Singleton posts NACC’s first track and field event win

The inaugural season for the Northeast Alabama Community College men's track and field program ended with a season-best performance and some program history.

NACC athletes recorded 11 Top-10 finishes, including four Top-5s, while freshman Henry Singleton became the first Mustang to win a track and field event during Saturday's Keith Wright Memorial Meet at Life University in Marietta, Georgia.

Singleton won the 5,000-meter race with a winning time of 17:27.02.

NACC's Ephan Benjume finished second in the race (18:14.34), part of a strong all-around meet performance for the sophomore. Benjume also posted seventh-place finishes in both the 800-meter run (2:05.21) and the 1500-meter run (4:23.20) and teamed with sophomore Braxton Williams and freshmen Jose Rodriguez and Ethan Turner for a second-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay (3:51.61).

Williams recorded a third-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles (1:05.84) for the Mustangs while also placing seventh in the long jump with a mark of 5.55 meters (18 feet, 2.5 inches) and ninth in the discus with a mark of 19.59 meters (64-3).

Freshman Sam Adams used a mark of 7.70 meters (25-3.25) to collect a seventh-place finish in the shot put. 

Meanwhile, NACC runners turned in six of the Top-13 finishes in the 1500-meter run. Singleton followed Benjume's seventh-place finish by placing ninth (4:27.01) while Rodriguez was 10th (4:31.94), Turner 11th (4:42.06), freshman Omar Teletor 12th (4:50.34) and Adams 13th (4:54.62). 

Teletor (2:17.62) and Adams (2:32.32) also finished 11th and 12th respectively in the 800-meter run.