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Tristan Jordan and Jon Mathis won the triple jump and high jump, respectively, at the 24th annual North Coast Athletic Conference Track & Field Championships, held Thursday and Friday in Delaware, Ohio, as they led The College of Wooster’s men’s team to a fifth-place finish out of 10, and the Fighting Scot women used a well-balanced effort for fourth-place among a field of nine squads.

Jordan’s and Mathis’ performances, combined with a runner-up finish by teammate Eric Dyer in the triple jump, accounted for more than half of Wooster’s 59 points, which was just enough to edge out rival Wittenberg University (56.5) for a spot in the top half of the conference. Ohio Wesleyan University, the host school, won the team championship going away with 236 points, ending the reign of five-time defending champ Allegheny College (150). Wabash College was a close third (148.50), followed by Oberlin College (74), the Scots, and the remaining five schools.

After three previous runner-up finishes in his career at NCAC events, Jordan, a senior, emerged as a conference champion for the first time while setting a school record on Friday. His mark of 46 feet, 11 inches in the triple jump was 1.5 inches better than Dyer’s record-setting effort from just last week. Prior to that, the Wooster record of 46 feet, 5 inches, set by King Lewis, had stood for 32 years.

Dyer was not far behind Jordan, reaching 46 feet, 6.25 inches. The duo will both likely qualify for the NCAA Div. III Championships, as their marks currently rank among the top-12 in the nation this season.

In the high jump, Mathis cleared 6 feet, 2.75 inches, more than an inch above his nearest competition (6 feet, 1.5 inches), to garner his first career NCAC title.

While Wooster’s women’s team did not have any individual winners, it combined for four all-NCAC (top-three) performances and several other scorers. That all added up to 86 points, as the Scots matched their fourth-place finish from a year ago, despite having lost an All-American distance runner to graduation. Allegheny won the team championship with 268 points, easing past Ohio Wesleyan (199), Oberlin (134), and Wooster, while the other five all compiled 50 points or less.

Katie Dale and Ali Drushal earned runner-up honors in field events, KateLynn Riley raced her way to second-place on the track, and Kayla Miller came as high as third while scoring in three jumping events. Dale’s second career all-NCAC effort came in the shot put (37 feet, 8.5 inches) and Drushal’s javelin throw of 114 feet, 2 inches gave her all-NCAC certificate No. 7 of her track career. Riley recorded the second-fastest time of the 100-meter hurdles in the preliminaries (16.44) and stayed in that position while lowering her time in the finals (16.12), and Miller’s top performance came in the triple jump (34 feet, 7.5 inches).

Shifting back to the men, several others Scots produced points via top-eight finishes. Mark DeWine just missed out on all-conference recognition, running to fourth-place in the 10,000 meters (33:26.99), while teammate Terry Workman was sixth in that event (33:36.28). Another narrowly missing all-NCAC was Steven Zumbrun, who jumped from sixth in the prelims to fourth in the finals of the shot put (45 feet, 9.25 inches), and also in the throws, Mathis finished in sixth-place in the discus (128 feet, 11 inches) and Josh Kime took eighth in the shot put (42 feet, 9 inches).

In the long jump, Jordan led a three-man Wooster contingent, garnering sixth (21 feet, 0.5 inches), followed by Averell Gatton in seventh (20 feet, 9.25 inches) and Dyer in eighth (19 feet, 9.5 inches). Gatton also was seventh in the high jump (6 feet, 0.5 inches) and Robert McConnell contributed an eighth-place effort in the pole vault (12 feet, 9 inches).

On the women’s side, there were a number of multi-event scorers. Dale added a fourth-place mark in the hammer throw, resetting her own school record in the process at 114 feet, 5 inches, and she was seventh in the discus (102 feet, 6 inches). The versatile Drushal finished fifth in both the pole vault (9 feet, 5.75 inches) and the 400-meter hurdles (1:09.90), while Miller complemented her all-NCAC triple jump by taking sixth in the long jump (15 feet, 7.75 inches) and seventh in the high jump (4 feet, 10.25 inches).

Additionally, Riley placed fifth overall in the triple jump (100 feet, 3 inches), distance specialist Suzanne Capehart ran her way to sixth in both the 1500 meters (5:01.26) and the 5000 meters (19:17.33), long sprinter Emily Wilmers crossed sixth in both the 200 meters (27.91) and 400 meters (1:02.99), Elizabeth Wardrop notched sixth in the triple jump (32 feet, 0.75 inches) and eighth in the high jump (4 feet, 10.25 inches), Sara Wiswell was seventh in the pole vault (8 feet, 11.75 inches), and Miriam Wise rounded out the Scots’ scoring via an eighth-place finish in the long jump (15 feet, 5 inches).