Slippery Rock, Shippensburg Continue to Lead After Day Two of PSAC Track & Field Championships
Results Through Friday
Slippery Rock's women and Shippensburg's men continue to lead the PSAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships after the second day of the event, however both leads are very narrow. Slippery Rock leads by just five points, 54-49, over second place East Stroudsburg on the women's side, with Shippensburg in third with 46.5 points. Shippensburg leads second place Lock Haven by just one point, 58-57, on the men's side, with East Stroudsburg in third place with 39 points.
Three individuals successfully defending their titles in individual events from last year. IUP's Maddy Outman won the heptathlon for the second straight year, this time compiling 5062 points to win by comfortable margin of nearly 300 points. East Stroudsburg's Paul Wagner won the hammer throw for the second straight year, running away with the title this time as his best throw was nearly 20 feet better than the second place throw. His mark of 197-00 set a new PSAC championship record. Wagner made it a double on Friday as he also won the shot put, topping Millersville's Avery Webster by less than three inches. Shippensburg's Neely Spence took the title in the 5,000 meters for the second straight year, narrowly beating out Slippery Rock's Jen Harpp, who won the 10,000 meters last night, by exactly two-and-a-half seconds. Mansfield's Brenae Edwards finished in third just under three seconds behind Harpp. All three ran NCAA 'A' automatic qualifying times.
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Thursday Results
Slippery Rock's women and Shippensburg's men lead the PSAC Outdoor Track & Field championships after the first night of the three-day event. The men's and women's 10,000 meters was the only event completed on Thursday. The first events of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon were also held on Thursday. Those events are scheduled for completion on Friday.
Jen Harpp of Slippery Rock won the women's 10,000 in an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 34:16.89, winning by over 30 seconds over second place Tina Yi of Edinboro. The time set a new PSAC championship record. Shippensburg's Sean Stetler won the men's event in 30:40.17, winning by just over eight seconds over Edinboro's Josh Arthur.
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West Chester, Pa. - West Chester will host the 2010 PSAC Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships this weekend at Farrell Stadium. The three-day event gets underway on Thursday morning with both the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon and the men's and women's 10,000 meters and wraps up in the late afternoon on Saturday.
Shippensburg (men) and Slippery Rock (women) are the defending PSAC champions. On the men's side, Shippensburg won by a narrow margin of just 6.5 points over second place East Stroudsburg last year. The Warriors will be looking to make to the top of the team standings after also losing out by just a half-point in this past winter's PSAC Indoor championships when they finished with 134.5 points to Lock Haven's 135.
On the women's side, Slippery Rock won by just 16.5 points over second place Shippensburg last year on the women's side and The Rock will be looking for its fifth straight PSAC championship. Last year was by far the closest margin of victory for The Rock, which had won by at least 70 points in each of their three previous championships. Shippensburg won this year's indoor title back in February, topping The Rock by an equally narrow margin of just 18.75 points.
There will be a total of 12 women and 12 men returning to defend individual titles this year. Those 24 individuals were responsible to the individual titles in 29 of the 40 individual events of last year's meet, not counting the relay events. Headlining that group is Shippensburg's Neely Spence, last year's champion in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meters, and IUP's Maddy Outman, the 2009 champion in the 100 hurdles and the heptathlon. For the men, three multiple-event winners return: East Stroudsburg's Andrew McCloskey in both the 100 and 200 meters, Lock Haven's Nick Hilton in both the 1,500 meters and the steeplechase, and Mansfield's Mike Gray in both the shot put and the discus.