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Illinois Wesleyan Teams Compete at Wheaton Twilight Meet

4/18/2010 12:34:34 PM

Complete Results, Wheaton Twilight Meet, April 17

WHEATON, Ill. - The Illinois Wesleyan women's track team finished second (of seven) and the men's team was sixth (of eight) at the Wheaton Twilight Invitational, which finished late on Saturday, April 17.

The IWU women scored 184 points, behind only the University of Chicago with 201.2. North Central was third (163.2), followed by Wheaton (84), Carthage (58.2), Washington U. (53.2) and Central (34.2).

The Titan men scored 71 points. North Central was the male winner with 243, followed by Central (157), University of Chicago (119), Wheaton (83) and Washington U. (81).

Senior Amanda LaRocca got first place in both the 100 meter dash at 12.25 seconds and the 100 meter hurdles (14.81). She also placed third in the 200 meter dash at 25.02 seconds.

Senior Ali McCoy was also a double winner for the Titans, taking first in the 200 (24.86 seconds) and the 400 (56.98).

Junior Lorin Biosca was the winner of the 1500 meter run with her time of 4:53.93 and both the 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams finished first. The 4x100 team (47.71 seconds) consisted of McCoy and LaRocca, Jessica Christy and Shavantay Thomas while the 4x400 team (4:01.07) was Thomas and Christy, Lauren Alpert and Brooke Bernardoni.

Christy also got fourth in the 400 (58.86) and sixth in the 200 (25.72) while Alpert was third in the 400 (57.68).

Senior Mackenzie Clemens and freshman Tara Clemens were second and third in the 800 with times of 2:15.20 and 2:15.91 and senior Kerry Devitt was second in the 5000 meter run with her time of 17:36.45. Senior Chinny Ekwulugo had a distance of 10.58 meters to place second in the triple jump.

Senior Emily Hagen got second in the high jump, third in the javelin and 10th in the hammer throw while junior Kyla Motz was fifth in the shot put and seventh in the javelin.

The lone IWU men's winner was Darien West, who took first in the hammer throw with a distance of 51.48 meters. West also got sixth in the discus (40.61 meters) and senior Kindred Cook was third in the hammer throw with 46.24 meters.

Sophomore Tyler Saunders got second in the 1500 meter run (3:59.72) and sixth in the 800 meter run (1:57.46) while sophomore Max Lustick was seventh in the 1500 (4:02.62) and ninth in the 800 (1:58.26).

Keith Lehuta was second in the 3000 meter steeplechase, coming in with a time of 9:57.83 and Alex Lambert cleared 4.55 meters to earn a fourth place in the pole vault.

Junior Aaron Ball had a time of 11.46 seconds, good for fifth in the 100 while sophomore Adam Harrison was sixth in the 400 (57.62)and seventh in the 110 meter hurdles (16.42).

Ball and Harrison were joined by Mike Burgess and Ross Munsterman on the fifth place 4x100 relay team (43.38 seconds) and Ball and Burgess teamed with Branden Niehaus and Noah Dunham for a time of 3:27.07 win finishing fifth in the 4x400 relay.
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