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Outdoor Track and Field

Baldwin-Wallace College Women Win Title, Men Third at Muskingum Invitational in New Concord

BEREA, OHIO — The Baldwin-Wallace College women’s outdoor track and field team placed first of 10 schools and the men placed third of seven schools at the annual Muskingum College Invitational Meet on the Johnson Family Track in New Concord. This was the second outdoor meet of the spring for the Yellow Jackets and their first scored meet of the outdoor season.

The B-W women (9-0 overall) scored 163 points to top second place Ohio Wesleyan University by 40 points. The Yellow Jacket women also had six individual champions and one relay champion. The men (4-2 overall) scored 92 points and had three individual champions.

For the women, the individual winners were freshman Samantha Robinson (Mount Orab/ Southwest Brown) won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:46.05, senior Kristen Balogh (Loveland) won the 1500-meter run in 5:04.57, junior Jordan Hill (Carrollton) won the 100 meter dash in 13.54 seconds, senior Courtney Smith (Mayfield) won the 400-meter low hurdles in 1:11.05, freshman Kim Chinn (Zanesville/ West Muskingum) won the 5,000-meter run in 18:33.21 and senior Megan Cathcart (Parma/ Senior) won the triple jump with a leap of 32-feet and four and three-quarter inches.

In addition, B-W had one-two finishes in the 1500 meters, 400 hurdles and 5000 meters. Following Balogh and in second place in the 1500 meters was sophomore Brittany Giesken (Ottawa/ Ottawa-Glandorf) in 5:07.84. In the 400 hurdles and in second place behind Smith was freshman Emily Oliver (Waynesburg/ Sandy Valley) in 1:11.10. In the 5000 meters and in second place was freshman Karin Coyne (Columbia Station/ Columbia) in 18:54.30.

For the men, sophomore Steve Price (North Olmsted) won the high jump with a leap of 6’2”, sophomore Greg Patrick (Collins/ Western Reserve) won the shot put with a throw of 46’0.25” and freshman Matt Kromer (Parma/ Senior) won the discus with a throw of 132’5”.

The Yellow Jacket men and women will next compete on Saturday, March 29 when they travel to Marietta, Ohio to compete at the Ohio Athletic Conference East Meet at Don Drumm Stadium at 1:00 p.m.

FOR MORE INFORMATION , please contact B-W Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327, by FAX machine at 440-826-2329 or via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu .To contact Head Coach Bill Taraschke, please call 440-826-3322 or e-mail at wtarasch@bw.edu . You can get all of the latest B-W athletics information by visiting our Web site at www.bw.edu/athletics.