Wooster's Taylor Morgan (back) and Stephanie McShane (front) execute the baton exchange en route to fourth-place in the 4x100 relay.

The College of Wooster's men's and women's track and field teams turned in top-three efforts, with the women earning runner-up status and the men taking third-place, during Friday's historic meet at Carl Munson Track, which saw the recently renovated surface lit up as this year's Wooster Invitational became the first home night track meet in school history. The Fighting Scots lined up against a challenging seven-team field of competitors, featuring two NCAA Div. II institutions as well as two fellow North Coast Athletic Conference schools.

Wooster's women's squad, keyed by wins from distance runner Meredith Shaul, the 4x400 relay team, and high jumper Abena Boamah-Acheampong, totaled 142 points, only finishing behind Div. II Edinboro University (224) while well ahead of NCAC foes Kenyon College (98) and Denison University (47).

Shaul coasted to a 50-second victory over 10 other competitors in the 5000 meters with a time of 18:36.14, and teammate Colleen O'Neil added a fourth-place showing (20:05.99). Also on the track, the Scots' 1600-meter relay of Kelsie Herring, Taylor Morgan, Jean Quenneville, and Whitney Rappole combined for a victory with a 4:18.55 time, 2.37 seconds ahead of the next team. They stood out individually as well, with Rappole crossing second in the 400 hurdles (1:09.95), Herring garnering third in the 800 meters (2:27.71), and Morgan and Quenneville slotting fourth (1:03.88) and fifth (1:04.34), respectively, in the 400 meters.

Boamah-Acheampong headlined a small group of high jumpers with a clearance of 5 feet, 1.75 inches, while Miriam Wise paced Wooster's other jumpers with a third in the triple jump (32 feet, 8.5 inches) and a fourth in the long jump (15 feet, 8.75 inches). In the throwing events, Katharina Kroll earned second in the javelin (115 feet, 9 inches) and Veronique Jones was fifth in the discus (87 feet, 9 inches), and other notables included Erin Plews-Ogan coming in second in the steeplechase (11:54.95) and Tricia Hall's fourth place in the pole vault (8 feet, 6.25 inches).

In the men's competition, the Scots accumulated 114 points, edging Kenyon (110) and three others and only losing to Westminster College (182) and Edinboro (144), as the hosts achieved three runner-up showings. Ethan Deselem sprinted to second in the 100 meters with a time of 11.42, Quinton Howard notched 5 feet, 10 inches for that position in the high jump, and Josh Kime tossed the shot put 43 feet, 3.25 inches for the second-best mark among 17 competitors.

Deselem had a bit of a breakout meet with a third-place in the 200 meters (23.14) as well, and also noteworthy on the track, Micah Caunter earned fourth in the 800 meters (2:00.41), Kevin DeGroot and Luke Hutchings-Goetz went 4-5 in that order in the 5000 with times of 16:12.75 and 16:26.56, and Morgan Clark and Stephen Ferguson both placed fifth in the steeplechase (11:01.81) and 400 hurdles (1:04.06), respectively.

In addition to Kime's field performance, Sean Twining offered a third-place triple jump (36 feet, 9 inches) and a fifth-place javelin (145 feet, 10 inches) to pace Wooster in those categories, and pole vaulters David Brew and Jay Marshall tied for fourth (11 feet, 11.75 inches).

Next for the Scots, they'll travel to the University of Mount Union's John Homon Open on Saturday.