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The Capital University track and field teams continued outdoor competition Friday with the Cardinal Twilight and the GVSU Second to Last Chance meets.

 

For the men, seniors Benjamin Herbert (Bainbridge Township, Ohio) and Bret Nehrenz (Seville, Ohio) took part in the Cardinal Twilight, while the women were represented by seniors Casey Simmons (Beavercreek, Ohio) and Emma McCarron (Mansfield, Ohio) at the meet, which took place at the University of Louisville.

 

Senior Emily Sheets (Gahanna, Ohio) was the lone Crusader to compete at the Grand Valley (Mich.) State University Second to Last Chance meet.

 

McCarron, who currently owns the nation's No. 15 time in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, was just five seconds off her school-record pace in the event, placing third with a time of 11:06.18.

 

Simmons ran a school-record time of 15.56 in the preliminaries of the 100-meter hurdles and placed 12th in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 1:06.94.

 

Herbert finished 20th in the 800-meter run with a mark of 1:58.82, while Nehrenz posted a time of 9:43.15 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, good for seventh place.

 

In Michigan, Sheets registered a toss of 120-11 in the discus, good for a ninth-place finish. Her top mark of 137-11 is currently the 25th-best time in NCAA Division III.