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BW Individuals Compete at ONU Last Chance Meet

Tyler Burdorff
Tyler Burdorff

ADA, Ohio – Six Baldwin Wallace University men's and women's track and field individuals competed at the Ohio Northern University "Last Chance" Indoor Meet in the ONU Sports Center. Two Yellow Jackets, junior women's Division III All-American Kim Gallavan (Auburn Township/ Chagrin Falls Kenston) and junior men's thrower Tyler Burdorff (Painesville/ Riverside), bettered their NCAA standing at the meet.

Burdorff moved up to ninth in Division III with a career-best throw of 61-feet and nine-inches (61'9") in the weight throw. In addition, sophomore Ian Ramos (Norwalk) placed 12th and had a career-best throw of 49'3.5".

Burdorff will be joined at the Div. III National Championship Meet this weeikend by junior All-American sprinter Ben Beidleman (Washington, D.C./ Saint Anselm's Abbey), who competed in the 60 and 200-meter dashes.

Beidleman
 placed fourth in the 200 in 22.56 seconds. It was .38 seconds off his season and career-best of 22.18 seconds which ranks 13th in Division III this winter.

The NCAA Division III National Championship Meet is this Friday-Saturday, March 13-14 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and hosted by Roanoke (Va.) College.