Five Warhawk athletes had performances worthy of earning provisional qualifying status for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III outdoor championship as UW-Whitewater won the Rex Foster Invitational in Whitewater Thursday. The meet was Whitewater's first home outdoor competition since 2003. Foster Track has undergone extensive renovation.
complete results
photo gallery, courtesy of Joy Kowald
Team scores were: UW-Whitewater 412, Concordia (WI) 90, Ripon College 78, Beloit College 64, Carroll University 45, and Wisconsin Lutheran College 16.
UW-Whitewater swept the top three places in six events, and won seven more, to out-distance the field.
The events that went 1-2-3 included: hammer throw with Shaun Davis (Edgerton/Edgerton) (54.76m), Ryan Howell (New Glarus/New Glarus) (52.87), and Ben Stringer (Assumption, IL/Central A&M) (50.49). Davis and Howell both met NCAA provisional marks. Also Travis Morehouse (Cottage Grove/Monona Grove) (1.99m), Luke Buchholz (Whitewater/Whitewater) (1.94) and Kyle Lencho (Whitewater/Whitewater) (1.89) in the high jump; Brandon Kiraly (Deerfield/Deerfield) (4.48m), Dane Dzubinski (Brookfield/Waukesha North) (4.48) and Tom Weigand (West Allis/West Allis Hale) (4.33) in the pole vault; and Peter Schroeder (Ripon/Ripon) (15.62), Brian Gensrick (Mequon/Homestead) (15.71) and Pat Lockington (Two Rivers/Two Rivers) (16.99) in the 110 meter hurdles. Also Matt Kovnesky (Fort Atkinson/Fort Atkinson) (50.60), Alek Konopacki (Madison/Madison West) (50.70), and Brian Martinezdelacotera (Franklin/Franklin) (50.79) in the 400; and Joe Dixon (Milwaukee/Rufus King) (2:00.28), Devin Ahlers (Slinger/Slinger) (2:01.18) and Kyle O'Rourke (2:01.92) in the 800 meters.
Other first place finishers were Cory Lockridge (Milwaukee/Rufus King) in the long jump (22-1), Mathias Werve (Kenosha/Tremper) in the 1500 (4:09.23), Marcus Smith (Milwaukee/West Allis Central) in the triple jump (47-10.5), Peter Schroeder (Ripon/Ripon) in the 400 hurdles (55.29), and #R.J. Soderman# in the javelin (167-7). Davis added more first place points to his hammer throw, winning the discus (49.69). Davis and Stringer, who went 1-2, both met NCAA III provisional marks in the discus. Smith's triple jump performance was the fifth UW-W provisional mark of the meet.
UW-W will compete in the Eagle Invitational hosted by Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois Saturday, April 18. The meet will begin at 9:00.
For additional information: Darren Schneider, UW-W coach
