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Scots collect four
provisional performances, run nation's second fastest time
Release Date:
February 17, 2009
MONMOUTH, Ill. —
The Monmouth
College track teams answered coach Roger Haynes’ challenge to
improve their performances leading up to the conference
championships with four provisional qualifying marks – including the
second-best performance in the nation – and a school record as the
men finished second and the women third at last weekend’s nine-team
Fighting Scot Invitational.
The men’s 4x400
relay team logged the second-fastest time in the nation Saturday.
Jacob Stott, Logan Hohl, Shane Reschke and Luke
Reschke won the event with a provisional-qualifying time while
improving their league-leading time and setting the track record
(3:19.82). The time is less than a second off the nation’s top time.
In his first hurdle
event this season, Hohl not only won the event with the conference’s
top time, his winning time (7.61) equaled both the track record and
his personal-best while qualifying him provisionally for next
month’s NCAA Indoor National Championships. Luke Reschke also took
first in the 400- (50.00) just in front of Stott in second (50.27).
Ryan Hardman placed eighth in the 400- (51.96).
In the 200-, Hohl
placed third (22.73), Saidu Sesay was fifth (23.19) and
Kyle Prout took seventh (23.22). Geoff Bird finished
sixth in the 3000- (9:13.77) and Damon Bautista clocked a
conference and personal-best to finish seventh in the 800-
(1:58.99).
Sean Wells and
Tyler Hannam finished 1-2 in the high jump after each cleared
identical heights (6’6). Matt Hassler placed sixth (6’3-1/2).
Brock McAnally tied for third in the pole vault (14’5-1/4).
Nick Wright
scored in the triple jump and long jump. Wright was fourth in the
long jump (21’1-1/2) and tied for sixth in the triple jump
(42’11-3/4). Michael Blodgett finished just back of Wright in
the long jump (20’8-1/2) and Patrick McNeil was seventh
(20’3-3/4).
Sam Cokinos
led three scorers in the shot put, placing fourth, improving his
conference-leading distance with a personal-best mark (48’11-1/2).
Peyton Lumzy placed sixth (48’2) and Paul Terpening
was eighth (44’3-1/4). Lumzy also took fifth in the weight throw
(47’5-3/4).
Gloria Lehr
improved her conference-best mark in the women’s shot put, winning
the event while throwing a school record and provisional qualifying
distance (43’4-1/2). Tanesha Hughes, competing for the first
time this season, was second (40’2). Lehr also took second in the
weight throw (47’10-3/4) where Amanda Streeter was fifth
(46’5-1/4) and Hughes was sixth (45’4-1/2).
Shannon Turczyn
clocked a provisional time and improved her conference-best time in
the prelims of the 55- hurdles (8.49). She placed third in the
finals (8.57) and was sixth in the 200- (27.48).
Jae Moore
clocked two personal-bests in the sprints. Moore took third in the
200- (26.83) and fourth in the 55-meter dash (7.46). Moore also hit
a personal-best in the triple jump to place sixth (33’10).
Brittany Lowdermilk took fifth in the 55- (7.62). Kaci
Lierman ran to a fourth-place finish in the 400- (1:01.87).
The Scots distance
runners continued a solid season, placing two in scoring position in
the mile. Mary Kate Beyer (5:18.77) and Katie Staab
(5:25.33) each clocked personal-bests to place fourth and seventh,
respectively. Staab also ran a career-best to finish third in the
3000- (11:02.68).
In the pole vault,
Megan McKenna took fourth and Whitney Didier was sixth
when each cleared the same mark (10-10). Heather Hull tied
for fifth and Sarah Stinson was eighth in the high jump after
each cleared identical heights (4’11-1/2). Morgan Leffel
placed eighth in the triple jump (32’7-1/2).
The Scots travel to
Wartburg Saturday for their final competition before hosting next
week’s Midwest Conference Indoor Championships.
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