Meet Information
• Meet: Centennial Conference Championship – Day Three
• Location: Collegeville, PA | Patterson Field
• Date: Sunday, May 8th
The JHU men took second place, scoring 187 points at the Centennial Outdoor Championships this weekend with the host school, Ursinus, taking the title with 215 points.
Arthur Beyer earned a gold and a silver medal on Sunday to lead the Jays.
Meet Highlights
- Competing in his first Centennial Outdoor Championship, Beyer took gold in the 800 and silver in the 1,500 to earn 18 points for Hopkins on the final day of competition. Beyer took the gold in the 800 with a time of 1:52.97, tying for the ninth-fastest time in JHU history. He held off McDaniel's Anders Madsen by less than a second to win. Beyer took second in the 1,500, finishing the race in 3:55.21 to earn eight points. The graduate led a pack of three Blue Jays within 1.35 seconds of each other.
- Justin Canedy picked up another silver medal on Sunday, finishing second in the triple jump with a 13.60m leap.
- Kevin Sommer ran and jumped to a silver medal in the 110 Hurdles, finishing the race in 15.56, just behind McDaniel's Tyren Proctor. Sommer also earned silver in the 400m Hurdles, breaking the meet record in the process with a 53.44 second time. Sommer breaks the school record with his effort and moves him up from 22nd to 15th in DIII as he continues to push for an NCAA appearance.
- Gavin McElhennon ran a strong race in the 5,000 to place second and pick up another eight points for JHU. McElhennon ran the race in 14:38.60. The time is McElhennon's second-fastest in the event and the seventh-fastest time in program history.
Other Top Performances
- Mitchell Porter took bronze in the triple jump, hitting a 13.28m leap on his fifth attempt to nose past Gettysburg's Caden Giordano with a 13.27m jump.
- The Hopkins men took bronze in the 4x100, finishing the race in 42.86 seconds. Matthew Su, Ahmed Elmogi, Chance Simpson and Nathaniel Amoah combined for the Jays.
- Finishing just behind Beyer in the 1,500 were Matthew Kleiman and Bryce Thalheimer. Kleiman takes home the bronze medal with a time of 3:56.29 while Thalheimer took fourth at 3:56.56.
- Elias Boussouf took bronze in the 400 Hurdles, running a time of 54.49, the ninth-fastest time in program history. He also placed fourth in the 110 Hurdles, finishing the finals race in 15.62 seconds.
- The 4x400 relay took third with a time of 3:23.01. Amoah, Boussouf, Elmogi and Sommer combined for the finish.
Final Standings
- Ursinus 215
- Johns Hopkins 187
- Dickinson 100
- McDaniel 86
- Muhlenberg 80
- Haverford 70
- Gettysburg 47
- Swarthmore 45
- Franklin & Marshall 28