INDIANAPOLIS – Chayton Bynes and Christopher Jennings each competed at the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships on Friday, finishing just outside the All-American places. 

Bynes finished 13^th in the long jump with a mark of 7.04 meters (23 feet, 1.25 inches) while Jennings placed 14^th in the weight throw with a mark of 18.56 meters (60-10.75). The two athletes needed to be in the top eight to earn first team All-America honors and in the top 12 to get a second team All-American nod.

Chadron State is not done at nationals yet, with Bynes returning to compete Saturday morning in the triple jump, where he will enter as the top overall seed based on his season-best leap of 15.71 meters (51-6.5). 

In the long jump on Friday, Bynes scratched on his first jump, but improve to leap 6.85 meters (22-5.75) on his second jump and tallied his scoring jump of 7.04 (23-1.25) on his final run of the day. The mark of 7.04 is Bynes's fourth-farthest jump of the season. 

Wesley Tyndall of Lincoln (Mo.) won the long jump event with a leap of 7.58 meters (24-10.5), ahead of Harding's Anton Kopytko and UIndy's Alex Meyer. RMAC champion Richard Safoh of UCCS finished seventh.

In the weight throw, Jennings placed 14^th, outperforming his No. 18 seed entering the tournament. Like Bynes, Jennings improved on every throw after a first-round scratch, recording 17.52 meters (57-5.75) in round two and his scoring mark of 18.56 meters (60-10.75) in round three. 

Competing in the first of two flights of the day, Jennings was in sixth place after flight one, then saw eight of nine competitors in flight two pass him in the standings to bump him down to 14^th. Jennings's throw was his third-farthest of the season. 

Hillsdale's Ben Haas earned the national championship with a mammoth throw of 22.89 meters (75-1.25). Haas won the event by nearly three feet, with Lewis's Levi Graham in second at 22.01 meters (72-2.5). 

Bynes is scheduled to compete in the triple jump at 10 a.m. MT (12 p.m. local time) on Saturday morning. A total of 18 competitors, split into two flights of nine, will jump three times, with the top nine qualifiers combining to form the finals and jumping three more times for a total of six attempts. The meet will be available to stream on NCAA.com.