Minnesota State
Saturday, February 4 , 2007

Results

Good showings at Mankato for Men's Track

The St. Thomas men's track and field team had several strong performances at Saturday's non-team scored Minnesota State Mankato Open.

Sophomore James Ewer placed third out of 47 entrants in the 60 meter dash in 7.01 -- just off the NCAA provisional tike of 6.96 (converted time for the 55 meters). In the 200 meters, soph Joe DeFrance placed fourth in 22.58, and Ewer took fifth in 22.71.

In the 800 meters, UST had a 2-3 finish with NCAA provisional qualifying times from Brian Sames (1:53.91) and Matt Boumeester (1:54.84). The NCAA automatic qualifying time is 1:52.90.

In the 5,000, Logan O'Grady was third (15:40.04). Mark O'Connell was second in the shot put (47-10 1-2) and sixth in the weight throw (48-8 3-4); Derek Marks placed third in the weight throw (50-1 1-4) and 10th in the shot put (42-9 1-2). Matt Schroeder took third in the pole vault (15-1 1-2). Cameron Roemhildt was eighth in the high jump (6-4 3-4) and ninth in the triple jump (41-9 1-4). Alex Weaver was 10th in the triple jump (41-4 1-4). Greg Dowe was fifth in the 500 meters (1:07.33); Kyle Brandon was fifth in the mile (4:21.66); Phil Bastron was 18th in the 400 meters (52.46); In the 1000, Eric Baumgartner (2:47.30) and Brendan Sherman (2:47.69) took 14th and 16th.

The Toms will compete in the Minnesota-Wisconsin Border Battle next Saturday at St. Olaf.