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Scots Up School Record, Win Four Events at OWU Twilight Meet

Christine Weber
Senior Christine Weber upped her school record in the hammer throw to 130 feet, 2 inches. Photo by Matt Dilyard.

Junior Maya Vasta was a double-winner for The College of Wooster track and field team, while senior Christine Weber upped her school record in the hammer throw to 130 feet, 2 inches at Thursday's Ohio Wesleyan University Twilight Meet, which was held at historic Selby Stadium in Delaware, Ohio.

Vasta emerged as the fastest sprinter on the women's side for the third straight week by winning the 100-meter dash. On Thursday, the statistical and data sciences major crossed at a collegiate-best 13.13, a time currently fourth within the North Coast Athletic Conference. Vasta led off Wooster's winning 4x400 relay, where first-year Amelia Carmack, junior Claudia Partridge, and first-year Athena Tharenos followed Vasta's leadoff leg en route to a time of 4:34.34. Vasta added a second-place time of 27.17 in the 200 meters.

Other top-two finishes on the women's side came from sophomore Haley Bloom in the 400 meters (second, 1:02.64),  junior Isabelle Hoover in the 5,000 meters (second, 18:18.73), first-year Mary Sirois in the 400-meter hurdles (second, 1:13.51), and Tharenos in the mile (second, 5:28.01).

Weber, who set the school record in the hammer throw at Denison University's Quad Meet, eclipsed the 130-foot mark on her second throw in the finals.

The men's high jump emerged as Wooster's signature event of the meet. There, junior Richie Pajak took home top billing after clearing 6 feet, 1.25 inches, while sophomore Luke Henke's mark of 5 feet, 10 inches was the runner-up clearance. First-year Dylan Garretson remained undefeated in the pole vault. The rookie sensation topped out at 14 feet, 5.25 inches on Thursday.

Junior Kristian Coleman scored a trio of runner-up finishes. In the jumps, the Scots' computer science major took second in the long and triple jumps with marks of 20 feet, 2.25 inches and 40 feet, 5.5 inches, respectively. Coleman ran leg two of Wooster's runner-up 4x100 relay, which clocked in at 45.02. Junior Nick Scherson led off the relay, while junior Troy Baughman and senior Mark Herron took over after Coleman's leg.

Sophomore Joe Shilts rounded out the runner-up showings with a time of 57.98 in the 400-meter hurdles.

Ohio Wesleyan won the meet with 66 men's points and 75 women's points. Denison University was next with 58.5 points on the men's side and 42 on the women's. Wooster, with 32 men's points and 30 women's points was third, while Wittenberg University rounded out the field.

Next, Wooster's at Allegheny College for a dual meet on Friday, April 23.