FARGO, N.D. – The North Dakota State men's track & field team finished second by the slimmest of margins at the Summit League Indoor Championships on Saturday afternoon. South Dakota scored 17 points in the final event to conclude – the triple jump – to surpass the Bison and claim the team title.
 
The Coyotes finished with 165 points, edging the Bison at 163.5. The 1.5-point margin was the smallest by which the NDSU men have ever lost, or won, a Summit League indoor title.
 
The Bison won five event titles on Saturday.
 
NDSU junior Zach McGlynn was named the Championships Field MVP as the top-scoring men's athlete in the field events. McGlynn captured the high jump title in dramatic fashion, clearing a lifetime-best 7-00.25 (2.14m) twice in a tiebreaker jump-off. He is now tied for third-best in NDSU indoor history.
 
Sophomore Blake Nyenati broke his own school record in the 60m hurdles to win the Summit League title, clocking 7.75.
 
Cullen Curl won the 400m dash title in 48.41, Carter Elde placed third in 49.08, and Khamarly Holmes was seventh. The trio teamed up with Isaac Huntington to bring home the 4x400m relay crown in 3:16.72.
 
Kaden Pastian claimed his second event title of the meet, taking the shot put with a mark of 57-3 (17.45m). The Bison men finished 1-2-6 in the shot put, with Cam Landis second and freshman Jack Packer taking sixth.
 
Freshman Trey Heinrich was the Summit League runner-up in the 60m hurdles, clocking a personal-best 8.01. Brock Johnsen was fourth and Logan Mathieu was sixth for the Bison.
 
Bryce Enerson scored a personal-best 5,037 points for third in the heptathlon, then came back to take seventh in the 60m hurdles. Braden Brown tied for fourth in the high jump, clearing 6-08.75 (2.05m) to tie his personal-best.
 
Freshman Jayden Williams took fifth in the 60m dash in 6.80.
 
Hunter Klimek (14:34.29) finished seventh, and Jake Arason (14:35.92) took eighth in the 5,000m. Freshman Ethan Moe placed eighth in the mile in 4:12.20.