March 1, 2008...3:42 pm
USD men’s and women’s track and field teams second after first day of NCC meet
In the final North Central Conference Indoor Track and Field championship meet, the USD Coyotes men’s and women’s teams both find themselves sitting in second place heading into the final day.
The Coyote men, the defending NCC indoor champs, trail MSU-Mankato, who have 75 points compared to USD’s 50 points at the end of the first day.
On the women’s side, Augustana has 57 points while the USD women have 49 points.
The meet starts back up at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Six events are final on the men’s side including the pentathlon in which USD’s Jeff Seagren finished eighth.
Preston Scott won the weight throw with a hurl of 56-feet, 10-inches. Ben Walters was fourth with a throw of 54-feet, 4.5-inches.
Andrew Smith finished second in the pole vault with a personal-best of 15-feet-, 6.5-inches. Tim Rust was sixth at 14-feet, .75-inches.
Josh Olson finished third in the men’s long jump at 22-feet, 7-inches. Two other Coyotes also placed in the long jump with Alex Spielman taking seventh and Quincy Christie eighth.
The USD men’s distance medley relay was second (10:36.34) with a team of Josh Jeffery, Tyler Williamson, Gable Andrews and Robert Gregoire.
The Coyote women’s distance medley relay won the event with a time of 12:15.36. The team included Allison Duba , Stephanie Gebhart, Emma Erickson, and Ramsey Kavan.
Amy Velthoff captured third in the women’s weight throw 51-feet, .25-inches. Danielle Dornbusch was fifth.
Kristen Kritenbrink was third in the women’s high jump (5′01.25) while Jade Jasinski took eighth.
In the women’s long jump, Andrene Miller finished third (17-09.5) with Lindsey House fifth.
Two Coyote women placed in the top-six of the women’s pentathlon. Jasinski was fifth with 2,941 points and Stacy Gould took sixth with 2,882 points.
The main reason why Augustana has the lead thus far is that fact that they scored 25 points in the 5,000-meter run compared to five for USD. The Vikings are the defending NCC cross country champs and their distance runners were well represented in the 5,000 meter race.
For Saturday, look for Nebraska-Omaha, currently in sixth place with 18 points, to move up. The Mavericks have a lot of girls qualified for finals in the preliminaries of the sprint events and will score points today.
On the men’s side, the top two teams are right where they’re expected to be. Dominic Artis and Terry Liggins and both in the finals in several sprint events and look to score major points in those events. Scott Hargens is also in position to score some points for the Coyotes as well.
I don’t really see another team coming up and challenging USD as the final NCC crown should be decided between the Mavericks and Coyotes.
Check back with this blog for more NCC track and field updates.
- - Vance Janak
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