Gilpatric wins 5 km to the eight hits of headline bucs on Friday at Big South Championships

Columbia -Charleston Southern completed her first day of the Big South Indoor Echtachtics Championships 2025 on Friday. There were three finals that took place on Friday, with the BUCs scored eight points in those, including four podium places.

Micah Gilpatric The campaign of the day led the victory in 5 km with a tactical period of 14: 47.73. Jaden Kinglsey achieved a third place in the race with a time of 14: 50.53. Martin Iriondo And Hayden Goode were also among the top eight and took fourth place with 14: 51.65 and 7^TH With 15: 05.79.

The men's shot was another hotly competitive battle all day. Michael Calhoun threw an 18.17 m in the event to break his career and school record in the event and to place yourself on 6^TH In the great southern history. He was leading through five attempts until Quentin Peterson from Gardner Webb threw a meet record to survive Calhoun and get victory. Dexter RatliffPresent Odin conference And Aaron Pierce Also in the event that everyone claimed a top nine finish. Ratliff had a personal best of 16.01 m to climb 5^TH in school history and take 4^TH At the meeting. Ferency went 15.72 m for 5^TH While Pierce had a personal best of 14.45 m for 9^TH.

The distance medley of men ran a time of 10: 08.57 with the squad with Liam O'Donell, Luciano CustodioPresent Kaden Kleinhen And Mason Raasch. They took second place at the meeting and left the 7^TH Fastest time in school history.

There were also the prelims of the 400 m and 800 m, which were held during the day and four athletes were sent until the final. Luciano Custodio Run with a time of 47.88 one best of the season in the 400 m to acquire an ascent on time. In the 800 m, O'Donnell, K. Kleinhen and Collin Kleinhen Everyone moved with a top three in the heat. C. Kleinhen had the fastest time in the group 1: 53.95 for a personal best and 6^TH The fastest in school history. Raasch also ran in it and had a best of the season of 1: 54.91, who missed the final from a place when he demanded ninth place.

Due to the five events achieved, Charleston Southern sits in second place with a team value of 48 points. High Point is the entire leader with 70 points and Gardner-Webb is in third place with 30.

The campaign for tomorrow is planned for a start at 2 p.m. and 1 p.m. in field events for the last day of the Big South Indoor Athletics Championships 2025. The action can be kept up to date with the live results under the following link.