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FRANKLIN, IN – The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology men’s track and field team held off Defiance at the 2012 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships held at Franklin College on April 27-28.  The Engineers scored 208 points in the 20 events to hold off Defiance’s 129 point effort to claim the school’s fifth straight HCAC men’s outdoor track title. 

The Rose-Hulman men had six event winners. Senior Sutton Coleman (Lebanon, Va./H.S.) claimed titles in three different events at the meet.  The senior won both the 110 and 400-meter hurdles and was also a member of the first place 4x400-meter relay team.  Junior Collin Crowson (Dublin, Ohio/Jerome) set a new HCAC meet record in the pole vault, clearing 4.88 meters to capture the title. 

Defiance placed second in the men’s team standings with 129 points. Manchester College tallied 127 points and was followed by Franklin College (125 points), Anderson University (82), Earlham College (41), College of Mount St. Joseph (38), Transylvania University (11), Bluffton University (11), and Hanover College (7).

One other conference records was broken at the 2012 championships.  Defiance’s Tom Postema (Defiance, Ohio/Tinora) set a new league-best in the men’s discus with a heave of 54.96 meters. 

Men’s Event Winners                                                                            

***New HCAC meet record