St. Norbert College finished in second place in the team standings at the Midwest Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championship hosted by Cornell College at Ash Park at Mount Vernon, Iowa.The Green Knights totaled 129 1/2 points to finish behind Monmouth College’s 193 points. Ripon College was third with 94 points.
Ryan Grandlic claimed the Green Knights’ lone individual conference championship on the second day, winning the 400-meter dash in a time of 47.99 seconds. Grandlic was third in the 200-meter dash in 21.76 seconds and was fifth in the javelin throw at 158 feet 11 inches.The 4×400-meter relay of Jon Gregory, Austin Livingston, Andrew Brath and Tyler Lewis won the conference championship with a time of 3:22.86. The quartet of Lewis, Colin O’Brien, Gregory and Grandlic placed second in the 4×100-meter relay with a time of 42.34 seconds.Brad Boockmeier finished second in the javelin throw with a distance of 174 feet. Boockmeier continued a workhorse afternoon with three fourth-place finishes in other events. Boockmeier finished the 110-meter hurdles in 15.71 seconds, leaped 20-4 1/4 in the long jump and had a heave of 49-3 3/4 in the shot put.
