Outdoor Track and Field Weekly Release
4/8/2013 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
Bulls See Action at Three Venues
The University at Buffalo's track and field teams raced at three separate venues over the weekend. UB sent about 20 of its top athletes to the Florida Relays in Gainesville and its distance specialists to the Sam Howell Invitational at Princeton University. The remainder of the squad competed at the University of Rochester Invitational. There was no team scoring in the Florida or Princeton meets, however at Rochester, the Bulls placed second in the women's and fourth in the men's standings.
Throwers Finish Atop Standings in Florida
In Gainesville, the Bulls won championships in the men's and women's hammer competitions and posted top six finishes in four other throwing events. Evan Palmer and Erin Miller won the men's and women's hammer throws, respectively, with each posting new season-best marks. Palmer won the men's event with a throw of 197-2 (60.10m) on his first attempt of the competition. He was only thrower to toss better than 60 meters and added more than five feet to his top mark. Palmer also turned in a seventh-place finish in the men's discus at 165-3 (50.37m). Miller took the women's open hammer competition with a season-best mark of 188-10 (57.55m) while Kristy Woods placed eighth at 169-5 (51.64m). In the invitational hammer event, Shante' White scored a second-place finish with a season-best performance of 190-10 (59.38m) as she tacked an additional foot to her top mark. Rachel Roberts also had a second-place finish in the women's shot put. Roberts turned in a top throw of 47-5.75 (14.47m) while Miller placed fifth at 46-3.25 (14.10m). Jonathan Jones finished third in the invitational field of the men's shot put. Jones added a half-inch onto his season-best throw with a top toss of 62-2.25 (18.95m). He was the top collegiate athlete in the field as he finished behind a pair of unattached entrants. In the men's javelin, Jacob Sunday finished fourth at 213-3 (65.00m) while Casey Garbaty added more than three feet to his season best with a throw of 204-2 (62.24m) to finish sixth.
Women's Distance Runners Set Records at Princeton
At the Princeton meet, the UB women established a pair of school records. Kara Patrick broke Jenny Koeppel's 2005 mark in the 10,000-meters as she finished second overall in 35:04.57 shaving nearly 30 seconds off the old mark. Katie Sanders set a new mark in the 3,000-meter steeplechase finishing ninth in 10:44.76 to break Ellen Muster's 2010 record of 11:01.11.
Bulls Take 13 Events in Rochester
In Rochester, the UB women won eight events while the UB men took five. Freshman Taylor Woods won a pair of throwing events as she took the shot put at 41-0.50 (12.51m) and the discus throw at 126-10 (38.66m). Freshman, Gina Carnovale, won the women's 200-meters in 26.38 seconds with freshman Tiffany Vera placing second in 26.55 seconds. Kyla Kenyon won the women's 400-meters in 59.05 seconds. Freshman Sabrina Bush took the women's 100-meter hurdles in 15.29 seconds with Kristina Arcury third in 15.60 seconds. Freshman Kaitlin McCadden won the women's 5,000-meters in 18:05.61. The UB women also swept the relays. Asher Beasley, Vera, Carnovale and Arcury combined to win the 4x100-meter relay in 50.22 seconds. Carnovale, Donna Jeanty, Uwa Omorogbe and Vera combined to take the 4x400-meter relay in 3:59.07. For the UB men, freshman Brian Cummiskey took the 200-meters in 22.39 seconds with Tyler Scheving finishing first in the men's 400-meters in 50.07 seconds. Jacob Wray took the men's 110-meter hurdles in 14.62 seconds. Adam Hume won the men's pole vault at 14-10 (4.52m). UB's 4x400-meter relay team of Cummiskey, Charlie Bascom, Jacques Garcia and Doug Hannon were also victorious in 3:23.38.
