Sheppard Wins 5000m, DeWolfe Leads Heptathlon on Opening Day of Patriot Games

FAIRFAX, Va. – George Mason monitor and subject welcomed the indoor season again to Fairfax on Friday, opening the Patriot Games on the Field House for his or her first dwelling meet of the yr. Action started at 4 p.m. with the ladies’s pentathlon 60m hurdles, formally kicking off the mixed occasions. Competition continued all through the night as the ladies’s pentathlon and males’s heptathlon unfolded alongside finals within the girls’s and males’s 5000m run, highlighting the half-day schedule.

On the monitor, Morgan Ryerson, the only Patriot competing within the girls’s pentathlon, recorded a season-best 8.96 within the 60m hurdles to open the meet. Sophomore Nicholas DeWolfe adopted with a personal-best 7.08 within the 60m as a part of the lads’s heptathlon.

George Mason’s multi-events athletes continued their spectacular showings within the subject occasions. DeWolfe registered one other private report by clearing 1.80m within the excessive leap, whereas freshman Alexander Pilipski additionally set a private finest with a mark of 1.74m. DeWolfe bested the remainder of the sphere in lengthy leap (6.68m) and shot put (12.45m), sitting in first place within the males’s heptathlon after 4 occasions, with three remaining tomorrow. Making his heptathlon debut for the Patriots, Pilipski at the moment sits sixth in a subject of 11.

Several distance runners took to the monitor for the Green and Gold within the 5000m run. On the ladies’s facet, senior Abigail Graham and freshman Lindsey Meadows represented the Patriots. The males’s race featured sophomores Bryson Barnett, Jackson Rowe, and Max Vom Saal, junior Biruk Beardsley, and seniors Robbie Jenkins and Lloyd Sheppard. Barnett (14:55.87) and Rowe (15:21.04) each set private bests, whereas Jenkins completed third with a time of 14:33.02. Sheppard claimed the primary occasion win for the Patriots on the dwelling meet with a time of 14:21.93 and enters the George Mason indoor all-time program report books in fourth.

The Patriots will return to motion tomorrow for Day Two of the Patriot Games to finish the lads’s heptathlon and the remainder of the scheduled occasions. A whole meet schedule and live results can be found on-line to observe the Patriots’ performances.