PHILADELPHIA - The Saint Joseph's men's track and field teams competed at the UPenn Big 5 meet and Princeton's Sam Howell Invitational on Saturday.
 
SAM HOWELL:

• Senior Michael Welde continued with his dazzling performances this week in the 400m. Welde won the event in a blistering 47.61. The time ranks him first in the Atlantic 10, more than satisfies the IC4A standard, and currently ranks him eight on the program's top ten performer list.
• In his hurdle season opener, senior Kyle Magee took the lead from the first hurdle and did not look back. Magee won the event clocking a time of 53.57, just shy of his PR. This time currently ranks him fourth in the Atlantic 10.
• The men's 4x400m relay saw strong performances from both relays entered. The 'A' relay of sophomore Eric Ford, freshman Michael Brittingham, Magee, and Welde claimed gold with a time 3:14.84. The 'B' relay of sophomore Ladi Bamgbose, senior Kris Edobi, graduate student Stephen McClellan, and senior Michael Szwed placed second in a time of 3:17.03.
• Sophomore Patrick Fehm place second in the high jump with a best mark of 2.01m.
• In a scintillating race, graduate student Bobby Hastie dropped 16 seconds off his previous 5,000m PR to clock at a time of 14:06.72. This was good enough for seventh overall. This time also satisfies the IC4A standard in this event.

BIG 5:

• In the long jump, rookie Josh Bacon set a collegiate best with a leap of 6.22m.
• In the 800m, rookie Josh Thaler led the Hawks in this event, clocking a collegiate best time of 1:58.80.
• Sophomore Vincent Twomey ran a time of 4:09.43 for eighth place to lead a SJU sweep of eighth through fourteenth place. That sweep included rookie Aidan Doherty (9^th, 4:09.43), senior Matt D'Auria (10^th, 4:13.57), junior Ryne Beni (11^th, 4:13.80), rookie Dawson Baptiste (12^th, 4:14.18), rookie Carter Geer (13^th, 4:15.98) and rookie Benjamin Klinger (14^th 4:28.84).

UP NEXT:
St. Joe's will again be represented at two meets next weekend. On Friday, April 9 the distance crew will head to Temple to compete at the Temple Invitational. The rest of the team will head down to Fairfax, Va. on Saturday, April 10 to compete in the GMU Spring Invite.