Jay Marshall

Veronique Jones

For the second week in a row, a school record was broken by a student-athlete on The College of Wooster's track and field team, as Veronique Jones surpassed her own mark in the weight throw to help lead the women to a second-place finish at its own Fighting Scots Invitational on Saturday at the Scot Center. The men finished fourth.

The Scots were joined by Baldwin-Wallace College, whom won the women's competition with 184 points, and North Coast Athletic Conference foes Denison University, Kenyon College, and the winners of the men's competition Wittenberg University (144). Wooster's men and women scored 110 and 149 points, respectively.

Jones highlighted the women's results by placing second among a field of 14 in the weight throw with a distance of 40 feet, 8.25 inches, which was almost three feet further than her previous best throw of 37 feet, 9.5 inches.

In other field events, last week's record-breaker Abena Boamah-Acheampong won the high jump in a jump off by clearing the bar at 5 feet, 5.75 inches, and she also took second in the triple jump (32 feet, 4.75 inches). Ellen Sandin was also strong in her signature event, as she scored second-place points in the long jump at 15 feet, 11.5 inches.

On the track, the women got a 1-2 finish out of Amy French and Hilary Coady in the 60 meter hurdles, as the teammates crossed the finish line in 9.83 seconds and 9.88 seconds, respectively. Also noteworthy, Lauren Buyan was second in the one mile run (5:29.08), Taylor Morgan was third in the 800 meter run (2:29.50), as was Erin Andrews-Sharer in the 3000 meter run (11:19.27), and in the 4x400 meter relay the team of the Ashley Huddson, Chelsea Denlinger, Buyan, and Morgan placed second in 4:17.49.

Like French and Coady on the women's side, the men had their own duo place first and second in the same event, as Jay Marshall and David Brew went 1-2 in the pole vault with matching results of 12 feet, 5.5 inches. Brew also notched a victory in the 800 meter run in a time of 2:00.61.

Rounding out the men's results, Matt Margida was solid in the throwing events, as he took second in the shot put (44 feet, 2.75 inches) and fourth in the weight throw (37 feet, 1.25 inches), while Morgan Clark crossed the finish line third in the 3000 meter run (9:11.19).

Next Saturday the Scots will compete at the All-Ohio Championships in Westerville, Ohio.