Complete Results

WOOSTER, Ohio -- In the first indoor meet of 2025, the Allegheny College men's track and field team placed fourth overall at the Wooster Invitational, hosted by the College of Wooster at the Scot Center on Saturday.

In the team standings, the Gators finished with 65 total points. They trailed third-place Kenyon College by only 10 points. Atop the leaderboard, first-place Wittenberg University and Ohio Wesleyan University ran away from the competition with 162.5 and 143.5 points, respectively.

Senior standout Aaron Moon (Springfield, Va./Lake Braddock) earned Allegheny's only individual victory in the long jump. He cleared 6.74 meters on his sixth and final attempt, although his other countable mark of 6.68 meters on his third jump would have also produced a first-place finish. Moon recorded an All-Atlantic Region Track and Field (AARTFC) qualifier in the long jump and was the top Gator in the 60-meter dash at 7.21 seconds.

Second-year sprinter Austin Stewart (Pittsburgh, Pa./Serra Catholic) had a busy day on the track. Stewart placed second in the 400-meter dash (52.34 seconds) and fifth in the 200-meter dash (23.40 seconds). He also ran the third leg of Allegheny's 4x400-meter relay team alongside Cole Jooste (Upper Saint Clair, Pa./Upper Saint Clair), Zack Wyse (Pittsburgh, Pa./Baldwin), and Jordan Anderson (Attica, N.Y./Attica), helping the quartet place fourth out of 10 with a time of 3:40.47 seconds.

Jooste added another top-five performance in the 800-meter race. He placed third overall and third in his heat with a time of 2:05.21 seconds, edging his teammate, Wyse, by a mere two-hundredths of a second to pick up the bronze finish.

Freshmen Cherrieke Bufis (Rochester, N.Y./Vertus Charter) and Andre Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C./East Chapel Hill), teammates on Allegheny's football program, made their track and field debuts at Wooster. Bufis was the runner-up in the triple jump at 12.23 meters. Anderson paced the Gators in the shot put (11.87 meters) and was ninth overall in the weight throw (11.34 meters).

Allegheny Top Finishes
60-meter dash
6. Aaron Moon - 7.21 seconds
15. Carter Betz - 7.32 seconds
17. Otis Thomas - 7.34 seconds

200-meter dash
5. Austin Stewart - 23.40 seconds
15. VJ Praylor - 24.64 seconds
16. Otis Thomas - 24.65 seconds

400-meter dash
2. Austin Stewart - 52.34 seconds
12. Eliel Cortez - 57.82 seconds

800-meter run
3. Cole Jooste - 2:05.21
4. Zack Wyse - 2:05.23

3,000-meter run
7. Desmond Corrado - 9:38.40
10. Caleb Freeman - 9:43.30

4x400 relay
4. Cole Jooste, Zack Wyse, Austin Stewart & Jordan Anderson - 3:40.47

High Jump
7. Evan Kurpakus - 1.72 meters

Long Jump
1. Aaron Moon - 6.74 meters
5. Carter Betz - 6.27 meters

Triple Jump
2. Cherrieke Bufis - 12.23 meters

Shot Put
6. Andre Anderson - 11.87 meters
8. Matt Reynolds - 11.71 meters
10. Cameron Sadler - 10.93 meters

Weight Throw
5. Cameron Sadler - 13.00 meters
9. Andre Anderson - 11.34 meters

Up Next
The Allegheny men's track and field team will compete in Houghton University's Highlander Invitational on Saturday, January 25, in Houghton, New York.