BEREA, OHIO -- The Baldwin Wallace University indoor track and field teams competed at the 2009 Ohio Athletic Conference Relay meet today (Saturday, January 31) in Westerville. The Yellow Jacket women placed fourth of 10 teams with 83 points and the men finished fifth with 85.

Highlighting the day for the women was a first-place finish by the distance medley relay team in a time of 12:45.66. The 4x800 meter relay team also finished first with a time of 9:55.57. Individually, sophomoreRachel Marinucci (Brunswick) placed third in the shot put with a throw of 11.76 meters. BW also got three fourth-place finishes from sophomores Emily Oliver (Waynesburg/Sandy Valley) in the high jump (4-10.00),Karin Coyne (Columbia Station/Columbia) in the 5,000m run (19:09.83) and Krysten Kovach (North Royalton/Parma Padua Franciscan) in the 3,000m run with a time of 11:04.49

For the men, junior Greg Patrick (Collins/Western Reserve) finished second in the shot put with a toss of 14.81 meters. Senior Derek Hill (Fremont/Ross) was third in the 3,000m run with a time of 9:07.48 and juniorSteve Price (North Olmsted) was fifth in the long jump at 6.34m. The distance medley relay team placed second with a time of 10:32.00, the 4x800m relay team finished third in 8:11.03 and the 4x200m relay team finished fourth in 1:34.30.

The Yellow Jackets return to action next Friday, February 6 as hosts of the BW Indoor Meet. All of the action from the Harrison Dillard Track in the Lou Higgins Recreation Center begins at 5:00 p.m.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please contact BW Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327, by FAX machine at 440-826-2329 or via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu.  To contact Head Coach Bill Taraschke, please call him at 440-826-3322 or e-mail him at wtarasch@bw.edu. You can get all of the latest BW athletics information by visiting our Web site at www.bw.edu/athletics.