Results

EDINBORO, Pa. (Feb. 27) – Senior Jalen Cloud (Leechburg, Pa./Kiski) and freshman Logan Pfister (Fishertown, Pa./Chestnut Ridge) both set indoor school records, reached NCAA provisional marks and claimed individual titles on Sunday during the final day of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships.

Cloud won the league crown in the triple jump while setting a school record for the second-straight day. He posted a mark of 14.83 meters (48-8.00 feet) on his fifth attempt on Sunday, which eclipses his previous school record of 14.47 meters (47-5.75 feet) set at the 2020 league champions. Cloud earned All-PSAC laurels in the triple jump for the second time in his career after breaking the school record in the long jump yesterday.

Pfister claimed the conference title in the high jump while making his college debut at the league meet. He cleared a mark of 2.05 meters (6-8.75 feet) on his first attempt at the height to become the program's first league champion in the high jump since Marcus Given at the 2012 outdoor championships. Pfister tied the indoor school record previously set by Aaron Morgan during the 2017 campaign.

The California University of Pennsylvania men's track & field team finished sixth in the team standings with 46 points after scoring in eight events. Shippensburg cruised to its 11th-consecutive league title after totaling 210 points behind a combined eight event championships. Slippery Rock placed second in the standings with 90 points, while East Stroudsburg ranked third with 76 points.

The 4x400-meter relay of sophomore Noah Bernarding (Cochranton, Pa./Cochranton), senior Avery Boea-Gisler (Pittsburgh, Pa./Serra Catholic), Cloud and junior Kristopher Lytle (Columbia, Md./Atholton) earned All-PSAC status on Sunday. The Vulcans placed third overall with a time of 3 minutes, 24.79 seconds, marking the program's first All-PSAC relay since the 2019 indoor campaign.

Individually, Lytle scored in both the 60-meter and 200-meter dash at the league championships. He placed fourth in the finals of the 60 meters with a time of 7.06 seconds after setting a season-best time during yesterday's preliminaries. Lytle also finished sixth in the 200 meters on Sunday after establishing a season-best mark of 22.44 seconds.

Bernarding improved his qualifying time in the 800-meter run by over six-tenths of a second by posting a time of 1:55.43 to finish in fourth place. Boea-Gisler scored in the 400-meter run after crossing the finish line in 50.88 seconds to place eighth overall.

Additionally, junior Michael Berdar (Centerville, Pa./Beth-Center) set a season-best height in the high jump on Sunday by clearing 1.92 meters (6-3.50 feet).