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Day Three
Note: Results will be posted following the official
protest period (30 minutes) after each event. Click on the link on the left for
results. RECORD
BOOK ONSLAUGHT CONTINUES DESPITE RAIN; WISCONSIN-LACROSSE, WHEATON, MA. EARN TEAM
TITLES AGAIN The University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse came
from three points down in the team race to win going away for its third straight
NCAA Division III Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship in the final day
of competition at St. Lawrence University's Merrick-Pinkard Track and Field complex
on a damp Saturday. Wheaton College of Massachusetts matched Wisconsin-LaCrosse
in winning its third straight women's championship, sprinting to the championship
after entering Saturday's competition in 29th place with four points. Wisconsin-LaCrosse
won the men's title with 88 points with Lincoln University second with 64 and
Wisconsin-Oshkosh third with 44. Wheaton scored 68 points on Saturday to win the
women's title with 72 points with Lehman College second with 52 and Wisconsin-LaCrosse
third with 34. Both the Wisconsin-LaCrosse men and Wheaton women completed a second
straight sweep of NCAA Division III track titles as both were also 2003 indoor
team champions. Even a steady rain couldn't stop the assault
on the NCAA Division III men's and women's track and field championship record
book during Saturday's final day of competition. A total of ten NCAA Division
III meet records were set in the 2003 meet, six more than any other Division III
championship meet ever. Defending champion Missy Buttry ran
away from the field and the Wartburg College sophomore won her second straight
NCAA 1500 meter championship, breaking a 16-year-old NCAA meet record and Division
III all-time mark with a time of 4:20.86, nearly seven seconds faster than the
previous record set by Cresey Stewart of Occidental in 1987. Buttry came back
later in the day and erased the 20-year-old meet and all-time Division III record
in the 5000 meters winning by nearly a full minute with a time of 15:51.33 and
knocking 15 seconds off the record set in 1983. The meet and
all-time Division III record in the men's 400 meters also fell on Saturday as
Wisconsin-LaCrosse junior Andrew Rock clipped .61 seconds off the record which
was set in 1992 with a 45.29 clocking. Rock came back later in the day to win
his second title of the meet with a 21.07 clocking in the 200 meter dash. The
third NCAA meet record to fall and the ninth of the 2003 meet came in the women's
800 meters as Wisconsin-Oshkosh junior Liz Woodworth defended her title with a
win in 2:07.39. The men's 4x100 relay team from Nebraska
Wesleyan of Jeff Aldrich, Josh Becker, Tim Beckmann and Bret Blake ran 40.56 seconds
in the first race of the day, improving the track record set by Rowan University
in the trials. Carthage College won the women's 4x100 relay in a track record
46.55 seconds with a team of Caretha Carroll, Sheana Grigsby, Latrice Powell and
Muffy Israel. Willamette freshman Nick Symmonds outkicked
Trinity (CT) senior Ryan Bak to win the men's 1500 title in a track record and
Division III season's best 3:46.66, winning by .09 seconds. Symmonds came back
just over a half hour later to complete an impressive double, outkicking defending
champion Matt Groose of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in the final 50 meters to win in 1:49.5.
Healy Thompson of Williams won the women's shot put with a 15.18 meter (49-9.75)
throw to establish a new facility mark in that event. Thompson earned All America
honors in the shot for the eighth time in her four year career, four times indoors
and four outdoors. Freshman Kim Deprez of SUNY Geneseo was the other women's field
event champion on Saturday. Deprez was one of four athletes who cleared 1.67 meters
(5-5.75) in the high jump and won the title on fewest attempts. Chaz
Clemons of Lincoln won his fourth straight Division III 100 meter dash championship
with a win in 10.71 seconds. Senior Brandon Tedrow of LaVerne
captured the 2003 championship in the men's javelin throw with a mark of 60.31
meters (197-10) while senior Justin Jarmon of Lincoln set a facility record in
winning the triple jump with a 14.89 meter (48-10.25) series. Sophomore Cody Brotherton
is the 2003 champion in the men's shot with a thorw of 17.84 meters (58-6.5). In
the men's 110 hurdles, junior Skip Ivey of Wittenburg nipped Derek Toshner of
Wisconsin-LaCrosse at the tape to win the championship in 14.63 seconds with Toshner
second in 14.65. Toshner came back to win the 400 hurdle championship in 50.81
seconds. Senior Paulette Baldwin of Lehman won the championship in the women's
100 hurdles in 14.43 seconds and Tierra Hicks of Montclair State was the champion
in the women's 400 hurdles in 59.22 seconds. Wheaton (MA)
junior Amber James won her third straight NCAA championship in the 400 meter dash,
setting the track record with a win in 54.25 seconds, the best in Division III
this season. She came back later in the day for the title in the 200 meters as
well, winning in 24.60 seconds. Teammate Vernick Smith added the championship
in the 100 meters with a winning time of 12.02 seconds as Wheaton sprinted into
the women's team race lead. Senior Nick Ricco of the College
of New Jersey won the 2003 championship in the men's 5000 meters in 14.23.47. Wisconsin-LaCrosse
put the lid on its team victory with a win in the 4x400 relay, holding off a charging
Lincoln University team at the wire. The Wisconsin-LaCrosse team of Nate Olson,
Eric Schmidt, Dan Haumschild and Kris Smith won in 3:11.08 with Lincoln second
in 3:11.11. Wheaton also finished off its team title with a win in the 4x400 as
the team of Tessa Donoghue, Vernick Smith, Jana Bromell and Amber James ran 3:43.32
to win by over three seconds. |