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Sat.
NCAA Track: Men place 9th, Women get 13th
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The St.
Thomas men had three top-five finishes Saturday and
finished ninth with 19 points in the NCAA Division III
Track and Field Championships in Decatur, Ill.
The Tommie men had seven All-Americans. The St. Thomas
women finished in 13th place with 21 points and had six
All-Americans. |
The Tommie men's 4x100 relay unit of Jeremy Krentz, Tom
Hart, Cassidy Glad and Carson Glad clocked 41.42 and
placed third to claim six team points. Carson Glad later
took fifth in the 400 dash in 47.82 to score four more
points. The Tommies' 4x400 relay of P. J. Thiesen,
Carson and Cassidy Glad and Jason Schwietz placed fifth
in 3:13.73. Joe Thomas scored five points in Friday's
high jump. It was the sixth consecutive year the Tommie
men's 4x400 placed in the top five.
The Tommie women were disqualified in the 4x100 relay,
but bounced back and got an eighth from junior Brigid
Power in the 1,500 in 4:35.04 for her first career
All-America honor; and placed fifth in the 4x400 relay
in 3:47.79 with Alicia Wolff, Christina Chapman, Kristal
Grigsby and Molly Bauman.
In Power's race, just .60 of a second seperated the
third through eighth-place finishers in the 1,500.
The Tommie women got 10 points from Grigsby's victory in
Thursday's long jump and six points from Karolien
Bastiaens third-place finish in Thursday's pole vault.
Fri.
NCAA Track: Joe Thomas 4th in High Jump
St.
Thomas senior Joe Thomas repeated as an All-American
with a fourth-place leap of 6-9 in the high jump Friday
at the NCAA Division III Track & Field Championships
in Decatur, Ill.
Thomas, who jumped 6-11 for second place at the 2003
outdoor nationals, was in the last group to qualify for
nationals as his previous best of 6-8 was tied for 14th
and dangerously near the cutoff. He scored five team
points for the UST men.
The Tommie women still have 16 points through two days.
Soph Kristal Grigsby, who won Thursday's long jump, tied
for ninth in Friday's high jump at 5-3 3/4. St. Thomas
will have its women's 4x100 and 4x400 relays plus Brigid
Power in the 1,500 meters on Saturday as it tries to hit
30 points and place among the top five teams.
The Gustavus women picked up 10 points as senior Kristin
Petersen won the discus in 159-6.
In Friday prelims, UST junior Bryce Beckman ran 1:52.05
but failed to make the eight-man finals in the 800
meters. Tommie junior Carson Glad advanced to Saturday's
finals in the 400 meters with the fifth-best prelim time
of 47.51. Glad will also run with UST's 4x100 and 4x400
relays in Saturday's finals as St. Thomas tries to reach
20 team points and finish in the top 10-15 of the team
race.
Toms
send 8 men, 7 women to NCAA T&F meet
see
NCAA Track home page here for schedule, results links
The MIAC will have 51 athletes -- including eight men
and seven women from St. Thomas -- competing this
weekend in the NCAA Division III Track & Field
Championships in Decatur, Ill. The competition runs
Thursday through Sunday May 27-29 on the campus of
Millikin University.
The Tommie men will try to post their sixth consecutive
top-5 finish in the 4x400 relay. Coach Steve Mathre's
team placed third in that event in a photo finish last
year and placed second in the 4x400 in the NCAA indoor
meet. Juniors Carson Glad, Jason Schwietz and Cassidy
Glad and freshman P.J. Theisen will compete in the
4x400, which is seeded seventh but is just a shade
behind the time of the No. 2 seed.
Carson Glad will also compete in the 400 meters, where's
he's seeded third, and in the 4x100 (seeded ninth) with
Cassidy Glad, senior Tom Hart and junior Jeremy Krentz.
Theisen will also run the 400 hurdles, where he's seeded
sixth. Junior Bryce Beckman is seeded eighth in the 800
meters. Senior Joe Thomas, the 2003 NCAA outdoor
runner-up with a 6-11 leap, is tied for 14th in the high
jump with a season best of 6-8.
St. John's has three men qualified in four events, while
Carleton will have two distance runners competing.
Concordia, Bethel, Augsburg, St. Olaf and St. Mary's
each has one qualifier.
On the women's side, Coach Joe Sweeney has seven Tommie
athletes competing in six events. Sophomore Kristal
Grigsby is seeded second in the high jump and long jump;
senior Karolien Bastiaens, the 2003 NCAA runner-up, is
seeded fourth in the pole vault; junior Andretta Colley
is seeded fifth in the long jump; and junior Brigid
Power is seeded 10th in the 1,500 meters.
In the relays, UST junior Molly Bauman, soph Christina
Chapman, Grigsby and junior Alicia Wolff will run in
both the 4x100 (seeded 12th) and 4x400 (seeded third).
St. Thomas placed third last year at nationals in the
4x400.
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