SUPERIOR, Wis.: Senior C.J. Pillath (Coleman, Wis./Coleman) won both the shot put and weight throw to lead the UW-Superior men's track and field team in the Twin Ports Open at Lydia Thering Fiedhouse Saturday.
 
The Yellowjackets hosted teams from St. Scholastica, Northland, Minnesota Duluth and Lakehead in the first of two annual home indoor meets. 
 
Pillath was the only UWS athlete to win an event Saturday, claiming the weight throw with a toss of 17.05 meters and the shot put with a mark of 15.09 meters. Fauston Wirtz (Esko, Minn./Esko) was second in the weight throw at 15.48 meters.
 
Jonny Kasper (Pierz, Minn./Healy) was the top Division III finisher in the 60-meter dash, clocking a 7.45 to finish fifth overall behind a group from UMD.
 
Jake Weston (Eveleth, Minn./Eveleth-Gilbert Senior) was second in the 400 meters in 53.28, sixth hundredths of a second ahead of the Bulldogs' Noah Torvik. Lennon Shimon (Albert Lea, Minn/Albert Lea Senior) was fourth overall in 54.41.
Andre Couture (Culver, Minn./Cloquet) was seventh in the event in 55.33. 
 
Cody Fernandez (Duluth, Minn./Proctor) and Brett Goplen (Hugo, Minn./St. Croix Lutheran Academy) ran third and fourth, respectively, in the 200-meter hurdles. Fernandez turned in a time of 27.14 while Goplen stopped the clock at 30.70. 
 
The 4x200-meter relay team of Matt Carlson (Duluth, Minn./Hermantown), Fernandez, Shimon and Weston was third overall in that event. They ran 1:36.49, to represent the fastest D-III time in the race. 
 
The 4x800 squad comprised of Derrick Moe (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet), Harrison Hirsch (Vadnais Heights, Minn./Mounds View), Henry Seeb (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater Area) and Connor Nelson (Rockford, Ill./Rockford) was third in 9:09.60, but again, was the top D-III team to run.
 
The distance-medley relay team made up of Seeb, Carlson Rand Bieri (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet) and Travis Gee (Minocqua, Wis./Lakeland Union) placed third in its race in 11:30.84 behind only two teams from UMD. 
 
In the high jump, Brady Emstrom (Medford, Wis./Gilman) (1.75 meters) and Kasper (1.65 meters) were third and fourth, respectively, there, while Dakota Rice (Upson, Wis./Hurley) was third in the pole vault with a leap of 3.65 meters. 
 
Kasper was also fourth overall in the long jump with a mark of 6.14, behind a trio from UMD.

The Yellowjackets are back in action next Friday and Saturday at the Warren Bowlus Invitational, hosted by UW-Stout.