| Complete Results (PDF) | Day One Recap

• The Panthers set a new school record for points (131) earned at a Big South Indoor Championship
• Redshirt-senior Tristan Faure broke his own school record in the heptathlon (5017 points) en route to a first-place finish
• Junior Dennis Crawford won the first 60m hurdles title in school history with a time of 8.35 seconds.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – On the strength of three event victories and a number of other strong finishes, the High Point University men's track & field team scored a school record 131 points to finish third at the Big South Indoor Championships Friday at the JDL Fast Track.
 
The third place finish matches last year's showing, although HPU improved upon its 2014 point total by 23. Liberty won the team title with a total of 235 points while Campbell was second with 146 points. After HPU, Gardner-Webb finished fourth with 79 points while Winthrop (49) and UNC Asheville (15) rounded out the scoring.
 
Redshirt-senior Tristan Faure shined for HPU on the final day of competition, breaking his own school record in the heptathlon to claim the event title. His 5017 points usurped his previous high of 5000 set at last season's indoor league meet. After sitting in third place through four events Thursday, Faure won the 60m hurdles (8.52) and pole vault (4.40m, 14-5.25) and finished second in the 1000m run (2:49.58) to surge past the field and into a first-place showing.
 
The Big South heptathlon title is the first in HPU history.
 
Junior Dennis Crawford captured the 60m hurdles title with a strong time of 8.35 seconds. Crawford's Big South hurdles title is the second of his career as the Clover, S.C., native also won the 110m hurdles title at the 2014 Big South Outdoor Championships. It marks the first time an HPU student-athlete has won the league's 60m hurdles event.
 
In sprints action, freshman James House ran a fantastic 60m dash en route to a second-place finish. House picked up eight points for HPU after crossing the finish line in 6.97 seconds. Junior Andrew Kuras earned four points for the Panthers with a fifth place finish (7.06 seconds).
 
House paced HPU again in the 200m dash with another strong race. The freshman posted a season-best time of 22.23 seconds to finish second and earn eight more points for the Panthers. Kuras was right behind in third place with an indoor best time of 22.60.
 
Junior Paul O'Donoghue just missed victory in the 800m run by .09 seconds as the Franklin, Mass., native placed second to earn eight points for HPU. O'Donoghue posted a time of 1:55.55, while sophomore Luke Goodrich finished sixth in 1:59.34.
 
The men's 4x400m relay team put together an excellent race to finish second in a time of 3:24.31. The Panther quartet was composed of O'Donoghue, Goodrich, Crawford and junior Nick Hula.
 
After finishing fourth in the long jump Thursday, junior Will Narramore matched that showing with a fourth-place finish in the triple jump Friday. The Nashville, Tenn., native picked up five points for HPU with an indoor PR of 14,32m (46-11.75). Sophomore Andrew Mahon placed 10^th with a mark of 11.90m.
 
The Panthers picked up 10 points in the mile run, led by a third-place finish from freshman James Quattlebaum. The Greenville, S.C., native crossed the finish line in a collegiate PR of 4:17.45. O'Donoghue placed fifth in 4:20.88, while junior Benji Szalai was eighth in 4:26.17. Freshman Ryan Udvadia placed ninth in 4:29.03.
 
In the 5000m run, junior Paddy Grandinali led the Panthers with a sixth-place finish in an indoor PR of 14:51.49. Senior Chris Colo finished seventh in an indoor PR of 14:57.87, while junior Cody Seymour was ninth in 15:17.36. Sophomore Chernet Sisay placed 11^th in 15:26.73.
 
Senior Christian Spaulding just missed his school record weight throw by .12m as the Middletown, N.J., native finished eighth with a mark of 15.63m (51-3.50). The eighth-place showing earned one point for HPU.

"Despite all the ups and downs, the men's team came out almost exactly as predicted in pre-meet rankings," associate head coach Eric Dudley said. "We had some great individual performances from Tristan, Austin, Dennis, James House & Andrew Kuras, James Quattlebaum, Paul O'Donoghue, the DMR and the 4x400m relays.  Will missed out on the podium, but had a great competitive effort progressively jumping farther and farther as the competition went on.  We took care of business on the top end.  We failed to capitalize on some of the depth related opportunities, picking up the 6th-8th spots that really could have propelled us forward.  We appreciate the effort, the heart, and the passion of this team.  We need to be better at putting that into generating performance outcomes from that."
 
At the end of the meet, O'Donoghue was named the Big South Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The junior carries a 3.9 GPA and is majoring in mathematics. He posted a combined 20 points for the Panthers in the 800m run, mile run and 4x400 meter relay.

HPU's 2015 outdoor track & field season gets under way March 20-21 at the Wake Forest Open in Winston-Salem, N.C.
 
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