Owls take fifth in annual Gomez Invitational

4/18/2026 7:27:00 PM

GAMBIER, Ohio -- Running at home and hosting the annual Duane Gomez Invitational on Wilder Track, the Kenyon College men's track and field team scored 92.5 points on Saturday and finished in fifth place.

Ohio Wesleyan University won the event with 164 points. Mount Vernon Nazarene University was second with 148 points and Wittenberg University finished third in the six-team field, scoring 126.5 points.

A good chunk of the Owls' point total came from a trio of second-place finishes turned in by senior Colt Murphy, as well as sophomores Caleb Low and Graham Yeager. Each member of that trio put eight Kenyon points on the board.

Murphy was runner-up in the 1,500-meter run, clocking in with a personal-record time of 4:01.91. After that, Low finished second in the 5,000-meter race. He crossed the finish line in 15:46.70. Over in field events, Yeager flipped the discus a distance of 145-9 (44.42 meters) for his second-place showing.

Kenyon also chalked up another eight points in the 4x400-meter relay, as Julius Thompson, Kudzaishe Mhere, Marius Mazeika, and Josh Greville clocked in with a runner-up time of 3:26.07.

Third-place finishes on the track for Kenyon came from senior Noah Hopkins, who finished the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:02.95. In field events, senior Ezekiel Kiwanuka took third with a personal-best measurement of 21-2 (6.45 meters) in the long jump. First-year Zavier McGhee was third in the triple jump, covering 40-1¼ (12.22 meters). Additionally, senior J'Sun Gardner claimed a third-place finish in the javelin with a throw that measured 147-2 (44.86 meters).

Just missing out on top-three finishes were first-year Champ Blose, who completed the 1,500 in 4:03.42, and sophomore Luke Galik, who finished off the steeplechase in 10:17.83. Those two both ended up with fourth-place finishes.

Kenyon has just one more regular-season meet left, Friday at Denison University, before preparing to host the North Coast Athletic Conference Championship on May 1-2.

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