The Carthage College men's indoor track and field team (49-15) finished third at the Friday-Saturday, Feb. 25-26 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Indoor Track and Field Championship at Illinois Wesleyan University's Shirk Center in Bloomington, Ill. 

North Central College won its 11th indoor championship with 245.50 points, followed by Augustana College (Ill.) second at 155, Carthage third at 95.50, Illinois Wesleyan University fourth at 85, Elmhurst College fifth at 32, Millikin University sixth at 26 and North Park University seventh with 17 points. 

 

Carthage's Jose Flores (Jr., Round Lake, Ill./Fox Lake-Grant Community) won the 800-meter run (NCAA-provisional 1:54.90).  Mike Oratowski (Jr., Wheaton, Ill./Glen Ellyn-Glenbard South) finished second in the 55-meter high hurdles (7.76), as did Cale Brown (Fr., Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) in the triple jump (45-7) and Brad Fortney (Sr., Antioch, Ill./Antioch Community) in the shot put (51-8 ¼) . 

Prentis Wilbourn (Sr., Racine, Wis./Case) was third in the triple jump (44-8 ¾), as was Justin Sebens (Sr., Seymour, Ill./Mahomet-Seymour) in the high jump (6-5 ½) and Jarrayl Johnson (Sr., Flossmoor, Ill./South Holland-Thornwood) in the shot put (51-7).  Greg Raimondi (Jr., Harwood Heights, Ill./Norridge-Ridgewood) took fourth place in both the shot put (51-0) and the weight throw (58-4 ½), while Marshall Stewart (Jr., Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) was fourth in the 400-meter dash (50.22).

 

The Red Men play host to the Carthage “Gill Athletics Last Chance Invitational” on Friday, March 4 at the Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center in Kenosha, Wis., beginning at 4 p.m.