COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – Justin Kolpan won the gold medal in the javelin on Sunday to highlight the Franklin & Marshall men's track & field's closing day at the Centennial Conference Championships. The Diplomats finished the championship event in ninth place with 41 team points.

Kolpan's best throw of his 62.30 meters came on his third attempt and was enough to win the event while scoring 10 points for his team. Dustin Stoetzel was another scoring performance for Franklin & Marshall as he took sixth with his best throw being measured at 50.97 meters. Throws were an overall strength of the team throughout the weekend. That continued continued in the shot put as Austin Hadley had a season-best throw of 13.36 meters, earning fifth place and four points towards the team score. Laurence Miller's throw of 10.80 meter was good enough for 17th.

Zach Houff set a new PR in the 800 meter finals, as the first-year finished in seventh with a time of 1:56.35 to earn two points. Alex Olener earned a point with an eighth-place showing in the 110-meter hurdle finals, finishing in 17.48 seconds. He also finished 13th in the triple jump (11.80 meters). Tommy Tapino moved from tenth to ninth in program history in the 5,000 meters, running to a personal best time of 15:26.52 during Sunday's race. Owen McCann earned 21st place in that same event (15:41.30).

The Diplomats' 4x400 meter relay team of Justin Harrison, Wesley Iheuzo, Josh Brown, and Houff closed the meet with two final points. That relay placed seventh behind a season best time of 3:25.49. Earlier in the day, the 4x100 relay team of Gregory Bruno, Harrison, Olener, Ihezuo claimed ninth with a time of 44.34.

Franklin & Marshall is back in action with a trip to West Point Twilight on Thursday, May 8 ahead of next weekend's AARTFC Regional Championships. The Diplomats will be looking to add more national qualifying marks at those meets ahead of the Division III Championships near the end of the month.