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PITTSBURG – The Hutchinson Community College men's track and field team made program history on Sunday by winning its first-ever Region 6 Indoor Championship team title.
Scoring in eight events on the final day of competition at Pittsburg State's Robert Plaster Center, the Blue Dragons won the men's team championship with 109 team points. Coffeyville was second with 93 points and Butler was third with 89 points.
The closest the Blue Dragons came to a Region 6 Indoor team title was a runner-up finish in 1986. The Dragons have had five third-place finishes in the indoor regional championships.
The Blue Dragons also captured their first Jayhawk West indoor team championship in program history with 158 points. Garden City was runner-up in the conference standings with 112 points and Barton was third with 118 points.
Over the weekend, the Blue Dragons earned four individual regional event championships and scored in 13 of 20 events. The Blue Dragons had multiple scorers in five events over the two-day meet – 5,000 meters, pole vault, long jump, 600 meters and 3,000 meters.
On Sunday, sophomore Leo LeGrand joined Elisha Williams, Jayce Spencer and Farrin Mangelson as individual regional champions with a Region 6 title in the 1,000 meters. His time of 2:31.80 earned his second national qualification this season. LeGrand won the Jayhawk West championship and was regional runner-up in the 800 meters earlier on Sunday with a time of 1:55.66.
The Blue Dragons scored a combined 14 points in the 3,000 meters on Sunday as sophomore Titus Kiprotich was Region 6 runner-up with a national qualifying time of 8:22.46. That time was the second-fastest time in Blue Dragon indoor history. Mangelson placed fourth in the 3,000 with a time of 8:25.01. Cornelius Kogo was eighth in 8:33.08.
The Dragons scored 12 points in the 600-meter run on Sunday. Williams scored in his second individual events with a Region 6 runner-up finish in a time of 1:19.46, which also won the Jayhawk West individual title in the event. Da'Shawn Lester was fifth in 1:19.23. Both times were national qualifying marks.
Williams ran the third leg of Hutchinson's fifth-place 4x400 relay team. Rickyle Telemaque, Lester, Williams and D'Antonio Warren combined for a time of 3:16.84.
Freshman Malique Parkinson also earned a trip to nationals in the triple jump on Sunday. His best jump of 47-7 3/4 (14.41 meters) placed third in the region.
Sophomore Grady Bare placed sixth in the shot put at 47-1 (14.35 meters). Warren placed seventh in the 200-meter finals in a time of 21.80.
The Blue Dragons have qualified 18 individuals and one relay for the 2025 NJCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 8-9 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.