MONMOUTH, Ill. – With the Midwest Conference indoor track
championships coming up this weekend, the Monmouth College track
team was more interested in improving performances than the team
scores at Saturday’s Wartburg Invitational.
As a team, the Scots’ men finished second and the women were
third in the three team meet. But it was the improvement of the
performances that lifted the Scots. Monmouth provisionally qualified
three additional events – two men’s and one women’s – for next
month’s national meet.
Junior Luke Reschke (Geneseo, Ill./Geneseo) led the list of
provisional qualifiers. He posted the nation’s top time in winning
the 400-meters with a personal-best (48.93). He teamed with Aaron
Daveron (Herscher, Ill./Herscher), Jacob Stott (Morris, Ill./Coal
City) and Brad Gross (Galesburg, Ill./Galesburg) to win the 4x400
relay with a provisional qualifying mark (3:20.27). The time is less
than two seconds off the automatic qualifying time and is tops in
the Midwest Conference. Daveron picked up two additional firsts –
winning the 55-meters (6.57) and the 200 (22.51). The 200 time was a
personal best and ranks him third in the conference. He tied his
personal best in the 55 meter race and is ranked fourth in the
league in that event. Gross and Stott finished 2-3 behind Daverin in
the 200 (22.7 and 22.81, respectively).
Zach Wilson also claimed a pair of firsts. For the second week in
a row, Wilson threw 60’4" in the weight throw, just missing the
automatic qualifying mark by two inches. His 49’9-3/4" mark in the
shot was just in front of freshman Peyton Lumzy in second
(45’9-1/4"). Clay Staley logged a personal- and conference-best time
while winning the mile (4:20.60). Scott Sheller logged a
personal-best, despite losing a shoe early in the race, with his
third place finish in the 3,000-meters (9:13.69).
The Scots finished 1-2-3 in the pole vault. Seniors Jonny Henkins
and Peter Sprecher each cleared provisional heights of 16’6-3/4’,
with Henkins declared the winner on attempts. Freshman Brock
McAnally took third (13’11-1/4"). Sheridan Ray moved to third in the
MWC rankings and placed second in the long jump (21’4"). Chuck Lief
triple jumped 43’5-1/4" to place third in the event. Tyler Hannam
improved his high jump by four inches and moved into fourth in the
MWC, clearing 6’3-1/4" to take third.
Shannon Turczyn (Peru, Ill./LaSalle-Peru) qualified provisionally
in the 55-meter hurdles prelims (8.55) and finished third in the
finals (8.68). Her prelim time ranks her tops in the MWC by more
than a half-second. Morgan Leffel recorded a personal-best while
taking first in the 400 (1:00.94). She is ranked second in the
conference. Jessica White and Whitney Dider vaulted to a 1-2 finish
in the pole vault. White cleared 11’11-3/4" and Dider posted a
personal-best 10’0". Didier’s mark moves her to third in the MWC.
Megan Clennon tied her personal-best in the high jump with a winning
height of 5’3". Sarah Stinson and Heather Hull tied for third in the
event. Their mark of 5’1" tied Stinson’s best and was a career mark
for Hull. Clennon is ranked first in the conference, Hull and
Stinson are ranked tied for fourth.
Gloria Lehr claimed first in the shot put (41’5-3/4") and Tanesha
Hughes, competing for the first time this season was third
(39’10-1/2"). Hughes’ mark ranks her fourth in the league. The pair
threw personal-bests in the weight throw. Hughes was second
(46’7-1/2") and Lehr was fourth (45’4-1/2") to move to second and
fourth in the league standings. Jae Moore logged a personal-best in
the 200-meters where she finished third (26.95). She is ranked third
in the MWC.
Other personal-bests came from Katie Staab in the 800 (2:25.98),
who is ranked second in the conference, and Peyton Lumzy in the
men’s weight throw (46’8-1/4").
The Scots travel to Jacksonville this weekend for the MWC Indoor
Championships.
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