MANKATO, MN – With the individuals from the women’s team in action on Saturday, the Wayne State College men’s indoor track & field team had several athletes take part in Thursday and Friday competition of the 2021 NSIC Indoor Championships.
From Myers Field House in Mankato, Minnesota, the Wildcat men’s indoor track & field team returned with a trio of All-NSIC performers and placed sixth with 35 points.
Minnesota State edged Augustana by 1.5 points (201.5-200) for the men’s team title with MSU Moorhead a distant third at 68 points. Northern State was fourth with 63.5 points followed by the University of Mary (49) and Wayne State sixth at 35 points.
Rounding out the team scoring were Minot State (31.5), Concordia-St. Paul (30), Upper Iowa (28), Minnesota Duluth (17), Southwest Minnesota State (15.5) and Sioux Falls (2).
Noah Lilly, a junior from Creighton, placed in two events to lead the Wildcats with one All-NSIC finish. He placed third in the heptathlon with 4,621 points and added a sixth place finish in the pole vault clearing 14’ ¼”.
Senior thrower Cade Kalkowski earned All-NSIC honors for a third time in his Wildcat career in the weight throw collecting a second-place finish with a mark of 66’ 2 ½”.
The final All-NSIC finisher for the Wildcats was senior shot putter Ben Allen, who recorded a third-place finish with a mark of 52’ 3 ¾”.
Freshman Dylan Kneifl posted a fourth-place finish in the high jump, clearing 6’ 6 ¾”, while Cole Christoffersen added a fourth place finish in the weight throw with a heave of 63’ 9 ¾”, an NCAA provisional qualifying mark.
Rounding out scorers for the Wildcat men were senior Brock Hegarty taking eighth in the 1,000-meter run at 2:34.97 and Mikhail Sands scored an eighth-place finish in the long jump at 21’ 11 ¾”.
The NSIC Women’s Indoor Championships will take place Saturday.