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 Posted February 25th, 2006 By: Sam McCarthy, Assistant Sports Information Director School Records Go Down as Crusader Teams Place Third at Ohio Northern Friday Night Series #5 >>MEN'S RESULTS >>WOMEN'S RESULTS (ADA, Ohio) – Four school records were broken and many season marks were set as the Capital University track & field team competed at Ohio Northern University as part of their Friday Night Series last night at King Horn Sports Center in Ada, Ohio. Both the men's and women's teams placed third with 82 and 109 points respectively. Ohio Northern won on the men's and women's side with Heidelberg College's men (95 points) and Baldwin-Wallace College's women (118 points) coming in second second. School records were set by Jeremy Mulkey (Dublin/Dublin Coffman) in 55-meter dash, Melissa Burgei (Ottawa/Ottawa-Glandorf) in the mile-run, Shelly Gaines (Grove City/Central Crossing) in the 800-meter run, and Brad Armstrong (Urbana/Urbana) in the weight throw. Mulkey's time of 6.45 in the prelims of the 55-meter dash set a school record, shattering his own mark of 6.54 from last season. He is currently sitting 11th on the NCAA 55-meter dash qualifying list with one more week to qualify. Burgei and Gaines set school marks in distance events, the one-mile run for Burgei and the 800-meter run for Gaines. Burgei's time was 5:29.54 and Gaines' time was 2:26.66. Gaines' time qualified her for the OAC meet next weekend. Armstrong bested his own mark in the weight throw with a toss of 39-03.75 to set a school mark. Other notables on the men's side included freshman Joe Miceli (Newark/Newark Catholic) shaving four seconds off his best 800-meter run of the year, crossing at 2:01.53, only two seconds off the school record. Also, junior Syl Eddy (Columbus/Bishop Ready) was tops in the long jump, jumping a season-best 43-10.00, while junior Adam Fausnaugh (Asheville/Teays Valley) threw a season-best 44-08.25 in the shot put, finishing fourth overall at the meet. Junior Nate Thornhill (Xenia/Xenia) won the 55-meter hurdles at 7.88 seconds, while junior Brian Pelanda (Marysville/Marysville) crossed at second in the 300-meter dash at 37.16 seconds. On the women's side, senior Erica Basinger (West Jefferson/Worthington Kilbourne) finished third and ran a season-best 1:01.65 in the 400-meter dash as she and freshman Liz Ramsey (North Canton/Hoover) (1:02.20) each qualified for the OAC's with their times. Freshmen Lizzy Stanton (Cincinnati/Withrow International) and Krissy Short (Marysville/Fairbanks) finished third in the 55-meter dash and 300-meter dash respectively, with times of 7.83 and 45.20. The women's 4x200 meter relay team took first place with a time of 1:47.91, while Basinger and sophomore Christina Heineike (Sunbury/Buckeye Valley) came in second and third in the long jump with OAC qualifying marks of 16-04.25 and 16-03.75 respectively. Capital's track & field team will make their third visit in four weeks to Ohio Northern next weekend for the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships on Friday and Saturday. |
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