GREENSBORO, N.C. – Freshman Camren Wynder-Hill won the decathlon Saturday to help the Norfolk State men's track and field team to a runner-up finish at the 2021 MEAC Outdoor Championships at North Carolina A&T.

The Spartan men, who scored in every event but one Saturday, amassed 174 points. North Carolina A&T won with 288.

Wynder-Hill was one of three Spartans to score in multiple events Saturday. In the decathlon, he held on to edge teammate Joshua Sutton. Wynder-Hill tallied 4,579 points and Sutton, who won the final event, the 1,500 meters, finished with 4,476. Sadiq Nurse was third (4,144) and Biagio Perrello (4,114) took fourth.

Wynder-Hill also placed eighth in the 110-meter hurdles in 14.77 seconds.

Trequan Barnes was another Spartan to place in two individual events Saturday. He clocked a season-best 400m time of 46.33 seconds to place third, then a short time later, he PRed in the 200 meters with a 20.92 clocking, good for sixth place.

Also in the 200, Kai Cole posted a PR of 20.96 for seventh place. He also took third in the 100 in 10.46 seconds, just ahead of teammate Anthony Franklin, who was fourth in 10.55.

Cole, Franklin, Savien Hayes and Keith Brown found the medal stand with a second-place finish in the 4x100 relay. The quartet ran a season-best time of 40.14 seconds, just behind North Carolina A&T.

In the middle-distance events, Je'Shawn Walker and Kamil Jihad both posted personal records. Walker PRed in the 1,500 with a time of 4:01.09, good for a bronze medal finish. Walker was fourth in the 800m in 1:53.19.

Meshack Kipchirchir paced the distance runners with a third-place finish in the 5,000 meters (15:44.31). Isa Suleiman was fourth in the same event (15:52.87) and Lelei Too placed seventh.

The 4x400 relay capped the day on the track with a fourth-place showing. The team of Barnes, Jihad, Hayes and Brown crossed the line in 3:14.79.

NSU also got a silver-medal performance from Isaac Haywood in the triple jump. His best leap was 48 feet, 3.25 inches, just one quarter inch behind the winner, Kobe-Jordan Rhooms of Morgan State. Spartan Rodric Cox-Cooper won the bronze in the triple jump with a best jump of 46-7.5, and Nile Walker was eighth in 43-9.25.

"The freshmen really stepped up big on the men's side," NSU Director of Track & Field Kenneth Giles said. "Camren really led the way … he was a stud this weekend. Rodric also came up with key points for us, scoring in both the long and triple jump."

Sophomore Azad Williams led the Spartan throwers with a fourth-place finish in the shot put (48-8.75). Rayquan Smith took eighth in the discus (124-3).

"This season has been like no other in my career," Giles said. "With our athletes coming out of quarantine and the lack of quality training because of the pandemic made it hard for us. But I am very pleased with their performance."

The Spartans will wait to see how many of their athletes qualify for the NCAA East Preliminary round, which takes place later this month in Jacksonville, Florida.