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Rachel Krasich broke her own school record in the
3000-meter steeplechase to open the outdoor track and field season. |
MEET
RESULTS
PHOTO MONTAGE
TERRE HAUTE,
IND. -- The Rose-Hulman track and field squad opened the outdoor
season with the Rose-Hulman Early Bird meet at William M. Welch
Track on a frigid Saturday afternoon.
The unscored
meet featured teams from Dension, DePauw, Hanover, Franklin, and
Lake Erie.
The
Rose-Hulman men were led senior Matt Repking (Effingham,
Ill./Teutopolis) who took top honors in the 3000-meter
steeplechase with a winning effort of 9:36.08, just under six
seconds shy of a Rose-Hulman school record.
Rose-Hulman
4-x-100 meter relay of senior Thomas Reives (Indianapolis/Arsenal
Tech), sophomore Calvin Bueltel (Huntingburg/Southridge),
and freshmen Robby Alumbaugh (Mooresville) and Jerry
Belton (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway West) took top honors in the
event with a time of 43.72 seconds.
The Engineer
4-x-400 meter relay consisting of senior Bill Guiney
(Centerville, Ohio), sophomore Will Reilly
(Indianapolis/North Central), freshman Paul Bouagnon (St.
Charles, Ill./Burlington Central), and Bueltel captured first
place in a winning time of 3:25.70.
Reives also
took second place in the triple jump with a leap of 42’ 1 ½”, with
Bueltel capturing second place honors on the 200-meter dash in 22.66
seconds.
Sophomore
Michael Burris (Terre Haute/North) captured first place in
110-meter hurdles with a winning time of 15.73 seconds.
Other top
finishes for the Rose-Hulman men in the running events included a
second place finish by sophomore Eric Clark (Wooster, Ohio/Triway)
in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:13.11, and third place
showings by freshmen Derek Bischak (Angola) in the 800-meter
run (2:02.26), David Caldwell (Plymouth) in the 3000-meter
steeplechase (10:13.75), Kabe Mattocks (Cloverdale) in the
400-meter hurdles (1:05.53) and Reilly in the 200-meter dash
(23.23).
In the field
events the Rose-Hulman men were led by junior Vince Forcellini
(Cincinnati, Ohio/Colerain) who took second place in the javelin
with a toss of 164’ 3” and third place in the hammer throw with a
distance of 126’ 8”.
Other top
field event finishes included senior Tim Hachfeld (Detroit Lakes,
Minn.) who took second place in the discus with a toss of 126’
1”. Sophomore Matt LaCross (Presque Isle, Mich./Alpena)
picked up a third place finish for the Engineers in the high jump
with a leap of 5’ 8”, while the Engineers got fourth place finishes
from sophomores Jared Stermole (North Ridgeville, Ohip) in
the hammer throw (122’ 6”) and Travis Vanderberg (Kansas City,
Mo./West) in the javelin (147’ 2”).
The
Rose-Hulman women were led by senior Rachel Krasich (Westfield)
who won the 3000-meter steeplechase in a time of 11:47.71, smashing
her own school record time of 12:01.33 established last season.
Senior Katy
Evert (Huntley, Ill.) took third place honors in the 400-meter
hurdles with a time of 1:14.99 and fifth in the 100-meter hurdles in
17.54 seconds, while fellow senior Susan Nickol (Solo,
Ohio/Beaumont School) placed fifth in the 1500-meter run in
5:08.75.
Off the track,
the Engineer women were led by senior Janel Belton (Chesterfield,
Mo./Parkway West) and freshman Satomi Kaminaga (Tokyo,
Japan/American).
Belton
finished the afternoon with five top five finishes winning the
discus with a throw of 115’ 2”, taking third place in the shot put
with a toss of 35’ 8 ½”, finishing fourth in the hammer throw with
an attempt of 103’ 6”, and capturing fifth place honors in the
javelin with a throw of 48’ 10”.
Kaminaga began
her outdoor career as an Engineer by taking first place in the
triple jump with a leap of 29’ 11 ½” and second place in the long
jump with an attempt of 13’ 11 ½”.
Rose-Hulman
picked up a sweep in the javelin, led by junior Liz Ridgway
(Grosse Point, Mich./Northwestern Univ.) who won the event with
a toss of 97’ 8”, third best in Rose-Hulman history, with sophomores
Sabrina Liechty (Coal City, Ind./Clay City) taking second
place (83’ 0”), Katie Moorhead (Wauwatosa, Wis.) third (81’
3”), and Rebecca Fehribach (Columbus, Ohio/Hilliard Darby)
fourth (69’ 4”).
The Engineer
women also took the top four places in the discus with Belton first,
Moorhead second (106’ 0”), Fehribach third (102’ 0”), and junior
Jessica Haraburda (Clinton/South Vermillion) fourth (101’ 2”).
The
Rose-Hulman track and field squads will return to action next
Saturday when they travel to Rhodes College for the Rhodes
Invitational.
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