Jordan Highlights Scots' Track Weekend

Ali Drushal

Tristan Jordan won the triple jump at the All-Ohio Championships, highlighting a busy weekend for The College of Wooster track & field teams as they competed at a pair of meets. On Friday night, Wooster’s men’s team placed third at the six-team Oberlin Invitational while the women were sixth, and then Saturday, a select group of Fighting Scots 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 took sixth in the competition (42 feet, 2 inches). Another strong performance was turned in by Bryan Albani 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, 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 competition at the All-Ohio Championships, Wooster had two individual competitors and one scored, as Ali Drushal 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 and Terry Workman 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 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 in the pole vault (8 feet, 6 inches).

The Scot women were led at Oberlin by Kayla Miller, KateLynn Riley, and Sarah Wiswell. Miller was runner-up in both 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.