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Anastasia Tarpeh highlighted the Little State Meet
opening day with two top six finishes. |
RESULTS
INDIANAPOLIS,
IND. -- The Rose-Hulman
men's track and field squad combined for 11 top-10 efforts at the
2008 Little State Championships on Friday and Saturday.
Senior Matt Repking
(Effingham, Ill./Teutopolis) led the Engineers with a
second-place effort in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. He
recorded a time of 9:38.50 despite windy conditions.
Senior Rachel Krasich
(Westfield) added a third-place finish in the women's
3,000-meter steeplechase. Krasich finished the race in a time
of 11:50.08 in the effort.
Freshman Anastasia Tarpeh
(Cincinnati, Ohio/Walnut Hills) contributed a school record and
a pair of top-six qualification efforts. Tarpeh set a school
mark in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.71 for sixth place and
tallied the second-best 200-meter time with a 26.36 and fifth place.
Sophomore Jonathan Rogers
(Terre Haute/North) and sophomore Travis Vanderberg (Kansas
City, Mo./West) rounded out the men's top five performances with
fifth place efforts in field efforts. Rogers leaped 13' 5 1/2"
in the pole vault, while Vanderberg was fifth in the javelin throw
with a toss of 158' 10".
On the women's side, junior
Liz Ridgway (Grosse Pointe, Mich./Northwestern University)
pitched in with a top-five finish in the javelin throw.
Ridgway was fifth overall with her effort of 101' 5".
Sophomore
Michael Burris (Terre Haute/North) added a seventh place finish
in the 110 high hurdles with a time of 15.54.
Other top finishers included
junior Vince Forcellini (Cincinnati, Ohio/Colerain) with a
ninth in the javelin throw (149' 0").
freshman Marcus Peck (Indianapolis/Ben Davis)
with a 10th in the 110 high hurdles (15.86); and sophomore
Jessica Haraburda (Clinton/South Vermillion) with a 10th in the
women's hammer (123' 11").
The Engineers return to action
at the Rose-Hulman Twilight Meet at the William Welch Track and
Field Complex on Friday. |
