The men's track went into the 2003 Mid-American Conference outdoor championship and left with its highest finish in over a decade.
Ball State took a fifth place finish, its highest since taking second in 1990. It was led by a near dominant field event squad, which won 53 of a possible 67 points.
The field events yielded the team's only first-place finish in Paul Panning. He won the MAC pole vaulting title by a judge's decision over John Russell of Akron. Panning had a height of 17-2 1/2, about three inches off the MAC outdoor championship record.
Panning's win marked the second consecutive Cardinal to be the MAC pole vault champion. B.J. McKay won last year.
Three Cardinals finished in the top six in the javelin event, including Tom Green and Matt Conly who took second and third place, respectively. Deighton Jarrett and Victor Johnson took fifth place and sixth place, respectively, in the triple jump while Jason Howard took third in the event as well as placing seventh in the long jump.
Scott Allen and Patrick Bush placed in the top eight of the 400-meter dash. Both participated on the 4x400-meter relay team, which took seventh place. Allen was also a part of the seventh-place 4x100-meter relay team.
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