in the 100 in 10.47 seconds, which was enough to send him through to Saturday's finals.
Billy Zane (Springfield, Pa./Springfield DELCO) qualified for the 800 finals with a third-palce prelim finish in 1:53.82, just .13 behind Jakob Rager, who won the prelims in 1:53.69.
Up Next
West Chester will be back in action tomorrow for the third and final day of the PSAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg as the Golden Rams look to climb from ninth with eight points after two days at the Championships.
