UTICA,NY - The men's Utica University indoor track and field team concluded day two of the Blue & Orange Invitational on Saturday, January 26. The team took first place at the meet with 115 points and won three individual events, including both throws. 
 
The shot put was won by All-American shot put thrower Hunter Logan (Fort Plain, NY/Herkimer College). Logan's best throw of the afternoon of 15.89m gave him the win and was his second-best throw this season. The runner-up in that event was teammate Billie Mays III (Rome, NY/Rome Free Academy), who threw 14.09m. The weight throw was won by Justin Swavely (Rome, NY/RFA) with a best throw of 15.01m, and Joshua Talbot (Rome, NY/Rome Free Academy) was third (14.40m). 
 
The men's 4x200m team of Andrew Hadasz, Jonathan Simmons (Broadalbin, NY/Broadalbin-Perth), Evan Smith (Baldwinsville, NY/Baker), and Connor Dean (Taberg, Ny/Camden) posted a season-best time of 133.03m to take the win. 
 
Andrew Wieder (Clinton, NY/Clinton) finished off the remainder of heptathlon events, which were the 60m hurdles, pole vault, and 1,000m. Wieder placed sixth in the 60m hurdles (9.88), fourth in pole vault (3.35m), and third in the 1,000m (3:06.54) to rack up a total of 3,916 points to place fourth overall. This bests his previous season's best total of 3,907 points from early December.
 
The Pioneers posted some impressive times in the sprinting events on the afternoon. In the 60m, Andrew Hadasz ran a 7.06 in prelims to advance to finals, and ran that exact same time in the finals to place third overall. In the 400m, the freshman duo of Tanner Warren (Mohawk, NY/Central Valley Academy) and Dean ran personal best times. Warren ran 50.74 to take fourth, and Dean took sixth place with a 51.88. The regional mark of 50.50 is much within reach for each of them. Warren also ran the 200m for the first time this season and clocked in at 23.19 to take seventh out of a field of over 70 runners. 
 
In high jump, Theodore Tsamis (Richmondville, NY/Cobleskill-Richmondville) cleared 1.72m to place third overall, just shy of his personal best high jump of 1.75m on the season. 
 
The Pioneers will remain at home to host the Fast Trax Invite on Saturday, February 3. The meet is set to begin at 2 p.m.