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COLUMBUS – The Capital University men's track and field team placed second while the women's team placed third Saturday at the Ohio Athletic Conference South Split Meet at the Capital Center.
The Crusader men placed second with 131 points, just 4.5 points behind first-place Marietta and more than 20 points ahead of third-place Wilmington. The Capital women totaled 112 points, 13.5 behind runner-up Marietta. Otterbein was the team champion on the women's side with 165.5 points.
Sophomore Travon Bodrick (New Albany, Ohio) won three individual relay events and placed second in two other individual events to lead the men. He tied a school record and tied for first place in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.17. Bodrick also won the long jump
(21-05.50) and the 4x200-meter relay (1:31.85) along with freshman Austin Noel (Salem, Ohio), senior Joshua Woods (Marysville, Ohio) and freshman Brennen Hennings (Gilbert, Ariz.).
Junior Michael Beurer (Whitmore Lake, Mich.; at right) also set a school record Saturday, placing third in the weight throw with a toss of 50-02.00.
Woods and Bodrick finished 1-2 in the triple jump with marks of 43-05.75 and 42-02.00, respectively. Freshman Ed Wigton (Lucas, Ohio) won the 1-mile run with a time of 4:42.48. Senior Erik Barenwald (Bainbridge, Ohio) also scored a top-two finish with a mark of 47-06.50 in the shot put, good for second place. Junior Paul Baker (Ashland, Ohio) finished just behind Barenwald in the event with a 46-11.00.
The women's team took home first place in three relays and a pair of individual events. The foursome of junior Jessi Knoll (Willard, Ohio), senior Aimee Hall (Amanda, Ohio), freshman Belky Nunez (Houston, Texas) and senior Emma McCarron (Mansfield, Ohio) won the distance medley relay with a time of 13:06.43. Hall teamed with junior Caitlin Prange (Columbus, Ohio), sophomore Sam Wentz (Haddon Heights, N.J.) and senior Casey Simmons (Beavercreek, Ohio) to win the 4x200-meter relay in 1:54.09. Prange, Knoll, Simmons and Hall combined to also place first in the 4x400 relay with a mark of 4:12.82.
Simmons won the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:04.45, just ahead of Hall (at left), who finished as runner-up in 1:05.02. Knoll took home first place honors in the 1-mile run with a mark of 5:49.13.
Prange took second in the 60-meter dash with a time of 8.15, while Hall was the runner-up in the 200-meter dash (27.75). Senior Sarah Hanson (Hudson, Ohio) was second in the weight throw with a toss of 43-03.75.
The Crusaders return to action next Saturday at the Joe Banks Invitational at Ohio Northern. Meet time is scheduled for 11 a.m. in Ada, Ohio.
