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Monmouth men show ‘eye of the
tiger’ at DePauw meet
Release Date: February 7, 2006
MONMOUTH, Ill. — When the Monmouth
College men dominated the Midwest Conference Championships last
spring, a rival competitor noted that the Fighting Scots were so
strong, they should move up from Division III.
The Scots got a taste of some DII and NAIA competition at Saturday’s
Tiger Indoor Invitational in Greencastle, Ind., but the result was
exactly the same – another meet victory.
Monmouth scored 136 points to top runner-up University of
Indianapolis by 17.5 points. Lindsey Wilson College, Rend Lake
College and Vincennes University rounded out the top five.
“It’s not what we set out to do at all,” said MC coach Roger Haynes.
“For example, we basically ran all of our distance guys in the mile
and the 3000, rather than spreading them out in several events. But
it’s always good to win.”
Tyler Rundle led the way by winning the 200-meter dash in 22.58 and
placing second in the 400-meter dash (50.79). He was also on the
4x400 relay that placed third in 3:29.29. He was joined by Adam
Rodriguez, Dante Daniels and Kel Bond. The 4x200 group of Bradley
Franks, Tim Meredith, Aaron Daverin and Daniels placed second in
1:32.47.
Bond and Anthony Welty also posted individual victories, with Bond
winning the 800-meter run in 1:56.02 and Welty taking the 5000-meter
run in a personal-best time of 15:17.46. Jeff Rebholz won the shot
put (49’1-1/2).
“Anthony was extremely good in the 5000,” said Haynes. “He ran a
real nice race, exchanging the lead a few times with another runner
before taking the lead on the final lap. That was his best time
indoors or outdoors.”
He added, “Kel was pretty dominant in the 800, and he was pretty
close to running a national time. Adam Rodriguez was good in that
event, too (1:59.31).”
Pole vaulter Jonny Henkins was the story of last week’s meet for the
Scots, but he ran into some tough competition at the meet, which was
hosted by DePauw University. Actually, it was a very familiar face,
as Henkins’ teammate, Peter Sprecher, won the event on fewer misses
after both Scots cleared 15’3. It was Sprecher’s personal-best and
qualified him provisionally for the national meet.
“Peter had two very good jumps at 15’9 and probably should have made
that height,” said Haynes. “They’re both very different kids and
very different vaulters, but they’ve both got some great
opportunities to do well this season.”
To complete a great day of vaults for Monmouth, Christina Reiner
posted the only women’s victory by clearing 10’0. Teammate Megan
McKenna took third at 9’6-1/4.
“We’ve had some pretty talented kids, and they’ve had their own
unique physical differences,” said Haynes of the Scots’ pole vault
success. “We feel we have a pretty sound technical model in place.
In other words, we teach similar skills to all of them and provide
them the ‘rules to the game.’ But then our vaulters do some of their
own interpretations off of that and figure some things out for
themselves.”
McKenna added a third in the long jump (a personal-best of
16’8-1/4), and she was seventh in the triple jump. Shannon Turczyn
ran the best 55-meter hurdle time of her young career, placing third
in 8.85.
Middle distance runners Sara Ingersoll, Abby Horneck and Lizmeth
Sandoval placed 4-5-7 in both the 800-meter run and the mile.
Ingersoll set a PR of 5:40.94 in the latter event, and she edged
Horneck by less than a second in the 800 (2:31.13).
The women placed third out of 15 teams, scoring 78 points. The only
teams to defeat the Scots were the University of Indianapolis and
SIU-Edwardsville.
Also scoring for the women were Kila Cox in the 400-meter dash,
Markie Bacon in the 55-meter hurdles, Andrea Emery in the high jump,
Reiner in the long jump and triple jump and Amy Horneck in the
triple jump. Jen Babos had a PR of 39’3-1/4 in the shot put but
placed ninth, just outside of the scorers.
Other highlights for the men included Alex Stuart’s runner-up finish
in the triple jump (44’5-1/2); Darin VanNattan’s personal-best,
fourth-place time of 9:11.71 in the 3000-meter run; and Brad Gross’
PR of 52.70 en route to a sixth-place finish in the 400-meter dash.
Also scoring for the men were Daniels in the 200-meter dash, Welty
in the 1000-meter run, Aaron Etienne in the mile, Scott Heair in the
3000-meter run, Tanner Scott in the 5000-meter run, Tim Frank in the
high jump, Albert Greene in the long jump, Sheridan Ray and Emmanuel
Minter in the triple jump and Rebholz in the weight throw.
Monmouth will host the Fighting Scots Invitational on Saturday.
Field events start at 11 a.m. and the running events will begin at
noon. Teams expected to attend are Millikin, Simpson, Illinois
Wesleyan and MWC rivals Beloit and Carroll.
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