PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Senior Dylan Flewelling (Oakland, Maine) and the 4x200-meter relay team capitalized on program records to push the Plymouth State University men's indoor track & field team to a second-place finish at the Panther Invitational I at the Bank of New Hampshire Field House at ALLWell North on Saturday.
 
Flewelling began the day with another massive victory in the 5,000-meters, winning in a new program and facility record time of 15:04.04. He beat the next best runner by over 30 seconds.
 
To cap the meet, the relay team of senior Christian Oglesby (Penacook, N.H.), junior Zach Hodge (Springfield, N.H.) and freshmen Ty Shipmon (Yonkers, N.Y.) and Gabe Kean (Thornton, N.H.) smashed the five-year old program record by roughly two seconds to win the event in 1:32.84. Oglesby got stuck in third, but a clean late handoff nudged Hodge closer to the leaders to make the pass on the backstretch. From there, Kean gapped the field for Shipmon to close out with the win and school record.
 
Plymouth State placed second as a team, trailing only NCAA Division II competitor Franklin Pierce, and well ahead of LEC rivals Keene State and VTSU Castleton.
 
 
The Basics:

• Panther Invitational I – 2nd of 6 Teams
  • Franklin Pierce (251.5), Plymouth State (195), Keene State (78.5), VTSU Castleton (35), Colby-Sawyer (29), York County Community College (13)

How it Happened:

• Flewelling sparked the Panthers with an incredible program record time in the 5,000-meters in 15:04.04 with senior Connor Wilcox (Colchester, Conn.) taking third in 15:36.41.
• Junior Max Goodman (Salem, N.Y.) led the Panthers in the mile run with a time of 4:44.95 for fourth place.
• Sophomore Shea McLaughlin (Byfield, Mass.) took the win in the 60-meter hurdles in 9.04 seconds, with sophomore Logan Rines (Littleton, N.H.) in sixth with a time of 9.47 seconds.
• PSU swept the top four spots in the 400-meters, beginning with Oglesby, who won the even in 51.25 seconds. He was followed by senior Brayden White (Whitefield, N.H.), Hodge and senior Joey Cappelletti (Mansfield, Mass.) with times of 51.51, 52.01, and 52.60, respectively.
• Freshman Charlie Rixon (Huntington, Vt.) nabbed fifth in the 600-meters in 1:41.03.
• The duo of Shipmon and Kean went one and two in the 60-meter dash in times of 7.07 and 7.20 seconds, while senior Brandon Vachon (Ayer, Mass.) and junior Nik Snyder (Pelham, N.H.) ran 7.23 and 7.33 for fourth and fifth.
• Senior Eli Roth (Stamford, Conn.) and sophomore Connor Phillips (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) scored third and fifth in the 800-meters with times of 2:01.22 and 2:07.05.
• Freshman Noah Francis (Bethlehem, N.H.) placed third in the 1,000-meters in 2:53.68.
• Cappelletti and Snyder scored fifth and sixth in the 200-meters in 24.05 and 24.18 seconds, respectively.
• Freshman Peter Swain (Wakefield, Mass.) took fifth in the 3,000-meters in 10:04.70.
• PSU's DMR squad of Roth, White, Francis and sophomore Ben Colby (Manchester, N.H.) combined for a second place finish in 11:13.47.
• The 4x200-meter foursome of Kean, Oglesby, Shipmon and Hodge closed on a high note, breaking the school record in 1:32.84 for the victory.
• Cappelletti placed fourth in the long jump with a leap of 6.31 meters.
• Freshman Jake Leazott (Barre, Mass.) threw 11.84 meters in the shot put for a fourth place finish.

Up Next:

• Plymouth State heads to Southern Maine for the Husky Invitational next Saturday (Jan. 25).