Men's Outdoor Track and Field | 4/6/2024 8:50:00 PM

SELINSGROVE, Pa. – The Bloomsburg men's track & field team earned four event wins at the Jim Taylor Invitational hosted by Susquehanna University on Saturday.
 
Finnegan Purtle (/) claimed victory in the 400-meter, posting a personal-best time of 50.74. Robert Wilson (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon) finished second with a time of 50.87.
 
Wilson and Purtle joined Andrew Basile (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) and Brayden Graham (Stroudsburg, Pa./Stroudsburg) to run a winning time of 3:28.53 in the in the 4x400-meter relay. Their time places the Huskies in sixth on the PSAC performance list.
 
Basile, Wilson, Doug Walsh (Old Forge, Pa./Holy Cross High School) and Harrison Cronan (Morgantown, Pa./Twin Valley) won the 4x100-meter relay with a time of 43.42.
 
Kaleb Zimmerman (Lancaster, Pa./Garden Spot) placed first in the shot put with a throw of 13.41-meters.
 
Walsh achieved a mark of 48.65-meters in the javelin throw, placing second with a personal best. He also ran a personal-best in the 110-meter hurdles with an eighth-place time of 16.74.
 
Peter Tepper (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill East) ran a 1:58.93 in the 800-meter, finishing in second. Peyton Riley (Danville, Pa./Danville Area) finished in fourth with a time of 2:00.20.
 
Riley posted a third-place time of 4:04.83 in the 1500-meters while Graham placed fifth with a time of 4:11.46.
 
Dillon Steffy (Elliotsburg, Pa./West Perry High School) and Tyler Lobos (/) cleared a height of 4.05-meters in the pole vault to claim second and third, respectively.
 
The Huskies return to action on Thursday, April 11 as they head back to Selinsgrove for the SU Outdoor Multi and Invite.