Chicago, Illinois - At the historic Haydon
Track - where Jesse Owens competed in the 1930s - the Trinity
Tigers won five men's events Saturday at the University of Chicago
Penultimate meet.
Senior Casey Pikla captured the decathlon, with 5,140 points.
Individually, Pikla won the 100 meters (11.99 seconds), long jump
(20 feet, 1.50 inches; 6.13 meters), high jump (5 feet, 6.50
inches; 1.69 meters), pole vault (13 feet, .25 inches; 3.97 meters)
and the javelin throw (168 feet, 8 inches; 51.41 meters).
Chris Baer, also a senior won the javelin event, with a throw of
178 feet, 11 inches (54.54 meters). Baer previously earned an NCAA
Division III provisional qualifying mark.
Senior Brennen Peters took the 200 meters, clocking in at 22.08
seconds.
Sophomore Zach Brush won the 800 meters, with a time of 1:53.75.
Brush had an earlier NCAA provisional qualifying time.
The 4x400-meter relay team emerged as the meet champion, at
3:22.58. First year Matt Sokolic started off the race, and passed
the baton to senior Todd Wildman. Senior Phil Avocato and Brush had
the final two legs.
Junior Chass Armstrong finished second in the 1,500 meters and
earned a provisional qualifying time (3:54.45).
First-year Justin Campbell was runner-up in the discus, at 165
feet, 4 inches (50.40 meters). Campbell improved his previous
provisional performance of 163 feet, 1 inch.
Corey Callahan, a first-year athlete, placed second in the
women's long jump, at 17 feet, 3.50 inches (5.27 meters).
A number of Tigers competed Friday at the Dr. Keeler
Invitational at Naperville, Ill., including Callahan. She was
seventh in the long jump, with a mark of 16 feet, 11.50 inches
(5.31 meters).
Senior Emily Loeffler won the Dr. Keeler Invitational women's
3,000-meter steeplechase with a best-in-the-nation time of 10
minutes, 33.16 seconds. Loeffler, who placed third in the 2008 NCAA
meet, earned an automatic bid to this year's NCAA Division III
Championships. The meet is slated for May 21-23 at Marietta, Ohio.
D'Ann Arthur, also a senior, picked up an NCAA provisional
qualifying time in the 5,000 meters, clocking in at 17:19.75
(14th in the nation), for a second-place finish. Senior
Liz Eder placed second in the 10,000 meters, at 36:32.86. Eder,
whose time is ranked 17th nationally, earned a
provisional qualifying mark.
Wildman won two men's events on Friday, the 110-meter hurdles
and long jump. Wildman, the national champion in the indoor
pentathlon, ran the hurdles in 14.33 seconds. He previously had an
automatic qualifying time of 14.16 seconds, No. 2 in the nation. In
the long jump, Wildman recorded a mark 23 feet, 4 inches (7.11
meters), the 13th best jump in the nation, and a
provisional qualifying distance. Wildman placed fifth in the high
jump, at 6 feet, 4.75 inches (1.95 meters). He already has an NCAA
automatic jump of 6 feet, 11 inches (2.11meters), second in the
nation.
In addition, Wildman is the national leader in the 400-meter
hurdles (52.36 seconds), which he won at the Southern Collegiate
Athletic Conference Championships.
Peters finished sixth in the 200 meters (21.87 seconds) and
Sokolic was 18th in the 400 meters (51.69 seconds).
The NCAA Championships are slated for May 21-23 at Marietta,
Ohio.
Results-
http://athletics.uchicago.edu/tfresults09/mtf-results-may9.htm
