St. Olaf College - Saturday, May 15 , 2004

Complete Results

Power, Thiesen improve NCAA provisional times

St. Thomas junior middle-distance runner Brigid Power and UST freshman P.J. Thiesen had good races on the weekend to improve their NCAA provisional qualifying times.

Power moved from 18th to 10th on the women's 1,500-meter season performance list in NCAA Division III as she clocked a career-best 4:35.66 in a large field of primarily Division I runners Friday night in Atlanta, Ga., at the Georgia Tech Invite. Her time was 27th out of 49 runners in the four sections. That time will improve Power's chances of reaching the Division III nationals in that event. She already had a strong provisional time in the 800 meters.

Thiesen had a career-best 52.81 in the men's 400 hurdles -- the fifth-best time this season in Division III -- as he won at Saturday's St. Olaf Last Chance Meet.

In other Tommie men's performances, Joe Thomas shared second in the high jump at 6-6 1-4; Corey Fusco was fourth in the 800 at 1:53.80; Ben Garbe was second in the triple jump at 45-5 3-4; and Cassidy Glad was sixth in the 400 in 50.68.

There's one more Last Chance Meet scheduled next Friday at UW-LaCrosse. The Division III nationals are scheduled for May 27-29 in Decatur, Ill.