The Purdue Northwest Indoor men's track and field team hosted and competed in their inaugural PNW Collegiate Opener on Friday. The men's team was led by JC Ramirez (Odessa, Texas/Odessa) who took 1st place in the triple jump and sophomore Jackson Bakker (Lowell, Ind./Lowell HS) grabbed 1st place in the mile run.

The Basics

• PNW Collegiate Opener
• Chicago, Ill. - Gately Indoor Track & Field Facility

 
Notable results:
 

• Men's 60M: Sophomore Ryan Coleman (Lansing, Ill./Thornton Fractional South) took 2nd with a time of 7.04.
• Men's Mile: Bakker led with a 1st place finish with a time of 4:29.73 and junior Quinton Bock (Crown Point, Ind./Crown Point HS) took 3rd with 4:36.37 time.
• 4x400 Relay: Senior Jonathan Davis (Kennesaw, Ga./Allatoona), sophomore Max Nauman (Skokie, Ill./Niles West), junior Bruce Leipart (Hobart, Ind./Hobart HS), and senior Corrion Matthews (St. Louis, Mo./Hazelwood Central) ran a time of 3:22.39 to finish 2nd place.
• Men's Triple Jump: Ramirez ended in 1st place jumping 14.40m and junior Andre Taylor (West Palm Beach, Fla./Palm Beach Lakes) finished in 3rd place with a distance of 13.89m.
• Men's High Jump: Sophomore Eli Baumann (Allendale, Mich./Allendale) led the Pride with a 2nd place finish jumping 1.93m and sophomore Byron Chandler (Chesterton, Ind./Chesterton) finished 3rd with a jump of 1.78m.
• Men's Long Jump: Sophomore Lucas Bass (Maple Park, Ill./Kaneland) took 2nd with a distance of 6.51m.

 
Up Next

• The men's track team will be back in action on Friday, December 8 in Allendale, Mich. for the GVSU Holiday Open. Meet time is scheduled for 12:00 PM CT.