DARTMOUTH, Mass. – Senior Dylan Flewelling (Oakland, Maine) won a conference title, two Plymouth State University men's track & field relay teams shattered program records, and freshman Gabe Kean (Thornton, N.H.) also set a school record to push the Panthers to a sixth-place team finish at the Little East Conference (LEC) Championships hosted by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on Sunday.
  
The 4x100-meter relay foursome of graduate student Brandon Vachon (Ayer, Mass.), senior Christian Oglesby (Penacook, N.H.), junior Nik Snyder (Pelham, N.H.), and Kean broke the program record for the second time this season with a mark of 43.14 seconds.
 
Flewelling highlighted the day in the individual events when he won his signature event, the 5,000-meters, in a time of 15:25.09, winning by over ten seconds.
 
Kean added an individual milestone in the prelims of the 100-meters when he topped the school record with a mark of 11.07 seconds. He finished seventh in the finals.
 
To conclude the historic outing, the 4x400-meter squad of Oglesby, seniors Brayden White (Whitefield, N.H.) and Joey Cappelletti (Mansfield, Mass.) and junior Zach Hodge (Springfield, N.H.) broke the program record by two seconds and placed second overall.
 
Plymouth State finished sixth out of nine teams with 68 points.
 
 
The Basics:

• LEC Championship – 6th of 9 Teams

How it Happened:

• Senior Connor Wilcox (Colchester, Conn.) kicked off the day with a second place finish in the 10,000-meters in 32:03.85.
• Oglesby, Vachon, Snyder, and Kean combined for a program record in the 4x100-meter relay in 43.14 seconds to place fifth overall.
• Sophomore Ben Colby (Manchester, N.H.) placed fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:12.67, and classmate Elijah Thomas (Stoughton, Mass.) got second in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.39 seconds.
• Kean grabbed the final qualifying spot in teh 100-meter dash prelims with a school record time of 11.07 seconds. He finished seventh in the finals in 11.24.
• White nabbed another second place finish in the 400-meters when he broke 50-seconds with a 49.78.
• Junior Josh Rebello (North Dighton, Mass.) came in third in the 800-meters with a time of 1:57.79.
• Sophomore Shea McLaughlin (Byfield, Mass.) neared a program record in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 58.68 seconds.
• Flewelling won the 5,000-meters in 15:25.09, while junior Max Goodman (South Salem, N.Y.) took sixth in 15:49.26.
• The 4x800-meter relay team of Flewelling, Colby, Rebello, and senior Eli Roth (Stamford, Conn.) finished third with a combined time of 8:10.27.
• White, Oglesby, Cappelletti, and Hodge broke the program record in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:23.17 to finish second.
• Freshman Cooper Conklin (Cumberland, R.I.) placed third in the hammer throw with a heave of 49.13 meters.

 
Up Next:

• Qualifying athletes head to Coast Guard Academy next weekend (May 2-3) for the NCAA Division III New England Regional Championships.