Four Scots Win Individual Titles at Denison Lid-Lifter

Dierre Taylor

Suzanne Capehart and Elizabeth Wardrop won events while making their collegiate track & field debuts Saturday afternoon to highlight The College of Wooster’s results at the Denison University Lid-Lifter in Granville, Ohio.

In addition to the two first-year’s titles, juniors Kayla Miller and Dierre Taylor also earned victories at the six-team meet. Team scores were not recorded.

Capehart, coming off an all-North Coast Athletic Conference cross country season, led the pack in the mile with a time of 5:32.21, about five seconds ahead of the runner-up. Wardrop made her impact in the high jump, clearing 4 feet, 10.25 inches, which is only 3.75 inches off the school record, while the veteran Miller picked up where she left off in the triple jump as the two-time all-NCAC honoree hit a winning mark of 33 feet, 10.75 inches.

Wooster’s other top women’s performers on Saturday also came in the field. Juniors Ali Drushal and Katie Dale were second-place finishers in the pole vault (9 feet, 0.25 inches) and shot put (34 feet, 11 inches), respectively.

Taylor got his third campaign with the Scots off to a good start, edging Carnegie Mellon University’s Chris Luther at the line for a victory in the 55-meter hurdles (8.25 to 8.28). Taylor owns the Wooster record in that event (7.85).

Also on the track for the Scots, sophomore Bryan Albani was the runner-up in the 55 meters (6.88) and senior Rudy Gilman took third-place in the 3000 meters (9:07.65), and in the field, senior Steve Zumbrun was runner-up in the shot put (44 feet, 4.25 inches) while sophomore Eric Dyer placed third in both the long jump (18 feet, 11.75 inches) and triple jump (41 feet, 5.25 inches).

Wooster will be right back at Denison next Saturday for the North Coast Athletic Conference Relays.