April 13, 2002
Columbia, Mo. - Junior Russ Bell had a hat trick of sorts Saturday during the Sixth Annual Tom Botts Invitational at Audrey J. Walton Stadium.
Bell had provisional qualifying marks in all three of his events Saturday. He won both the hammer with his career-best throw of 209-1 and the discus (182-10), and the Jefferson City, Mo., native was also second in the shot put (64-4).
Bell and Notre Dame's Ayesha Boyd were named the male and female athletes of the meet. Boyd won the women's 100m (11.73) and 200m (23.84) dashes for Notre Dame. Missouri won on the women's side with 201 points and came in second for the men with 190.50 points. Notre Dame won the men's meet with 213.50 points.
Another big highlight for the Missouri men was freshman Jesse Sims' provisional mark in the high jump. Sims had his personal-best jump, clearing a height of 7-2.5 to win the event.
Timothy Dunne won the men's 800m in a time of 1:49.49 and freshman Neville Miller took third in his personal best time of 1:52.40.
In her outdoor season debut, senior Ann Marie Brooks won the women's 1500m run with her time of 4:25.55 in the event. The provisional qualifying time in the event is 4:24.00.
Freshmen Lesley Smith and Jill Petersen took the top two spots in the women's steeplechase - Smith ran in 11:07.45 with Petersen coming in at 11:14.16.
Other winners from Tom Botts were Christian Cantwell with his third automatic-qualifying mark in the shot put (64-4), Kimberly Moore in the women's 5000m (17:35.44), Holly Scherder in the women's hammer throw (166-10) and Knut Sommerfeldt in the men's javelin (204-2).
The Tigers will go on the road again next weekend as they travel to the Kansas Relays April 18-20.