Jan. 23, 2004
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The University of Missouri track and field team finished third at the 15th annual Missouri-Kansas-Kansas State Triangular on Friday night. Team scores were combined from both men's and women's totals. The Missouri men took second behind Kansas State by six-and-a-half points. Three Tigers hit NCAA provisional marks, two for the first time this season and many personal bests were had at the meet.
Sophomore Amanda Bales (Bettendorf, Iowa) won the women's mile race in a time of 4:48.76, to beat the provisional qualifying mark by 24 hundredths of a second. Junior transfer Conrad Woolsey (Excelsior Springs, Mo.) set a new personal best with his provisional qualifying mark to win the men's shot put competition with a throw of 60 feet, 3? inches (18.38m). The third provisional mark came from senior Janae Strickland (Houston, Texas) who won the women's shot put competition with a throw of 51 feet, 8? inches (15.75m) and already earned a provisional mark last Friday in the shot put.
Many personal bests were achieved at the meet. Junior Chris Horn (O'Fallon, Mo.) set personal bests in three events. Horn delivered a first place finish in the long jump with a mark of 23 feet (7.01m), a second place finish in the triple jump after a 47 feet, 1? inch mark, and a sixth place finish in the high jump after a leap of 6 feet, 8 inches.
Junior Jenny Bybee (Springfield, Mo.) broke an indoor personal best after her fourth place finish in the high jump after a leap of 5 feet, 8? inches.
Senior Holly Scherder (Frankford, Mo.) came within four centimeters of her roommate, Ann Snider, for the school record in the weight throw. Scherder won the event, and hit a personal best by a centimeter (58-7?).
Junior Neville Miller (St. Louis, Mo.) won an exciting 800-meter dash race by only six hundredths of a second (1:53.38) beating out Christian Smith of Kansas State, who came in the race with the best time in the Big 12.
Junior Jason Jones (Columbia, Mo./Rock Bridge HS) provided excitement by winning the 400-meter dash with a time of 50.69 seconds.
Other event champions from Missouri included Serena Ramsey in the 3000-meter run and the 4x800-relay team.
Kansas State won their sixth overall title in a row in the triangular with a score of 273?. Kansas took second over the Tigers 227? to 222.
The Missouri track and field team now will host their third consecutive meet next Friday, January 30th when they host the Tiger Classic featuring Indiana, Wichita State, and Big 12 foe, Nebraska.
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