Scots Part of Greater Cleveland Championships This Friday

Ali Drushal

The College of Wooster will be one of eight northeast Ohio indoor track & field teams competing at the Greater Cleveland Championships this Friday, Feb. 16. The annual meet is hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College, and also will feature Case Western Reserve University, Hiram College, John Carroll University, Mt. Union College, Notre Dame (Ohio) College, and Oberlin College. Action is scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m. Last season, the Fighting Scot men finished eighth of nine squads and the women came in seventh-place of eight.

    Last Week: On Feb. 9-10, Tristan Jordan (Virginia Beach, Va. / Floyd E. Kellam) won the triple jump at the All-Ohio Championships, highlighting a busy weekend for Wooster’s teams as they competed at a pair of meets. On Friday night, the Scot men placed third at the six-team Oberlin Invitational while the women were sixth, and then Saturday, a select group competed at the All-Ohio meet in Westerville.
    Jordan’s leap of 44 feet, 7.5 inches was over a foot better than the runner-up and just 5.5 inches shy of the school record, while teammate Eric Dyer (Lexington, Mass. / Lexington) took sixth in the competition (42 feet, 2 inches). Another strong performance was turned in by Bryan Albani (Warren, Ohio / Howland) at the All-Ohio’s, as he placed third overall in the 55-meter hurdles, becoming just the second at Wooster to crack the eight-second barrier (7.93) in the process. Also scoring was Rick Drushal (Lakeville, Ohio / West Holmes), who came in seventh-place in the shot put (44 feet, 0.75 inches), giving the Scots a ninth-place team finish.
    In the women’s portion of the All-Ohio Championships, Wooster had two individual competitors and one scored, as Ali Drushal (Lakeville, Ohio / West Holmes)  placed fifth in the pole vault (9 feet, 8 inches).
    On Friday night in Oberlin, the Scot men scored 101 points, led by Tim Presto (Wadsworth, Ohio / Wadsworth) and Terry Workman (Hillsboro, Ohio / Edward Lee McClain) in the mile event, in which they crossed the line first and second with respective times of 4:44.92 and 4:48.51. Presto also contributed a third-place performance in the 800 meters (2:04.96). Averell Gatton (McLean, Va. / Langley) scored significant points in two events as well, taking runner-up in the triple jump (40 feet, 5.5 inches) and third in the high jump (5 feet, 6 inches), while Wooster’s other top-three finish came from Chris Goodness (Honolulu, Hawaii / Punahou) in the pole vault (8 feet, 6 inches).
    The Scot women were led at Oberlin by Kayla Miller (Mercer, Pa. / Mercer Area), KateLynn Riley (Westlake, Ohio / Westlake), and Sara Wiswell (Broadview Hts., Ohio / Brecksville-Broadview Hts.). Miller was runner-up in the high jump, clearing a height of 4 feet, 7.5 inches, and the triple jump, hitting a mark of 37 feet, 7.5 inches, while Riley and Wiswell placed third in the 55 hurdles (9.45) and pole vault (8 feet, 6 inches), respectively.