MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Senior Dylan Flewelling (Oakland, Maine) picked up where he left off on the track when he posted a victory to aid the Plymouth State University men's indoor track & field team to a fourth-place finish at the Middlebury Snowflake Invitational hosted by Middlebury College at Virtue Field House on Saturday.
 
Flewelling came off a dominant cross country season, posting multiple career bests to close out the year and he carried the momentum in the 3,000-meters when he ran a sub-nine-minute mark in a time of 8:56.47 to open his long-distance campaign.
 
His performance marks the tenth time a runner has gone sub-nine-minutes in the event at PSU. He has reached the mark three times, tied for the most in the program, and is the only runner to hit the mark this early into indoor season.
 
Plymouth State placed fourth as a team with 51 points, ahead of Little East Conference (LEC) foe VTSU Castleton.
 
 
The Basics:

• Middlebury Snowflake Invitational – 4th of 8 Teams
  • Middlebury (264.5), St. Lawrence (162.5), Union (113), Plymouth State (51), VTSU Castleton (17), VTSU Randolph (4), Potsdam State (3), VTSU Johnson (1)

How it Happened:

• Junior Josh Rebello (North Dighton, Mass.) took sixth in the mile run in 4:47.52.
• Sophomore Elijah Thomas (Stoughton, Mass.) sailed over the 60-meter hurdles to finish sixth in 8.85 seconds.
• Junior Zach Hodge (Springfield, N.H.) scored in the 400-meters when he placed eighth in a time of 52.97.
• Freshman Charlie Rixon (Huntington, Vt.) nabbed seventh in the 800-meters after running a 2:21.72, before senior Christian Oglesby (Penacook, N.H.) cruised to a third-place finish in the 200-meters in 23.23 seconds.
• Flewelling closed out the individual events on the track with a massive win in the 3,000-meters when he posted a time of 8:56.47.
• The 4x400-meter squad of Hodge, graduate student Brandon Vachon (Ayer, Mass.), senior Joey Cappelletti (Mansfield, Mass.) and sophomore Dom Picone (Litchfield, N.H.) combined efforts for a time of 3:36.42 to place fourth.
• Freshman Cooper Conklin (Cumberland, R.I.) heaved 13.43 meters for a fourth-place finish in the weight throw, while sophomore Kole Matta (Castleton, Vt.) threw 12.29 meters to take eighth.
• Freshman Jake Leazott (Barre, Mass.) continued the momentum for the throws crew in the shot put, where he recorded a toss of 12.27 meters for sixth overall.
• Cappelletti and junior Nik Snyder (Pelham, N.H.) both scored in the long jump, with Cappelletti launching himself 6.20 meters to place third and Snyder covering 5.81 meters for an eighth-place finish.
• Freshman CJ Lytle (Merrimack, N.H.) closed out the field events after clearing 1.60 meters in the high jump.

Up Next:

• PSU returns home to host the Panther Invitational I next Saturday (Jan. 18) beginning at 10:00 a.m.