ALLIANCE, OHIO – The Baldwin Wallace University men's indoor track and field team placed fourth at the 2013 Ohio Athletic Conference North Split Squad Meet tonight at the University of Mount Union in Peterson Fieldhouse in the McPherson Academic & Athletic Complex. This was the second indoor meet of the winter for the Yellow Jackets.
The Yellow Jacket men were fourth of five
teams and scored 85 points.
The Yellow Jacket men were led by senior NCAA Division III
All-American and Ohio Athletic Conference Field Athlete-of-the-Week
thrower Mitch
Supan (Medina/ Walsh Jesuit), junior Kevin
Johnson (Maple Heights/ St. Ignatius) and senior 2011
Ohio Athletic Conference Co-Cross Country Runner of the Year
Kenny Janosko (Mentor).
The first place finishers for BW included Supan
in the shot put with a throw of 16.65 meters,
Johnson in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.89
seconds, and Janosko in the 5,000-meter run with a mark of
15:25.51. The men's 4 x 400-meter relay team, comprised of
junior Josiah
Holt (Elyria/ Grafton Midview), sophomore Ryan
Weir (Lodi / Cloverleaf), and freshmen Ben
Biedelman and Jarod
Conrad (West Lafayette), also won for the Yellow
Jackets, crossing the finish line in a time of 3:31.43.
Supan also placed second in the weight throw with
a distance of 17.84 meters.
Placing third in their respective field events were senior Div.
III national qualifier Zach
Marinucci (Brunswick) in the shot put with a throw of
15.93 meters and senior Jake
Buckey (Geneva) in the weight throw with a distance of
15.62 meters.
The Yellow Jacket track and field teams are back in action on
Saturday, February 2 at The College of Wooster Fighting Scot
Invitational Meet in the new Scot Center at 12:00 noon. The
next home meet is on Friday, February 8 when the BW hosts the
Mid-February Meet on the Harrison Dillard Track at 5:00 p.m.
FOR MORE BW SPORTS INFORMATION, please contact
Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at
440-826-2327 and e-mail at kruple@bw.edu or Assistant SID Jeff
Miller by phone at 440-826-2780 and email at jefmille@bw.edu. Fans
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