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Nathaniel Wahner Sets CWRU Record at All-Ohio Championships

Nathaniel Wahner Sets CWRU Record at All-Ohio Championships

From Case Western Reserve University Athletics

With just a week remaining before the 2017 University Athletic Association Championships, the Case Western Reserve University track and field teams appeared to be in top form on Saturday, with senior Nathaniel Wahner setting a program record at the All-Ohio Outdoor Championships in Delaware, Ohio.

Wahner earned All-Ohio honors with a first-place finish in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.67 seconds to best the previous school record of 10.78 seconds, set by Steve Ims during the 1989 season. Wahner added another All-Ohio honor in the 200-meter dash, placing first with a time of 22.23 seconds.

For the men, sophomore Ananth Suresh finished third in the triple jump with a distance of 13.18 meters, and the Spartans' 4x100-meter relay team of Wahner, junior Ben Zelkin, junior Zak Hurd and junior Adrian Cannon finishing third in the event with a time of 42.43 seconds.

Other scoring performances (top-eight finishes) for the CWRU men came from freshman Dominic Oddo in the long jump (fourth, 6.70m), freshman Brian Holden in the javelin (fourth, 51.35m), senior Bryan Kelly in the 10,000-meter run (fourth, 34:52.32), sophomore Robert Iriye in the 10,000-meter run (seventh, 35:31.46), junior Ben Whitman in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (eighth, 10:07.14), junior Aidan DeSanto in the 1,500-meter run (eighth, 4:08.57), junior Grant Mlack in the 110-meter hurdles (sixth, 15.22 seconds), freshman Jonathan Haling in the 400-meter dash (seventh, 50.32), freshman David Hallin the 5,000-meter run (eighth, 15:54.27), Cannon in the 200-meter dash (seventh, 23.11 seconds) and the 4x400-meter relay team of Wahner, Haling, sophomore Joseph Cabral and freshman Michael Hradesky (fourth, 3:22.37).

The men also dominated in the 800-meter run, with Cabral finishing fourth (1:56.57), senior Joe Ledger finishing fifth (1:56.86) and Hradesky finishing sixth (1:57.98).

The Spartan men finished third out of 17 teams at the meet with 76 points.