Meet Recap: School record in 4x400 relay highlights men at Carnegie Mellon Invitational

PITTSBURGH -- Point Park University men's track and field went to the Carnegie Mellon University Invitational this weekend for Week 3 of the outdoor season. A school record in the 4x400 relay highlighted the two days for the Pioneers men's squad. 

The Point Park men finished off the meet in a big way running 3:20.28 in the final event of the two days. That beat out the previous school record of 3:22 and was just about two and a half seconds off the NAIA national qualifying time. 

Combining on the mile relay record was Damir Lomax, Ramiro Ulunque, Juan Barrera and Elijah James. Their performance placed second in the race. 

It was a good day for relays with Point Park's 4x100 relay placing third and coming within 1.40 seconds of qualifying for nationals. That was with the group of Dorian Boatswain, Lomax, Barrera and Akeem Mustapha running a time of 42.80 seconds. 

Lomax was Point Park's top performer in the 100 and 200 taking fourth and fifth in those events, respectively. Lomax ran 10.93 in the 100 and 22.43 in the 200. 

Mills posted Point Park's victory on the day winning the 110 hurdles. His time of 14.95 seconds won by 0.01 seconds. Teammate Gavin Glass was sixth at 16.00 seconds. 

Mustapha came in second place in the long jump leaping 6.61 meters. Maxwell Goode was 11th at 6.14 meters. Xavier Tolliver registered 10th place in the triple jump at 11.31 meters. 

The Pioneers had four runners in the 400 with James (50.19) and Barrera (50.37) placing fifth and seventh, respectively to lead the way. 

Jannik Windelband running a PR in the 800 at 1:55.81 and Ramiro Ulunque doing the same in the 1,500 at 4:01.82 were some mid-distance highlights and a pair of Top-10 placements. 

Luke McKenna (9:16) and Joshua Gosselin (9:29) both came in under the previous school record in the rare outdoor 3,000 meters race. Jordan Kullen (16:34) paced the Pioneers in the 5,000 meters for an outdoor PR.

Chevaughn Fletcher led the Pioneers in all four throwing events. He was third in the javelin at 53.48 meters. The Pioneers had four in the top 11 placements with Ben Blahovec sixth, Cooper Lytle ninth and David Attram 11th. 

Fletcher also registered ninth in the discus (38.04 meters), fifth in the shot put (14.51) and 12th in the hammer (43.03). 

The Pioneers will be in action again next weekend at George Mason and also the Slippery Rock Dave Labor Invitational.