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Scots provisionally qualify
three for nationals at season opener
Release Date:
April 6, 2009
MONMOUTH, Ill. —
Nearly a month off between the
indoor and outdoor seasons had no ill effect on the Monmouth College
women’s and men’s track teams which placed second and seventh,
respectively at last weekend’s 21-team Washington University
Invitational in St. Louis, Mo.
Competing outdoors for the first
time this season, the Fighting Scots provisionally qualified two
women’s throwers and one men’s hurdler.
Tanesha Hughes led the charge with a
pair of firsts and provisionally qualified in two events while
breaking a school record. The senior won the shot put with a
school-record and provisional mark of 44’5-1/2”. Gloria Lehr placed
second with a put of 42’5-1/4” – also a provisional distance. Amanda
Streeter added to the Scots’ point total in the shot, placing sixth.
Hughes picked up another first in the discus winning by nearly 13
feet with a provisional mark of 143’5”. Allison Renfroe placed
eighth.
Lehr threw a pair of personal-bests,
placing fourth in the hammer throw with a career mark of 137’6”. She
also reached a personal-best 119’7” to finish second in the javelin
where Brittany McCline was third at 114’0”, Streeter was fifth and
Heather Hull placed eight. Streeter also placed sixth in the hammer
throw, just ahead of Hughes.
Megan McKenna scored plenty of
points for the Scots in the other field events. The senior cleared
10’10” to place fourth in the pole vault and finished fifth in the
triple jump, just ahead of Jae Moore. McKenna was also eighth in the
long jump. Hull and Sarah Stinson finished 6-7 in the high
jump. On the track, hurdler Shannon Turczyn broke the tape in
the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.33 which would have been a
provisional qualifying time if not for just a bit too much wind.
Times run in the event with more than 4 meters of wind per second
are not credited for NCAA qualifying. The wind for Turczyn’s race
was 4.5. She also took fifth in the 400- hurdles.
Mary Kate Beyer’s 5,000-meter time
will stand. The sophomore clocked a school record 17:58.90 to finish
second. McKenna, Turczyn, Moore and Brittany Lowdermilk ran to a
third-place finish in the 4x100 with a time of 50.13. Katie Staab
took seventh in the 1,500-. Seventh place finishes were earned by
Lindsie Pettie in the 400- and Moore in the 100-. Moore also placed
eighth in the 200-meters.
On the men’s side, Logan Hohl
punched his provisional ticket to the national outdoor meet. The
sophomore placed third in the 400- hurdles with a provisional
qualifying time of 53.71, just .10 off the lead. Andre Taylor, Aaron
Daverin, Kyle Prout and Saidu Sesay teamed for a fourth-place finish
in the 4x100 relay. Geoff Bird ran a personal-best in the
10,000-meters, turning in a sixth-place time of 32:50.17.Sesay added
to the point total by taking eighth in the 100-meters.
Dan Higgins’ second place in the
javelin was the Scots’ highest finish in the men’s field events. His
throw of 187’6” was less than 20 feet off the lead. Sean Wells place
fourth. Tyler Hannam’s high jump of 6’2-1/4” placed him in a tie for
third. Wells tied for sixth and Matt Hassler was eighth. Peyton
Lumzy scored in three events for the Scots, placing fourth in the
shot put, fifth in the discus and eighth in the hammer throw with a
personal-best 144’6”. Nick Wright took seventh in the triple jump.
The Scots will host Knox, Millikin
and Illinois Wesleyan in a quad meet this weekend at April Zorn
Memorial Stadium. The hammer throw begins at 10:30 at Peacock
Memorial Park. The rest of the field events begin at noon at the
stadium. Running events are slated for a 12:30 start.
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