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| Chris Carsten |
Not only was the weather splendid at Allgood-Bailey Stadium on Saturday -- so was the Miner track and field team in its home invitational.
UMR competitors won 10 events, hit or improved on four provisional qualifying marks and saw several seasonal and personal bests fall by the wayside in the third annual Dewey Allgood Invitational.
Peter Hollenbeck and Jared Anders both surpassed the NCAA DIvision II qualifying mark in the pole vault as they finished 1-2 in the event. Hollenbeck won the event with a clearance of 16-1 1/4, the best by a Miner this season, while Anders went over the bar at 15-9 1/4.
Jamel Sims made an provisional qualifying mark with his winning effort in the 110-meter hurdles of 14.54 seconds. Sims later took second in the 400-meter hurdles with a mark of 54.33 seconds.
Chris Carsten improved on his qualifying mark in the shot put and broke the school record in the event with a throw of 54-1 1/4; the mark was good for second behind Lindenwood's Kelley Jackson who threw 57-11 1/4. Carsten also had second as well in the hammer throw with a mark of 166-3.
Charles Melton took first in the 100-meters with a time of 10.66 seconds, his best mark of the season and just a hair off the NCAA provisional qualifying mark, then completed a double later in the day by taking first in the 200-meters in 21.89 seconds.
Other winners included Matt Osmond in the 800-meters in 1:55.57, Thomas Green in the 1,500-meters in 4:03.88, Joffroi Holcombe in the 5,000-meters in 15:27.30, Andrew Ropp in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:54.21 and Kal-El Waters-Jones in the long jump with a mark of 21-10 3/4.
Another winning performance on the day came from Heath Groom, an All-America performer for the Miners in the javelin. He won that event with a throw of 183-10 while competing Saturday as an unattached competitor.
The Miners' 4x100-meter relay team was also victorious with a seasonal-best time of 42.17 seconds.
Ian Packard had a time of 48.50 seconds in the 400-meters to finish second, while Anders and Jarryd Dean tied for second in the long jump at 21-5 1/4. Waters-Jones was the runner-up in the triple jump with a leap of 45-0 1/4, while Nick Windhorst cleared 6-1 1/2 in the high jump to take second and Matt Morrow recorded his best mark of the season in the discus of 140-7.
Ryan Vessell had a third place showing in the 100-meters with a time of 10.92, a personal best for him, while Paul Roland was third in the 800 in 1:56.92 as was Michael Knickerbocker in the 1,500-meters in 4:20.26 and Matt Bartels in the 400-hurdles in 54.79 seconds.
In the field events, Jordan Henry was third in the pole vault at 15-3 1/2, Jeff Pike took third in the triple jump at 44-4 1/4 and Wes Everhart had a third in the javelin with a throw of 153-8.
Packard was fourth in the 200-meters in 22.38 seconds along with Kurt Schauwecker in the steeplechase in 10:15.13, Logan MacCash in the pole vault at 13-3 3/4 and Dean in the triple jump at 44-0 1/2. Chris Teel placed fifth in the 800-meters in 2:02.27, just ahead of Ropp's mark of 2:02.31. Phillip Shields was fifth in the discus with a mark of 129-2 as was Morrow in the hammer at 116-11.
Vessell placed sixth in the 200-meters in 22.46 seconds as did Kyle Williams in the 110-meter hurdles in 16.25 seconds, Brandon Marchegiani in the 400-hurdles in 58.49 seconds and Carsten in the discus at 127-5.
UMR's 4x400-meter relay team placed second to Truman State with a time of 3:24.32.
The Miners will send a group of competitors to next week's Drake Relays, the final competition prior to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships May 4 and 5 at SIU Edwardsville.
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