"It doesn’t get ho-hum at all," Fighting Scots coach Roger Haynes told the Galesburg Register Mail after the Scots picked up their 57th MWC team title during Haynes’ career. "It’s always different kids and the kids are the ones who make you successful."

It wasn’t exactly different kids winning the field events as Tanesha Hughes and Zach Wilson each picked up three firsts. Hughes led a 1-2-3 finish in the women’s discus with an automatic qualifying and school-record mark (156’0). Jenny Babos was second and Allison Renfroe was third. Hughes’ discus mark ranks her third nationally. The junior’s other firsts came in the hammer throw (145’0), where Babos was third, and the shot put (41’7-3/4), where Gloria Lehr placed third and Babos fourth.

Senior Zach Wilson led a 1-2-3 charge in the shot put (49’2-1/2). Freshmen Sam Cokinos and Petyon Lumzy were second and third. Wilson also won the hammer throw (168’6) and Lumzy was fifth.

Megan Clennon’s winning mark in the javelin (124’10) set the stage for the Scots’ other 1-2-3 finish. Lehr placed second and Cassie Jensen was third. Clennon also took first in the high jump (5’6-1/2) and is ranked fourth nationally. Heather Hull placed fourth and Sarah Stinson was fifth.

Five athletes captured their third conference crown in the same event. Wilson picked up his third win of the meet, winning the discus for the third straight year (155’5). Junior Luke Reschke improved his provisional time and took his third straight 400-meter dash title (47.74). Reschke and Brad Gross captured their third 4x400 relay crown (3:19.91), teaming with Aaron Daverin and Jake Stott. The foursome also took second in the 4x100 relay. Stott added a third in the 400 and Gross was sixth. Daverin placed third in the 100 and fourth in the 200.

Jessica White etched her name in the record books with her third straight pole vault title (12’6-1/4). The senior broke her own conference mark in capturing the title and improved her national ranking to fourth. Shannon Turczyn broke the tape in the 100-meter hurdles (14.79) to also lay claim to her third MWC title in the same event in as many tries. Katie Vaccarello was second in the 400-meter hurdles and sixth in the 100-meter hurdles.

While a handful of Scots continued their dominance, one streak came to a close. Jonny Henkins ended teammate Peter Sprecher’s three-year championship reign in the pole vault. Henkins placed first (17’0-3/4), Sprecher was second and freshman Brock McAnally was fourth.

Morgan Leffel (35’3) and Jae Moore placed 1-2 in the triple jump, while Whitney Didier was fifth. Dan Higgins improved his provisional mark and was less than four feet from a conference record while winning the javelin (194’10). Emmanuel Minter was fourth.

Clay Staley and Seth Leitner finished 1-2 in the steeplechase. Staley improved his provisional time while winning the event (9:17.02). Gross broke the tape in the 400-meter hurdles (55.40) and Leitner placed eighth.

Aaron Etienne claimed first in the 1500-meter run (3:56.19), while Staley was third and Adam Rodriguez placed fifth. Etienne added a runner-up finish in the 5000 and Staley was sixth. Rodriguez was also second in the 800.

The two women’s relay teams of Vaccarello, Turczyn, Leffel and Moore placed second. Mary Kate Beyer set a school record in the steeplechase while finishing third (11:38.76) and Jayme Ayers was eighth.

Also placing third to earn all-conference honors were Tim Bentz, 800; Michael Blodgett, long jump; Didier, pole vault; Lumzy, discus; Moore, 100 and 200; Reschke, 200; and Katie Staab, 800.

Other point scorers for the men included Brad Begyn, 10,000 (seventh); Blodgett, triple jump (fifth); Cokinos, discus (fourth); Gross, long jump (fifth); Tyler Hannam, high jump (sixth); Chuck Lief, triple jump (fourth); Saidu Sesay, 100 (fourth); Scott Sheller, 10,000 (fourth); and Sean Wells, high jump (fourth) and triple jump (eighth).

Other point scorers for the women were Beyer, 5000 (sixth) and 1500 (eighth); Didier, 400-meter hurdles (fifth); Leffel, pole vault (fifth), long jump (fifth) and 400 (eighth); Staab, 1500 (fourth) and 5000 (seventh); Turczyn, 100 (fourth) and 200 (fifth); and White, long jump (fourth);

Haynes was named the league’s Coach of the Year for both men and women. Reschke was named the meet’s outstanding men’s track performer. Henkins and Wilson shared the outstanding field performer honors, while Clennon, Hughes and White garnered the women’s outstanding field performer title.