DULUTH, Minn. – The University of Northwestern men's track and field team opened the 2019-20 Indoor Season at St. Scholastica on Saturday. With just a small roster of Eagles getting their first meet underway, Northwestern recorded four top-10 finishes. UNW competed against four other teams in Saturday action.
 
View the complete results from the St. Scholastica Opener HERE.
 
Junior Tanner Smith (Backus, Minn./Pine River-Backus) ran his first ever 60m dash in Saturday action, recording an 11th place finish in preliminaries. Smith came in at 7.37 seconds.
 
Brent Reller (Melrose, Minn./Melrose Area), coming off a solid cross country showing this fall, competed in the 800m run. Reller recorded a sixth place finish, coming in at 2:23.84.
 
 
The sophomore duo of Nathan Runck (Lamberton, Minn./Red Rock Central) and Tristan Thompson (Spicer, Minn./New London-Spicer) put together strong performances in the one mile run. Runck recorded a second-place finish (4:54.40), while Thompson followed up in third place (5:00.61).
 
Jacob Drury (Becker, Minn./Becker) and Qashr Middleton (Lakewood, Colo./Green Mountain) competed in field event action as Drury recorded a 1.6m high jump performance and Middleton added a 9.04m shot put final throw.
 
The Northwestern men's indoor track and field team will return to action on Feb. 1, 2020 when they compete at Bethel's Gene Glader Invite. Follow UNW track and field all season long at www.unweagles.com or on Twitter and Instagram at @unwcctf.