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Jill Berner's school-record height of 10 feet, four inches in
the pole vault highlighted four College of Wooster wins at the
non-scoring Oberlin Invitational this past weekend (Feb. 13) during
indoor track and field action.
While team scores were not tracked, student-athletes from Case
Western Reserve University, Cuyahoga Community College, Notre Dame
(Ohio) College, host Oberlin College, Thiel College, West Liberty
State College, and Wooster competed for individual honors.
Berner, whose previous best mark indoors was 10 feet, two inches,
topped a field of five competitors, and teammates Chris
Taft, Katie
Wieferich, and James Williams joined her on the victory stand.
Taft won the men's 1500 meters (4:15.40), Wieferich was the first
to cross the line in the women's 3000 meters (11:23.49), and Williams
took first in the men's long jump (21 feet, 0.75 inches).
The Scots had several other near-winners, as Laura Barnhart, Dana
Doran-Myers, Robert Kelm, Tim
Presto, and Tony Sutton placed second
in the women's 400 meters (1:04.51), women's high jump (four feet,
10.25 inches, men's 55-meter hurdles (8.34), men's 1500 meters
(4:19.40), and men's 55- meter dash (6.73), respectively.
Patrick Wynne gave Wooster a 1-2-3 sweep in the men's 1500 meters
(4:23.10), while Noel Wells backed up Wieferich in the 3000 meters
with a third-place effort (12:06.13).
While the majority of the Scots' track and field team was at Oberlin,
two throwers - Keith Vance and Rick Drushal - traveled to Ohio
Northern University on Saturday (Feb. 14) for the Div. III All-Ohio
Championships, hosted by Ohio Northern University. They finished
second (48 feet, 3.25 inches) and sixth (45 feet, nine inches),
respectively. |
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