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Six to national meet
Release Date:
March 9, 2009
MONMOUTH, Ill. —
The Monmouth College track team
will be represented by six athletes in five events at this weekend’s
NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in
Terre Haute, Ind.
The Scots’ best chance for a medal
comes in the men’s 4x400 relay, where three members of last year’s
fourth-place team return. Seniors Luke Reschke (Geneseo,
Ill./Geneseo) and Jacob Stott (Morris, Ill./Coal
City) and sophomore Logan Hohl (Orion, Ill./Orion)
earned All-American honors last season and are joined by junior
Ryan Hardman (Broadview, Ill./St. Joseph). The
foursome shaved nearly two seconds off their season best at
Saturday’s Last Chance Qualifier at the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Their time of 3:17.53 is the nation’s
second-best, less than a half second behind Oneonta-SUNY. Oneonta
ran their season best last weekend at their conference
championships.
Reschke and Stott will also compete in
the 400-meter dash. Reschke lowered his provisional time to 48.85
Saturday at the UW-Stevens Point meet. The time seeds the six-time
All-American third in the event, less than seven tenths off the pace
of the leader, Eric Theiss of Oneonta. Stott showed a flair for the
dramatic, running his only provisional qualifying time on the last
day of the season, and his 49.90 time at
Stevens Point captured the final spot at the
national meet. Hohl ran his best 55-hurdles time nearly a month ago
at the Fighting Scot Invitational. His time of 7.61 has him seeded
seventh, less than two tenths off the top time set by William Brown
of Montclair
State.
Two Scots women will be traveling to
the championships.
Senior Shannon Turczyn (Peru,
Ill./LaSalle-Peru) will make her third appearance at the
indoor championships and fifth overall. A three-time All-American
outdoors, Turczyn’s 55-meter hurdles school record of 8.33 set at
the conference meet two weeks ago seeds her seventh at the national
meet, just three tenths behind the leader, Sumer Rohrs of Frostburg
State. Junior Gloria Lehr (Knoxville,
Ill./Knoxville)
threw the shot put a school record 44’8” at the Midwest Conference
Championships last month to earn her spot in the national meet. Her
mark seeds her ninth, less than three feet behind the leader, St.
Lawrence’s Alyssa Pirinelli.
The national meet begins Friday at the
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
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