Posted: Apr 03, 2010
D'Arcy Hlavin
BEREA, OHIO -- The Baldwin Wallace University women's track and field team placed third and the men were fourth at the annual Ohio Athletic Conference Split Squad/OAC East Meet at Don Drumm Stadium on the campus of Marietta College. This is the third week of spring competition for the Yellow Jackets.
The BW women scored 140 points to place third and the men had 105 to finish fourth. Both teams would have done significantly better, but senior decathlete Steve Price (North Olmsted) and junior heptathlete Emily Oliver (Waynesburg/ Sandy Valley) did not accompany the teams to Marietta. Instead the duo competed in a multi-event meet at Liberty (Va.) University and each qualified for the 2010 NCAA Division III National Championship Meet that will be held at BW from May 27-29. You can read more about Price and Oliver'sperformance at http://www.bw.edu/athletics/otf/sched/atliberty2/ .
For the women, five individuals and one relay team claimed first place finishes. Senior D'Arcy Hlavin (Berea)placed first in the 800-meter run and led a 1-2-4-6 Yellow Jacket finish. Freshman Sara Rospert (Milan) was first in the 5,000-meter run in 18:31.40. Sophomore Kara Kasper (Amherst/ Marion Steele) won the 100-meter hurdles in 15.96 seconds. Freshman Christina Perrine (Middleburg Heights/ Midpark) won the discus with a mark of 134-feet and four inches. Senior Erin Norton (Lakewood/ Senior) won the hammer with a throw of 138'6" and led a 1-3-4-5-8 finish. And, the 4 x 800 meter relay team of junior Krysten Kovach (North Royalton/ Parma Padua), sophomores Julie Kotesovec (Litchfield/ Medina Buckeye), Judy Patterson (Aliquippa, Pa./ Monaca Center) and freshman Lauren McGaughey (Allison Park, Pa.) won.
Greg Patrick
For the men, senior All-American shot putter Greg Patrick (Collins/ Western Reserve) and junior All-American discus specialist Kevin Phipps (Pataskala/ Watkins Memorial) led the way in the weight events as each reset a school-record in their specialty. Patrick won the shot put with a school-record throw of 55'0.75" to better his own previous best of 54'10" set two weeks ago at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He also placed second in the hammer with a throw of 157'9" and was fourth in the discus. Phipps won the hammer and led a 1-2-3-4-5-6 finish by the Yellow Jackets with a school-record throw of 193'3" to reset the record by seven inches that he established last week at Cedarville. Phipps also placed second in the discus with a throw of 158'5" and was fifth in the shot put. In addition, senior Jimmy Eberts (North Canton/ Hoover) won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:59.14.
The Yellow Jacket track and field teams next compete on Saturday, April 10 when they travel to Delaware, Ohio to compete at the annual Marv Frye Meet at Ohio Wesleyan University. Field events begin at 11:00 a.m.
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