BEREA, Ohio – The Baldwin Wallace University men's indoor track and field team won a team title at the 2015 season-opening and Annual Mid-January Meet on the Harrison Dillard Track inside the Lou Higgins Center Fieldhouse. This was the first of four home indoor meets this winter.

 

The BW men were first of five teams and scored 196 points. 

 

The Yellow Jacket men were led by senior Division III All-American heptathlete/ decathlete Brandon Eddy (Cuyahoga Heights) who won a pair of events and junior All-American sprinter Ben Beidleman (Washington D.C./ St. Anselm's Abbey) who won two individual events and ran on a winning relay team. Eddy won the high jump with a leap of six feet and three and one half inches (6'3.5"), placed first in the pole vault with a vault of 14'5.25" and placed third in the 55-meter hurdles in a time of 7.92 seconds. Beidleman won the 55-meter dash in 6.64 seconds, won the 200-meter dash with a  Dillard Track record of 22.64 seconds and ran on the winning 4x200-meter relay team in 1:31.49. He was joined on the winning 4x100 relay squad by junior Isaac Baker (Lithia, Fla./ Newsome), sophomore Troy Robinson (Akron/Garfield) and freshman Theodore Washington (Orlando, Fla/ FirstAcademy).

In addition in the field events, junior Tyler Burdorff (Painesville/ Riverside) placed first in the shot put with a throw of 49'1.50", freshman Ian Ramos (Norwalk) placed third in the weight throw with a throw of 42'7.50" and junior Sammy Ibrahim (North Olmsted) was third in the long jump at 19'10.25".

 

In running events, sophomore Brian Brennan (Akron/ Walsh Jesuit) won the 5000-meter run in 16:30.26, Baker placed first in the 500-meter run in 1:07.22 and freshman Evan Milovich (Westlake) placed first in the 3000-meter run in 9:35.42. Also, Robinson placed second in the 200 meters in 22.93 and the 4x400-meter relay team consisting of Baker, sophomore Justin Swords (Brunswick), senior Ryan Weir (Lodi/Cloverleaf) and Ben Beidleman finished second in 3:31.96. Swords also placed third in the 800-meter run in 2:05.20.

The Yellow Jackets are back in action on Friday, January 30 when they host the annual Ohio Athletic Conference North Split Squad Meet on the Dillard Track. Field events begin at 4 p.m.