Results

The Carthage College men's indoor track and field team (11-5) finished second at the Friday, Jan. 25 Carthage “Tadd Metzger Invitational” at the Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center in Kenosha, Wis. 

North Central College won the nine-team event with 262 points, followed by Carthage second at 112.50, Wisconsin-Stevens Point third at 103.50, Carroll University (Wis.) fourth at 50, Wisconsin-Parkside fifth at 47, Illinois-Chicago sixth at 46.50, Wheaton College (Ill.) seventh at 32, Concordia University (Wis.) eighth at 19.50 and Loyola University (Ill.) ninth with 10 points.
 
Unfortunately, an anticipated high-jump showdown fizzled out.  Carthage's Trevor James (Jr., Maywood, Ill./Chicago Hope Academy), the defending-national-champion in the NCAA Division III outdoor high jump, was expected to compete against defending-indoor-champion Zach Mixdorf (Jr., Stevens Point, Wis./Stevens Point Area) from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.  Mixdorf won last year's indoor title with a 6-11 leap at Grinnell College, while James won the outdoor championship with a 6-10 ¼ effort in Claremont, Calif.  Mixdorf, however, fell ill on Friday and did not make the trip to Kenosha.  James won the event on Friday with a 6-10 ¼ effort, equaling his mark from last spring.
 
Carthage's Derrik Guyette (So., Hortonville, Wis.) won both the shot put (51-10 ½) and the weight throw (58-9 ¼), and Cale Brown (Jr., Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) won the triple jump (45-7 ¼).  Eric Schmidt (Sr., Kewaunee, Wis.) was second in the weight throw (56-8 ½), as was Kendric Cornelius (Fr., Palatine, Ill.) in the long jump (22-3) and Nick Blakey (St. Joseph, Ill./St. Joseph-Ogden) in the triple jump (41-7 ¾).  Mark Balmes (Fr., Mount Prospect, Ill./Arlington Heights-Hersey) was third in the weight throw (48-0).
 
Carthage travels to Bloomington, Ill., on Friday-Saturday, Feb. 1-2 for the Illinois Wesleyan University “Bob Keck Invitational” at the Shirk Center Fieldhouse (3 p.m./11 a.m.).