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Anastasia Tarpeh became the first female track and
field student-athlete to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Division III
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MEET
RESULTS
PHOTO MONTAGE
TERRE
HAUTE, IND. - The Rose-Hulman men's and women's track teams captured
top honors at the Hoosier-Buckeye Invitational in the Sports and
Recreation Center on Saturday.
The
first-year meet
featured all eight track and field programs from the Heartland
Collegiate Athletic Conference.
The men
won the meet with a total of 223.5 points, while the women posted a
team total of 105 points to capture top honors.
Freshman
Anastasia Tarpeh (Cincinnati, Ohio/Walnut Hills) highlighted
the meet, taking first place in the 55-meter dash and 200-meter dash
with school records in each event.
Tarpeh
recorded an NCAA provisional mark with a time of 7.32 seconds in the
55-meter dash and won the 200-meter dash in 26.42 seconds. Her
effort marked the first NCAA provisional qualification in the
history of women's track and field at Rose-Hulman.
Senior
Thomas Reives (Indianapolis/Arsenal Tech) and sophomore
Calvin Bueltel (Huntingburg/Southridge) were top performers for
the Engineer men.
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Thomas Reives won the high jump and the triple jump at
the Hoosier-Buckeye Invitational. |
Reives
finished the afternoon with first place finishes in the high jump
(6' 4") and the triple jump (42' 8 3/4"). He also tallied a
second place finish in the 55-meter dash in 6.63 seconds, the third
fastest time in the event in Rose-Hulman history.
Bueltel
took first place honors in the 200-meter dash with the second best
time in Rose-Hulman history at 23.00 seconds. Bueltel also ran
the fourth fastest time in school history in the 55-meter dash to
earn third place in 6.64 seconds, and ran a leg of the winning
4-x-400 relay squad.
Sophomore
Michael Burris (Terre Haute/North) took top honors in the
55-meter hurdles with a winning time of 7.98 seconds. Freshmen
Marcus Peck (Indianapolis/Ben Davis) and Jack Lee
(Cedarburg, Wisc.) completed the sweep the event for the
Engineers, with Peck taking second place in 8.15 and Lee third in
8.21.
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The Engineers were all smiles after capturing both
titles. |
The
Rose-Hulman men dominated the 200-meter dash taking the top four
places. Bueltel captured top honors with Burris second
(23.63), freshman EJ Oruche (Fishers/Bishop Chatard) third
(23.77) and Jerry Belton (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway West)
fourth (23.85).
The
Engineer 4-x-400 meter relay consisting of senior Bill Guiney
(Centerville, Ohio), sophomore Will Reilly
(Indianapolis/North Central), Buletel, and Peck took first place
in a winning time of 3:29.78.
Other
notables for the Engineer men included second place finishes by
freshman Paul Bouagnon (St. Charles, Ill./Burlington Central)
in the 400-meter dash in 52.05, sophomore Eric Clark (Wooster,
Ohio/Triway) in the mile run in 4:27.69, and senior Matt
Repking (Effinghman, Ill./Teutopolis) in the 5000-meter run in
15:39.97, third best in Rose-Hulman history.
The
Engineer men picked up third place finishes from freshman Michael
Hackman (Seymour) in the triple jump (38' 4 3/4") and Reilly in
the 400-meter dash in 52.43 seconds.
For the
Rose-Hulman women, senior Janel Belton (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway
West) completed her Senior Day with first-place efforts in the
shot put and weight throw. Her mark of 46' 5 1/4" in the
weight throw smashed the previous school record by nearly three
feet, and she added a toss of 38' 4 1/4" in the shot put.
Senior
Rachel Krasich (Westfield) ran a leg of the winning distance
medley relay and captured second place finishes in the 800-meter run
in 2:29.54 and mile run in 5:20.87. The mile time established
a new Rose-Hulman school record.
Fellow
senior Katy Evert (Huntley, Ill.) broke the Rose-Hulman
school record in the 55-meter hurdles with a mark of 9.60 seconds in
a fourth-place effort.
The
distance medley relay of senior Susan Nickol (Solon,
Ohio/Beaumont School), sophomore Amanda Lundahl (Lake Forest,
Ill.), Evert, and Krasich clinched the meet for the woman's
squad by taking first place in a time of 13:12.83.
Junior
Jessica Haraburda (Clinton/South Vermillion) took second place
in the weight throw with a toss of 43' 3" for the Engineer women's
squad.
The
Engineers will take a Winter Quarter break for the next two weeks
and return to action at DePauw University on March 7.
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