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Red-shirt senior Zye Boey swept both of his individual events, winning the men’s 60-meter and 200-meter dash.
Boey won the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.75 seconds, edging out senior Kind Butler of the host Indiana Hoosier’s. Butler finished in second place with a time of 6.79 seconds. Butler, like Boey, was an All-American last season. Boey and Butler competed against each other in last season’s NCAA Indoor Championship in College Station, Texas. In that race, Boey again edged out Butler, with Boey finishing in 7th place in front of Butler.
The two met again in the same event this year, with Boey again finishing in front of Butler. Boey won the 200-meter dash with a time of 21.07 seconds. The time set the Indiana Gladstein Fieldhouse record, which previously stood at 21.17 seconds, set by John Story of Indiana State in 1989.
Butler, who again finished in second place behind Boey, recorded a time of 21.47 seconds.
Though Boey set a Gladstein Fieldhouse record, two other Panthers broke Eastern records.
Junior distance runner Erika Ramos set the Eastern mile run record with a time of 4:53.67. The time beats the previous Eastern record of 4:54.4 by Margaret Smith in 1984. Ramos, who set the school 6K record during cross country season, came close to breaking the mile run record earlier in the season. At the team’s first meet of the season, the Early Bird, Ramos was just half a second off from breaking the record.
Also breaking an Eastern record was red-shirt junior runner Sean Wiggan 600-meter run with a time of 1:19.70. Wiggan, who finished first place in the event as well, broke Kert McAfee’s 1997 record of 1:19.97. Wiggan, who red-shirted last season, was a first team All-OVC at the Indoor OVC Championships in 2010.
The Panthers’ next meet will be February 2 and 3 in South Bend, Ind., for the Notre Dame Meyo Invite.