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Carson Glad
leads busy weekend for Men's Track
St. Thomas
senior All-American Carson Glad clocked 21.51 and placed ninth
out of 13 runners in a Special 200 Meters race at Saturday's
Drake Relays in Des Moines.
Running in a field of Olympic hopefuls and Division I
athletes, Glad posted the fourth-best Division III time of
2005. His NCAA provisional qualifying time was just .20 off
the NCAA automatic time.
Other St. Thomas entrants at Drake were P.J. Theisen, who
clocked 54.17 in the 400 hurdles; Dave Diercks, who threw
185-0 in the javelin; and the 4x800 relay team of Joe
Hoovestol, Bryce Beckman, Jeff Goeden and Cory Fusco, which
took 10th of 17 in 7:46.19.
St. Thomas had several athletes compete Saturday at Gustavus'
Drake Alternative meet. Diercks won the javelin (166-10);
Derek Marks won the discus; Peter Rosholt was third in the
hammer as he improved his NCAA provisional qualifying mark
(176-3); J.J. Kirby (19-10 3-4), Chris Mattke (19-2) and A.C.
Udeaja (18-10 1-2) placed 3-4-7 in the long jump; Andy Dauer,
Brad Hansen and Matt Schoroeder all tied for sixth in the pole
vault (13-9 1-4); Jarrod Grey (22.98) and Lewis Hildebrand
(23.04) took 7-8 in the 200 meters; Mike Draxton (40-3 1-4),
Michael Madison (39-11 1-4) and Nate Wagner (38-11 1-2) placed
3-4-7 in the triple jump; Chris Mattke (56.17), Travis Birklid
(58.51), Scott Busacker (59.20) and Brian Welle (59.76) placed
3-4-7-8 in the 400 hurdles; J.J. Kirby (50.47), Hildebrand
(50.69) and Kai Sill (52.78) placed 3-5-9 in the 400 meters;
and Birklid (16.12), Mattke (16.45), Welle (16.71) and Robbie
Deming placed 5-6-8-9 in the 110 hurdles.
St. Thomas hosts an invitational meet Saturday May 7 at
O'Shaughnessy Stadium, the Tommies' last competition before
the May 13-14 MIAC Championships at Macalester.
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