Outdoor Track & Field Continues at Unscored Oberlin Meet

OBERLIN - The College of Wooster track and field teams continued their outdoor season at the two-day, unscored Bob Kahn invitational hosted by Oberlin College on the Kahn Track & Shults Field.

Wooster had five podium finishes with four coming on the track and one in the field. The Scots' lone event champion of the meet was senior Elise Greenwald who competed in her first-ever collegiate 10,000-meter run on Friday. The senior won in a time of 39:19.79 beating fellow senior and runner-up Dylan Kretchmar who posted a time of 41:46.36. 

A trio of seniors in Amelia Mitchell, Igna Mendez and Cam Ray posted career-best efforts across the board. Mendez went 2:20.78 in the 800-meter run to place fourth, narrowly missing out on the podium.

Mitchell placed third in the high jump with her best mark of 4 feet, 11.75 inches while Ray took third in the 400-meter dash with a top collegiate time of 50.92 seconds. Mitchell also placed sixth in both the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes in 13.25 seconds and a career-best 26.60 seconds, respectively.

Ray also ran in the men's 200 and turned in another career best of 23.23 seconds. Senior Emily Munson was the fifth and final Scot to land on the podium with a third-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:19.14. 

Other notable individual track finishes were in the men's 400 hurdles and the women's 100. First-year Emeili Tarpy went a career-best 13.50 to finish eighth in the 100 while Jake George finished the 400 hurdles in 59.37 seconds. 

In relay action, the quad of sophomore Will Harris II, senior Liam Regan, sophomore Cooper Norwell and junior Khaleel Manderson posted the best 4x100-meter relay time of the season at 43.21 seconds to finish fourth. Sophomore Cam Sentieri, George, Norwell and Ray combined for a sixth-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay in 3:35.82. 

The Scots performed well across all field events inclulding jumps and throws. Junior Anaya Brady tied for fifth in the high jump clearing a height of 4 feet, 4 inches. On the men's side, sophomore Zephan Deal placed seventh in the same event with a mark of 5 feet, 7 inches.

In pole vault, first-year Gracyn Zerby recorded her first collegiate height with a mark of 7 feet, 6.5 inches to place eighth while sophomore Aaron Denis placed seventh with a height of 11 feet.

Junior Rob Mays III had a consistent day across his throwing events, highlighted by a fifth-place finish in shot put with a mark of 44 feet, 10.5 inches. Mays also went for sixth in discus throw (131 feet, 9 inches) and eighth in hammer throw (136 feet, 1 inch).

Senior Vell Robinson finished eighth in the javelin throw with his longest mark being 117 feet, 8 inches. 

Wooster hosts its lone outdoor meet of the season - the annual two-day Wooster Invitational - beginning April 4.