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Legacy Invitational
Roush Sets School Record; Benford And 4x800 Also Earn Victories At Legacy
04/23/2007 | Women's Track & Field
April 21, 2007
BALTIMORE, Md. - Freshman Heather Roush broke her own school record as she won the discus at the Legacy Invitational on Saturday.
Roush threw the discus 144-feet-0 to break her previous school mark by two inches and win the event. She also finished third in the javelin with a personal best toss of 124-8 and took ninth in the shot put with a heave of 37-8.
On the men's side, freshman Andrew Benford lapped the field to win his first 5,000-meter run on the track in 14:46.42 and junior Hunter Willis ran the anchor leg of the 4x800 relay without one of his sneakers, but still led the Spiders to victory.
Willis lost a sneaker during the handoff with sophomore Garrett Graham, but ran the last leg of the relay in 2:17.2 which was good enough to give Richmond the win. Junior Jonathan Molz (1:56.7), sophomore Jeff Strojny (1:57.1) and sophomore Garrett Graham (2:00.8) helped give the Spiders a lead that the one-sneakered Willis could protect.
Junior Shelby Faircloth was the runner-up in the women's 5,000 in 19:21.74. Sophomore Jessica Young finished fourth in the 200 dash in 24.46 seconds, while freshman Monique Hawkins finished eighth in the event in 25.26 seconds. Hawkins also finished 16th in the 100 dash in 12.36 seconds.
Junior Tara Markey placed fourth in the 800 in 2:20.10 and sophomore Paloma Krakower was eighth in 2:23.60. Freshman Megan Ney took fifth in the long jump with a leap of 17-10 3/4 and took 10th in the triple jump at 35-8 1/2. Freshman Alyssa Mankin finished seventh in the 1,500 in 5:00.25 and freshman Jasmine Cottle placed 15th in the 400 in 58.56 seconds.
Sophomore Jasmine Major took 12th in the 100 hurdles (14.87) and freshman Kerry Kelly took 16th (17.12). Kelly finished 13th in the 400 hurdles (1:08.08). Sophomore Marissa White took 26th in the 100 dash (13.31) and 27th in the 200 dash. Freshman JoAnna Ubiwa was 28th (13.42) in the 100 dash.
The Spiders' 4x100 relay team of Cottle, Hawkins, Major and Young finished fourth in 48.21 seconds.
Graham placed fifth in the men's 1,500 in 4:00.40 and sophomore Dan Petty took 13th in 4:15.87. Junior Neil Slotterback placed fourth in the javelin with a toss of 159-5 and sophomore Chris Kondorossy was seventh in the discus with a throw of 107-11.
Junior Tim Hightower placed ninth in the 100 dash in 10.99 seconds and junior Lawrence Sidbury took 20th in the preliminaries in 12.31 seconds. Sophomore Sean Welsh finished eighth in the 800 in 1:56.62, sophomore Greg Hoffman took ninth in 1:57.01 and sophomore Derek Jensen was 12th in 1:57.39.
Richmond returns to action at the Penn Relays this weekend at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
