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Scots' make jump in Week 2
competition
Release Date: January 25, 2010
MONMOUTH, Ill. —
No team scores were kept at Saturday’s five-team Midwest
Invitational track meet hosted by Monmouth College, but that didn’t
matter to the Fighting Scots who had four athletes turn in
provisional qualifying performances.
The Fighting Scots won 15 of the meet’s 42 events and were
especially good in the men’s high jump where they took the top five
spots – including two provisional marks. Junior transfer Nick
Byom nearly punched his free pass to the NCAA Indoor
Championships and classmate Tyler Hannam wasn’t far behind.
Byom cleared 6’9-3/4, easily making the provisional height – just
one inch shy of the automatic mark to take first. Hannam’s
personal-best mark and second place effort of 6’8-1/4 was also a
provisional mark. Sean Wells took third at 6’6, Matt
Hassler and Ryan Elmore each cleared 6’2. Hassler was
awarded fourth and Elmore fifth.
The women’s shot put nearly equaled the men’s high jump
performance, taking four of the top five places. Senior Gloria
Lehr’s winning mark of 43’9-3/4 was also a provisional
mark. Maureen Dewan placed third at 36’5-1/2 to lead
Monmouth’s 3-4-5 contingent. Allison Devor put the shot 36’4
to place fourth and Kayla Corzine was fifth at 36’0. Lehr and
Dewan were 1-2 in the weight throw. Lehr threw the weight 49’8-1/4
and Dewan’s mark was 44’6-3/4.
Logan Hohl recorded the Scots’ final provisional
performance. The junior’s 55-meter hurdle time of 7.72 won the event
and provisionally qualified him for the national meet.
In the other sprint races Jae Moore outran the field in
the 200 dash winning in 26.91. Moore had a good day, narrowly
missing a provisional time in the 55 prelims where she clocked a
7.34 and she ran on the winning 4x200 relay. Monmouth’s women
finished 1-2 in the 400 dash. Morgan Leffel’s time of 1:02.52
clipped teammate Kaci Lierman at the finish by three-tenths.
Leffel also took second in the long jump at 16’4-1/2,
one-and-a-quarter inches ahead of Mackinsey Marquith in
third. Marquith won the triple jump with a distance of 33’11-1/4 and
Leffel was third at 33’7-1/2. Nick Wright placed third in the
men’s triple jump with a personal-best of 44’4.
Saidu Sesay and Mike Blodgett
scored in the 55 dash. Sesay broke the tape in 6.64 and Blodgett was
fourth in 6.77. Blodgett also had a personal-best performance in the
long jump, winning the event with a mark of 22’5-1/4. Sesay also
took third in the 200 with a time of 23.45.
Shane Reschke turned in a career-best in
the 300. The sophomore’s time of 37:45 was good for third place.
In the distance events, Mary Kate Beyer
and Bri Flynn began the meet for the Scots with points in the
5,000. Beyer placed first in 18:46.36, more than a minute ahead of
the runnerup. Flynn placed fourth in 20:40.30. Senior Katie Staab
placed first in the 3,000 with a time of 11:32.38. Freshman
Connor Shields took second in the men’s 3,000 with a 9:36.36.
Rachel Bowden – in her first 800 race – placed second, clocking
a 2:25.43, just six seconds back of the winner. Jake Barr
finished fourth in the men’s 800 with a time of 2:06.79, seven
seconds out of first.
The Scots’ successes included more field
events. Peyton Lumzy took first in the shot put with a
winning throw of 48’6. Sam Cokinos placed third at 46’10-1/4.
Lumzy was third in the weight throw at 51’9-3/4.
Chelsey Widdop led the Scots in the
women’s high jump. Widdop, Heather Hull and Sarah Stinson
each cleared 4’10-1/4 to place 3-4-5. Whitney Didier,
competing in the pole vault for the first time this season, won the
event by vaulting 10’6-1/4.
The Scots were also impressive in the relays.
In the 4x200, Moore, Lierman, Leffel and Widdop took the top spot
for the women with a 1:50.96 and Sesay, Blodgett, Reschke and
Kyle Prout won the men’s in 1:32.44.
Brittney Frazier, Lexi Frakes,
Aron Jackson and Staab ran a Monmouth honor roll time to win the
women’s distance medley in 12:34.72. The men’s team of Shields,
Barr, Luke Devlin and Logan Weir ran an 11:29.53 to
place third.
In the final event of the day, the 4x400 relay,
Monmouth’s men’s took second. Reschke, Hohl, Weir and Patrick
Mundschenk clocked a 3:29.63 to finish just three seconds out of
first. Lierman, Bowden, Widdop and Leffel took third in the women’s
competition with a 4:11.67.
The Scots travel to Terre Haute, Ind., Saturday
for the Rose-Hulman Engineer Invitational.
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