Gators Open NCAC Meet at Multi-Event Competition

Apr 23, 2005

Heptathlon Results
Decathlon Results

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – The first day of decathlon/heptathlon competition of the NCAC Track and Field championship were held Saturday and the highlight of day one is junior Laura Schuh (Orchard Park, N.Y./ Hamburg) sitting in third place overall in the heptathlon.

Ohio Wesleyan’s Erika Newell leads the overall competition with 2,162 points, just one point more than Julie Feather-Faber of Hiram. Schuh is within striking distance of the leaders, as she totaled 2,079 points. Other Gators competing in the seven-event competition is senior Erika Almquist (Lexington, Mass.), who is fifth with 1,969 points, and sophomore Heather Knupp (Canonsburg, Pa./ Canon-McMillan), who is sixth with 1,817 points.

Schuh opened the day by winning the 100 hurdles with a time of 17.00 seconds. She then tied for second place with Feather-Faber in the high jump after clearing 4-11.75. The AC junior was knocked out of first place after the next two events, when she was sixth in the shot put (24-10.5) and fifth in the 200 (29.6).

The heptathlon will conclude Sunday with the long jump, javelin and 800-meter run.

On the men’s side in the decathlon, junior Sean Laird (Monroeville, Pa./ Gateway) is the top Gator in the standings after day one with a seventh place standing. Wittenberg’s Joe Rumschlag is in first place by a comfortable 286 points after scoring 3,337 points on the first day. Laird is seventh with 2,281, freshman Ryan Lawrence (Union City, Pa.) is ninth with 2,191 and sophomore Chris DiVietro (Wenonah, N.J./ Bishop Eustace) is in 10th with 2,069 points.

Laird had two solid finishes in events Saturday, as he tied with Rumschlag for first in the high jump (5-9.25) and was second behind the Wittenberg senior in the long jump (20-7).

The 10-event competition will wrap up tomorrow with the 110 hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500-meter run.

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