Men's Outdoor Track and Field | 4/20/2025 12:36:00 AM

LEWISBURG, Pa. – The Bloomsburg men's track and field team placed seventh at the Bucknell Team Challenge with 25 points on Saturday as Justin Hermann recorded a new Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) qualifying mark in the 110-meter hurdles. Overall, the team combined for 16 top tens and 15 personal bests.
 
Justin Hermann ran a 15.20 in the 110-meter hurdles to exactly hit the PSAC qualifying mark as he took sixth overall in the event. Hermann ran a personal best time of 1:02.12 in the 400-meter hurdles while his teammate Brady Deivert (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove Area) set a personal best time of 57.97 to take eighth.
 
Jaxson Hoffman (/) placed sixth in the 100-meters with a personal-best time of 10.98. Tyler Leitzel (/) took tenth, running an 11.04 while Patrick Moore (Blakeslee, Pa./Commonwealth Charter Academy) ran an 11.30 to set a personal best.
 
Leitzel finished ninth in the 200-meters with a time of 22.24. Moore posted his second PR of the day with a 23.17 while Bryce Pattillo set a personal best with 24.13.
 
The 400-meters saw Pattillo, Jalik Hill (Lebanon, Pa./Lebanon), Landon Kester () and Lucas Pearson (/) each set personal bests. Peyton Riley (Danville, Pa./Danville Area) took tenth in the 1,500-meter with a time of 4:05.44 while Peter Tepper (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill East), Colin Snyder (Dillsburg, Pa./Northern York) and Ryan Casagrande (/) ran personal bests.
 
Caden Dufrene (Watsontown, Pa./Warrior Run High School) finished tenth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:38.83 while Brady Dowell (Williamsport, Pa./Loyalsock Township) ran a 12:22.65 to post a PR.
 
The Huskies 4x100 relay squad of Christopher Brittingham (Royersford, Pa./Spring-Ford), Peter Umbenhaur (Somerville, N.J./Somerville), Leitzel and Moore took fifth with a time of 42.42. in the 4x400-meter relay, Pattillo, Hill, Kester and Tepper placed fifth, running a 3:28.64. William Burdett (Williamsport, Pa./Loyalsock Township), Evan Mann (Medford, N.J./Shawnee), Aiden Corrigan (/) and Deivert finished eighth with a time of 3:39.40.
 
In the field, Trevor Johnson (Kintnersville, Pa./Palisades, Pa.) picked up a pair of top ten finishes. Johnson set a personal best in the triple jump with a fifth-place jump of 13.55-meters. In the long jump, Johnson placed ninth with a mark of 6.46-meters.
 
In the javelin throw, the Huskies amassed three top-ten finishes. Brian O'Connor (/) took sixth with a 49.62-meter throw. Matthew Staffin (Sugarloaf, Pa./Hazleton Area) placed eighth with a throw of 48.21 meters. Jackson Baldini (Mechanicsburg, PA/Mechanicsburg Area) threw a mark of 43.81 meters.
 
Kaleb Zimmerman (Lancaster, Pa./Garden Spot) placed tenth in the shot put with a mark of 13.65 meters while Ryan Walker (/) set a personal best with a mark of 12.23 meters.
 
The Huskies get back to action next Friday when they host their annual Maroon & Gold Meet at Redman Stadium. The field events will get underway at 2:30 p.m. while the track events will start approximately at 4:30 p.m. The Huskies will celebrate their graduating seniors midway through the meet.