@ButlerXCTF Set New Lifetime Bests at the IU Relays and Illini Challenge

1/28/2023 6:37:00 PM | By: Ethan Polak

IU Relays: Full Results
Illini Challenge: Full Results

The Butler track and field team split up this week to compete at two different meets.

Most of the team returned to Bloomington, Ind. for the second consecutive week at the IU Relays. The remaining four runners traveled to Urbana-Champaign, Ill. for the Illini Challenge.

Inside the Gladstein Fieldhouse, Jesse Hamlin left his mark on school history at the IU Relays.

Hamlin placed second in the 800 meters at 1:49.21. His mark broke the school record set in 2016 by Johnny Leverenz at the 2016 BIG EAST Indoor Championships.

Barry Keane and Angelina Ellis followed by earning a pair of second-place finishes in the men's and women's 3000 meters. Keane crossed the finish line at 7:59.23 and Ellis at 9:23.69.

Over at the University of Illinois Armory for the Illini Challenge, Niki Ezeh, competing unattached, claimed the top spot in the women's indoor pentathlon.

Ezeh scored 4,003 points setting a new personal best and winning three of the five events, including the 60-meter hurdles, long jump, and shot put. Her mark topped the pentathlon score by unattached Butler athlete Becca Coan who went on to win the heptathlon at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships.

Other notable finishes:

Luke Finnegan and Gavin Cougle finished side-by-side in the men's 200 meters. The duo placed fourth and fifth at 21.61 and 21.79.
Karmen Koch earned a new season best in all five events of the women's indoor pentathlon securing a fifth-place finish with 3,695 points.
Jack Elder finished seventh in the men's pentathlon scoring 4324 points.
Lexi Affolter set a new lifetime best in the women's mile at 5:12.06 to place seventh.
Carter Schorr ran 4:22.18 in the men's mile to place seventh
Jack McMahon scratched five seconds off his personal best in the men's 3000 meters to cross the line in 8:06.43
Remi Beckham earns a new lifetime best of 2,995 points in the women's indoor pentathlon.

The Bulldogs will regroup and head to South Bend, Ind. for the Meyo Invitational from Feb. 3-4.

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