THE BASICS:
 
- Meet: Amherst Spring Fling
 
- Location: Amherst, Mass. (Neuhoff-Lumley Track)
 
- The Lead: The MIT men's track and field team won nine events and generated five nationally ranked performances at the Amherst Spring Fling on Sunday.
 
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
 
Shot Put
- Junior Sam Engebretson (Sioux Falls, S.D.) won shot put with a distance of 15.89m (52' 1.75").
 
3000m Steeplechase
- Sophomore Jake Cobb (West Deptford, N.J.) won the event by 18 seconds as he crossed the finish line in 9:24.26 while first-year Hunter Miller (Greencastle, Ind.) was eighth (10:14.38).
 
4x100 Relay
- Comprised of graduate student Mozi Guobadia (Baton Rouge, La.), sophomore Nolan Clement (Fullerton, Calif.), senior Garrett Whitmore (Webster City, Iowa), and sophomore Patrick Haertel (Cumming, Ga.), MIT finished first with a time of 41.35 which ranks seventh in Division III this season.
 
Javelin
- First-year Jonah Goldstein (Pasadena, Calif.) claimed the victory with a distance of 50.06m (164' 3").
 
110m Hurdles
- Sophomore Enoch Ellis (Garland, Texas) captured first place with a time of 14.77.
 
High Jump
- First-year Anthony Meng (Scottsdale, Ariz.) cleared 2.09m (6' 10.25") to win the event while sophomore Jackson Bliey (Talleyville, Del.) was the runner up at 2.06m (6' 9").
- Meng currently ranks second in the nation while Biley is fourth.
 
800m
- The Engineers placed five student-athletes in the top eight. Junior Ziyad Hassan (Ashburn, Va.) finished first with a time of 1:51.87, followed by junior Simon Opsahl (Redlands, Calif.) in second place (1:52.09), first-year David Whitaker (Northville, Mich.) in fourth with a PR of 1:53.34, sophomore Charlie Glass (Austin, Texas) in sixth (1:54.09), and junior Sam Coutts (Pacific Grove, Calif.) in eighth place with a PR of 1:54.94.
- Hassan's time ranks seventh in the country while Opsahl's is 11^th.
 
Triple Jump
- Graduate student Kenneth Wei (Mount Sinai, N.Y.) won the triple jump with a leap of 14.17m (46' 6") while sophomore Sean Huckleberry (San Francisco, Calif.) was third with a distance of 13.60m (44' 7.50").
- Wei's performance ranks 13^th in Division III this season.
 
Discus
- Engebretson claimed the victory with a mark of 48.79m (160' 1"), which currently ranks 17^th in the nation.
 
100m
- Haertel was the runner up with a time of 10.79 as Clement and Guobadia finished fourth (10.99) and fifth (11.01), respectively.
 
Hammer Throw
- Engebretson placed second with a distance of 54.90m (180' 1") while first-year Connor Kalvar (Floyd's Knobs, Ind.) was sixth (49.97m / 163' 11").
 
Long Jump
- Huckleberry finished second with a PR of 6.68m (21' 11").
 
4x400 Relay
- Comprised of first-year Davis Lee (Mountain Brook, Ala.), first-year Connor Sterling (New Milford, Conn.), sophomore Dylan Bradford (Highland, Md.), and Whitaker, MIT claimed second place with a time of 3:24.54.
 
200m
- Haertel, senior Will Liu (San Marino, Calif.), and sophomore Kristian Praizner (Folsom, Pa.) all set personal records. Haertel led the way with a third-place finish in 21.95, followed by Liu in sixth (22.19) and Praizner in seventh (22.21).
 
Pole Vault
- Sophomore Sawyer Garrett (Sherborn, Mass.) tied for third place with a height of 4.30m (14' 1.25") while senior Trey Gurga (San Diego, Calif.) tied for fifth place at 4.15m (13' 7.25").
 
- Below are the current top-20 rankings for the Engineers, from meets up to this point in the season as listed at www.tfrrs.org.
 
100 Meters
11. Patrick Haertel – 10.59 (Raleigh Relays)
 
800 Meters
7. Ziyad Hassan – 1:51.87 (Amherst Spring Fling)
11. Simon Opsahl – 1:52.09 (Amherst Spring Fling)
 
10,000 Meters
13. Vedang Lad – 29:56.72 (Raleigh Relays)
16. Lowell Hensgen – 30:08.49 (Raleigh Relays)
 
110m Hurdles
4. Walter Truitt – 14.27 (Raleigh Relays)
8. Kenneth Wei – 14.38 (Raleigh Relays)
 
4x100 Relay
7. Mozi Guobadia, Nolan Clement, Garrett Whitmore, Patrick Haertel – 41.35 (Amherst Spring Fling)
 
High Jump
2. Anthony Meng – 2.09m / 6' 10.25" (Amherst Spring Fling)
4. Jackson Bliey – 2.06m / 6' 9" (Amherst Spring Fling)
 
Long Jump
7. Kenneth Wei – 7.21m / 23' 8" (Raleigh Relays)
 
Triple Jump
13. Kenneth Wei – 14.17m / 46' 6" (Amherst Spring Fling)
 
Shot Put
10. Sam Engebretson – 16.41m / 53' 10.25" (Raleigh Relays)
 
Discus
17. Sam Engebretson – 48.79m / 160' 1" (Amherst Spring Fling)
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT will compete in the two-day UConn Northeast Challenge beginning on Friday, April 12.
 
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