Eleven Top-10 finishes at Millersville

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA  – The Lincoln University track and field teams competed at the 39th annual Millersville Metrics.

The men's side featured nine top-10 finishes, while the women recorded a pair of top-10 finishes.

Freshman Kamani Johns (Chester, Pa./Chester) had a hand in both of the top 10 marks with a fifth-place finish in the 800 (2:21.68), and then teamed with freshman Destiny Pierre-Mathieu, sophomore Kaz'minah Turner (Northfield, N.J./Pleasantville), and sophomore Nakacee McNab (Freeport, N.Y./Freeport) for second place in the 4x400 relay (4:10.97).

Junior Dominic George (Wyncote, Pa./Cheltenham) was in on three of Lincoln's top-10 men's marks. He placed second in the 100-meter dash (11.04), ninth in the 200-meter dash (22.89), and then team with freshman Jude Butumbi (Philadelphia, Pa./Northeast), junior Nyle Buchanan (King George, Va./King George), and senior Glenn Butler, Jr. (Greenburgh, N.Y./White Plains) for a third-place finish in the 4x100 relay (42.84).

The 4x400 relay team of freshman Jordan Hall (Randallstown, Md./Newtown), sophomore Spencer Seide (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Mount Vernon), freshman Jameel Hoyes (Atlanta, Ga./Veterans) and freshman Jude Butumbi (Philadelphia, Pa./Northeast) crossed the finish line in second place in a time of 3:24.36.

Seide and Hoyes finished fourth and sixth, respectively in the 400-meter run. Seide crossed the tape in 51.10 followed by Hoyes in 51.19. Buchanan brought home an eighth-place finish in the 100 (11.60), while Butumbi was fourth in the long jump (6.43 meters) and freshman Jeremy Gyan (Bear, Del./Newark Charter) was ninth in the pole vault (3.45 meters).

Lincoln returns to action 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Delaware State Invitational.

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