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Angelina Ellis 3K Gold Medal 2023 BIG EAST Championships
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Gold Medals by Ellis and Elder Highlight the Final Day of the BIG EAST Indoor Championships

| By: Ethan Polak
Final Results

The Butler track and field team secured five more medals on Saturday for the final day of the BIG EAST Indoor Championships.

Angelina Ellis earned her second gold medal of the weekend in the women's 3,000 meters. She outkicked two Georgetown runners in the last stretch of the race to post a time of 9:10.63. 

Jack Elder excelled in the final three events of the men's indoor heptathlon to take home another gold medal. Elder set a new lifetime best with a score of 5051 points after winning the 60m hurdles and finishing in the top four of the pole vault and 1000 meters. 

The Bulldog men added three more silver medals to the collection.

Luke Finnegan came in second for the 60m with a time of 6.76. Finnegan broke his previous school record from the Blue & Gold Invitational in December.  

For the first time in his Butler career, Jesse Hamlin broke four minutes in the mile, capturing second at 3:59.25. Hamlin was less than a second shy of breaking Simon Bedard's record from last season. 

Rounding out the podium finishes was Gavin Cougle in the men's 400 meters at 47.76. His mark was a new personal best and half a second away from rewriting history. 

The Butler men's 4x800 relay unit of Carter Schorr, Xavier Wills, Michael Dunagan, and Bennett DuBois broke the school record at 7:36.40 to place fifth. The quartet for the 4x400 relay placed fourth with a time of 3:15.33. 

In the field, Drew Herman missed the podium in the high jump after losing a tiebreaker to a Marquette high jumper. Herman came in fourth matching his personal best with a leap of 2.00 meters. 

The Butler men's squad placed fifth accumulating 78 points, which was a half point behind Marquette in fourth. The Bulldog women scored 47 points to finish seventh.

Final Men's Team Results (18 events scored)
  1. UConn - 199.5 points
  2. Villanova - 98
  3. DePaul - 95
  4. Marquette - 78.5
  5. Butler - 78
  6. Georgetown - 71
  7. Providence - 55
  8. Xavier - 4
Final Women's Team Results (18 events scored)
  1. UConn - 169 points
  2. DePaul - 111
  3. Georgetown - 99
  4. Villanova - 89
  5. St. John's - 83
  6. Marquette - 50 
  7. Butler - 47 
  8. Providence - 46
  9. Xavier - 8
The Bulldogs with the top qualifying times this season will have a week off before heading to Albuquerque, N.M. for the NCAA Championships on March 10-11. 
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