Skip Ivery
The Wittenberg University men's and women's track and field
teams competed well against a strong field at the DePauw Tiger
Indoor Invitational over the weekend, taking 14th place in the
22-team men's field and 13th place in the 16-team women's
field.
Highlighting things, as he does pretty much every week, was senior
Skip Ivery (Columbus, Ohio/Groveport-Madison).
Ivery captured first place in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of
7.73, which was .01 better than the NCAA provisional qualifying
time. Sophomore Matt Locke (South Charleston,
Ohio/Southeastern) added a fourth-place finish in the
55-meter hurdles in a strong time of 8.01.
Also scoring for the Tigers were the 4x200-meter relay foursome of
junior Jason Toman (Greenville, Ohio/Greenville),
freshman Gregg Carter (Wellsville,
Ohio/Wellsville), junior Joe Rumschlag (Maumee,
Ohio/Toledo Christian) and sophomore David Bazzel
(Tipp City, Ohio/Tippecanoe), which finished seventh, and
the 4x400-meter relay quartet of Locke, Toman, Rumschlag and senior
Alex Yurovitsky (Richmond Heights, Ohio/Lyndhurst
Brush), which also placed seventh.
On the women's side, two individuals scored top-eight finishes and
the 4x400-meter relay also earned team points.
Sophomore Anna Finkelstein (Whitehall,
Mich./Reeths-Puffer) placed eighth in the 800 meters.
Senior Kelly Zilli (Dayton, Ohio/Kettering Alter)
took fourth in the 600 meters. And Zilli and Finkelstein teamed
with freshman Jessica McClish (Shelby,
Ohio/Shelby) and sophomore Rebecca Stewart
(Knoxville, Tenn./The Webb School) to take sixth
place.
Next up is a busy weekend with a Friday meet at Capital and a
Saturday event at Ohio Northern. The latter is the annual All-Ohio
Championships, an event that always attracts most of the top teams
in the state.