The Middlebury men's track and field team accumulated 140.5 points and finished in third place while hosting the Middlebury Winter Classic on Saturday. The University of Vermont won the meet with 171 points, edging runner-up Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) with 156 points. 
 
HIGHLIGHTS

• Caleb Smith won the heptathlon by amassing 4,262 points during his initial collegiate attempt in the event, edging teammate Quinn Kennedy by 22 points. Smith won the 60-meter (7.24) and tied for the top spot in the high jump, clearing the bar at 1.82 meters. Kennedy claimed the shot put with a personal-best distance of 12.12m, won the 60m hurdles (8.94) and posted a second-place effort in the long jump (6.09m).
• Sam Opawuyi was victorious during the triple jump for the second week in a row, hitting the sand with a winning distance of 12.73m. Teammate Tony Wang was third in the event at 11.94m.
• Runner-up efforts were tallied by Aiden Tam in the 60m hurdles and Marco Motroni in the 60m. Tam broke the tape with a personal-best time of 8.51, just one-hundredth of a second behind the winner. Motroni crossed the finish line with a time of 7.04.
• Richard Clark raced to third in the 200m in 22.98, while Felix Rogovin also tallied a third-place showing in the 5,000m with a collegiate-best clocking of 15:50.65.
• The final event of the meet saw the Middlebury 4x400m relay of Lachlan Bishop, Raymond Pavlik, Charles Kessler and Matthias Galban tally a runner-up clocking of 3:33.09.
• The Panthers posted numerous top-five efforts in the field events. Henry Ericson tied for the top spot in the pole vault at a personal-best height of 4.40m but finished third as he needed the greatest number of attempts to clear the bar.
• Dave Filias finished second in the weight throw with a distance of 16.14m. Samuel Maxwell finished third in the event (15.05m), while Dan Urchuk (14.49m) and James Hetherington (14.33m) were fourth and fifth, respectively.
• Later in the day, Urchuk placed third in the shot put (13.51m), edging Filias by 0.01m.

NOTES

• Filias' efforts in the shot put and weight throw were each personal-best tosses.
• Urchuk and Hetherington both eclipsed their best collegiate heaves in the weight throw.
• Tucker Jakobe posted a personal-best time of 9:22.89 in the 3,000m.

The Panthers travel to The Track at New Balance in Boston next Sunday to host Middlebury's New England Small College Invite.