The University of Lynchburg men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams swept the Old Dominion Athletic Conference indoor championships for the third year in the row.
The Hornets swept the cross-country championships for the third season in a row back in October, and the Hornets already had won the past three outdoor championships. The pair of championships on Sunday means the Hornets won the past 18 championships when you combine the men’s and women’s cross-country, indoor, and outdoor trophies.
The men finished with 149 points, and the women earned 197 points in the indoor championship standings — the most points the women’s program ever scored at the championship meet. The women earned 194 points last season. The women defeated second-place Roanoke by 102 points, and the men enjoyed a 46-point margin over second-place Washington and Lee University. The men have now won 31 indoor trophies, while the women secured their 14th in program history.
The Hornets won 15 individual events during the two-day meet. The women scored at least one point in every event, except for the 60-meter dash.
The men earned their most points from the mile, where Chasen Hunt led five Hornets in the top-6. Kayla Werner won the mile with a 5:04.90, and Lauren Massey and Molly Silva placed third and fourth.
Betsy Mohnkern won the 60-meter hurdles with a personal-best 8.76. She owns the 12th-fastest hurdles time in Division III.
Sam Llaneza set a championship record in the 800-meter run with a 1:52.59. In the women’s 800 meters, Molly Silva, Lauren Thomas, and Annalise Williams placed second, third, and fourth, respectively.
Hunt followed up his first-place performance in the mile with another gold medal in the 3K, running 8:36.96. Frank Csorba finished right behind him with an 8:38.44. Werner also doubled up her gold in the mile with a goal in the 3K just like Hunt. Courtney Drumm, Allison Dell, and Massey finished second, third, and fourth behind Werner.
The Lynchburg 4×400-meter relay teams rounded out Sunday with a sweep of the relays, representative of the teams’ sweep of the championships overall. Gabriel Kwakye, Zachary Jacobs, Brian Flowers, and Jacob Hodnett won the men’s relay with a 3:24.10. Hodnett closed a significant gap on the last lap and beat out Randolph’s anchor by .38 seconds. Mohnkern, Vuronika Barnes, Hannah Edwards, and Allison Bobst won the women’s relay with a 4:02.26.
Seward won the triple jump with an 11.59m jump (38′ 0.75″). Bobst won the only other field event for the men or women on Sunday with a 3.58m (11′ 8.75″) vault for first place.
On Saturday, Csorba won the men’s 5K, Drumm won the women’s 5K, Danny Miller, Brian Flowers, Jamison Mantooth, and Sam Llaneza won the distance medley relay for the men, Kayla Werner, Thomas, Williams, and Kirsten Werner won the women’s DMR, and Seward won the long jump.
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