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Gerke win highlights inaugural Crossroads League Invite effort for HU trackmen

A win by Brooks Gerke in the heptathlon highlighted a trip to the inaugural Crossroads League Invitational by the Huntington University men’s track and field team on Friday, Feb. 17, and Saturday, Feb. 18, at Indiana Wesleyan University.

The Foresters finished eighth at the meet with 29 points, with 10 of those being scored by Gerke in the heptathlon. The senior tallied 4,515 points in the event, slotting him 11th nationally and likely earning him a trip to the NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships.

Gerke also posted a record-breaking performance in long jump, leaping 6.81 meters to best the school’s mark.

Freshman Bradey Gerke finished fourth in triple jump with a mark of 11.71 meters while Michael Bowman and Luke Fillers each brought home a sixth-place finish in the 600-meter run, in 1:25.47, and pole vault, 3.70 meters, respectively.

Codi Wiersema crossed the line seventh in the mile by posting a personal-record time of 4:30.61 which also earned him the 10th spot in the Huntington record book. The Foresters’ other points came by way of seventh-place finishes in three relays, the 1,600 in 3:40.42; 3,200 in 8:53.65; and distance medley in 11:41.73.

Indiana Wesleyan won the invitational with 157.5 points, followed by Marian, 141.5; Taylor, 135.5; Grace, 95; Spring Arbor, 62; Mount Vernon, 40.5; Goshen, 37; Huntington, 29; and Saint Francis, 9.