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The Capital University men's and women's track and field teams combined for six all-conference honors at the Ohio Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships in Alliance, Ohio.
The Crusader women placed seventh out of nine teams at the championships, scoring 68 points, 12 behind sixth-place Otterbein. Capital's men totaled 46 points and finished ninth, seven points shy of Muskingum.
Host Mount Union won both the men's and women's team championships.
Five different student-athletes posted All-OAC results for the women's team. Senior Aimee Hall (Amanda, Ohio) placed second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.95, while senior Emma McCarron (Mansfield, Ohio) finished as runner-up in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:23.36.
Senior Emily Sheets (Gahanna, Ohio) earned all-league honors in her second event of the meet. A day after claiming the women's discus title, Sheets placed second in the high jump with a mark of 5-02.25.
Junior Caitlin Prange (Columbus, Ohio) and senior Casey Simmons (Beavercreek, Ohio) earned All-OAC accolades with third-place finishes in their respective events. Prange ran a 59.07 in the 400-meter dash, while Simmons bounded her way to a 1:06.15 in the 400-meter hurdles.
McCarron scored additional points for the Crusaders with a fifth-place mark of 18:41.51. Other point-scorers included Simmons, who finished seventh in the 100-meter hurdles in 15.64, just six-hundredths of a second away from a school record, and senior Sarah Hanson (Hudson, Ohio), who placed sixth in the hammer throw with a toss of 144-01, besting her own school record in the event.
Senior Benjamin Herbert (Bainbridge Township, Ohio) missed a school record by just over a second but finished as the runner-up in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:55.45.
Senior Erik Barenwald (Bainbridge, Ohio) just missed out on his second All-OAC honor of the championships. Barenwald placed fourth in the shot put with a toss of 50-00.75. Classmate Bret Nehrenz (Seville, Ohio) also just fell short, finishing fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:44.39.
Other individual point-scorers for the men included juniors Cory Smith (Bucyrus, Ohio) and Paul Baker (Ashland, Ohio). Smith's mark of 16.05 was good for fifth in the 110-meter hurdles, while Baker registered a sixth-place finish in the shot put at 49-06.25.
Capital is scheduled to compete again Friday at the Ohio Open. Events are slated to begin at 2 p.m. in Athens, Ohio.
