Chapel Hill, N.C. - Appalachian State University men's track and field sent a pair of student-athletes to North Carolina's Tobacco Road Multis on Thursday and Friday to compete in the heptathlon. Jackson Powers placed seventh and Benjamin Brunson was right behind him in eighth.
The junior, Powers, registered a score of 2,270 while Brunson finished his first collegiate heptathlon with 2,079 points. Neither of them competed in the final three events, which included the 60-meter hurdles, pole vault and 1,000. The field was made up of 11 participants, three of which did not finish.