Petty, a senior from Mechanicsville, Va., opened up his season with a trio of strong performances at the Bast-Cregger Invitational hosted by Roanoke College. Petty showed his class in his specialty, the 60-meter hurdles, as he won his preliminary heat with a time of 8.37-seconds, the ninth-fastest in NCAA Division III and tops in the ODAC. He later won the event at 8.44-seconds. Petty was arguably quicker in the 60-meter dash as he burned to 6.98-seconds to finish second in the finals. His prelim time of 6.92-seconds is #2 in the ODAC and #3 in the country. Petty also helped Randolph to third in the 4x200-meter relay with a time of 1:36.76.
DAVONTA WOMACK | Sr. | Bridgewater College
- #2 in the country in the 60m dash, tops in the ODAC
Event | Bast-Cregger Invitational
- 60m | 1st | 6.90
JUSTICE ALLEN | So. | Eastern Mennonite University
- two top-5 showings to start the season
Event | Bast-Cregger Invitational
- Mile | 3rd | 4:44.74
- 300m | 5th | 9:29.35
ASA BELL | So. | Guilford College
- Guilford was lone D3 team to compete in the meet (Pfeiffer reclassying to D3)
Event | JDL Early Bird Duals
- 60m | 27th | 7.34
- 200m | 31st | 25.41
- 400m | 35th | 58.76
ALEX SHADKHOO | Fr. | University of Lynchburg
- 8th fastest 200m run in school history
Event | Bast-Cregger Invitational
- 200m | 1st | 22.72
- 300m | 1st | 36.39
DOUG DRACON | Fr. | Washington and Lee University
- two top-4 showings in first meet; ranked inside top-29 in D3 in both events
Event | Bast-Cregger Invitational
- 60m | 4th | 7.12 (7.04 in prelims to rank 17th in D3)
- 200m | 4th | 23.06 (converts to 22.66 for 29th national ranking)
Note: The 2019 NCAA Division III Indoor Track Championships will be competed on a 200-meter fixed bank track at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, Mass. Any distance over 60-meters run a flat track will be converted for national rankings. The ODAC top-times listing, as well as weekly report, will show on-track results for the venue in which the meet was competed. Any converted times used will be noted.