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KENT FINISHES SECOND AT MIAA HEPTATHLON
May 3, 2008-Emporia State had three event champions and five provisional qualifiers after the first day of competition at the MIAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Maryville, Mo. The Hornet women are in third place after seven events and the ESU men are sitting in fourth after five events. ESU has placed 12 athletes into Sunday’s finals, six men and six women.
Jonel Rossbach began her quest for four MIAA titles with a win and provisional qualifier in the 3000m. She also had the third fastest qualifying time in the 800m.
Jennifer Robinson won the other MIAA championship for ESU on Saturday with a provisional qualifying mark of 18-09.25 in the long jump.
After finishing second in the heptathlon on Monday, Brooke Kent placed third in the long jump with a provisional qualifier on Saturday. She ran the second fastest time in the prelims of both the 100m and 200m.
Jaclyn Sill has qualified for the finals in both the 200m and 400m and Ashley Spencer will be running in the 400m hurdle finals.
ESU picked up 18 points in the men's triple jump led by Josh Honeycutt’s championship with a provisional qualifier. Matt Koelling placed fourth with a provisional qualifier and Douglas Marshall finished sixth.
Damon Birk gave ESU five points with a fifth place finish in the discus and an eighth place finish in the hammer. Kevin Roulhac was seventh in the hammer for ESU and Brock Ternes placed fifth in the 10,000m.
Kenton Lonberger advanced to the finals in both the 100m and 200m with the third fastest qualifying time in each event. He will be joined in the 100m finals by Travis Lee and in the 200m finals by Josh Schuler, who each placed sixth in the prelims.
Craig Saalfeld advanced to the 400m finals with a sixth place finish and Eric Wellman placed eighth to qualify for the finals in the 800m.
The meet will wrap up on Sunday with finals in 15 women’s events and 16 men’s events.
ESU Individual Results
| Women 100 Meter Dash | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 2 Brooke Kent | 12.19Q |
| 10 Renae Weaver | 12.72 |
| 13 Lynnsey Nichols | 13.00 |
| Women 200 Meter Dash | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 2 Brooke Kent | 25.33Q |
| 6 Jaclyn Sill | 25.59q |
| 17 Ryan Green | 26.77 |
| Women 400 Meter Dash | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 3 Jaclyn Sill | 57.65q |
| 13 Chastity Hughes-Stanton | 1:00.14 |
| 15 Kylie Bookout | 1:05.65 |
| Women 800 Meter Run | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 3 Jonel Rossbach | 2:19.17Q |
| 10 Kathryn Davison | 2:21.28 |
| 13 Tiffany Baum | 2:22.80 |
| Women 3000 Meter Run Final | |
| 1 *Jonel Rossbach | 10:10.20 |
| Women 100 Meter Hurdles | |
| 14 Ryan Green | 16.84 |
| Women 400 Meter Hurdles | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 5 Ashley Spencer | 1:04.84q |
| Women Long Jump | |
| 1 *Jennifer Robinson | 5.72m 18-09.25 |
| 3 *Brooke Kent | 5.63m 18-05.75 |
| 4 Renae Weaver | 5.47m 17-11.50 |
| 6 Ryan Green | 5.27m 17-03.50 |
| 17 Lindsay Lippert | 4.94m 16-02.50 |
| Women Discus Throw | |
| 13 Molly Pannbacker | 37.74m 123-10 |
| Women Hammer Throw | |
| 15 Molly Pannbacker | 34.40m 112-10 |
| Men 100 Meter Dash | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 3 Kenton Lonberger | 10.73Q |
| 6 Travis Lee | 10.75q |
| 11 Josh Schuler | 10.87 |
| 16 Larry Beamon | 11.04 |
| Men 200 Meter Dash | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 3 Kenton Lonberger | 21.75Q |
| 6 Josh Schuler | 21.80q |
| 15 Larry Beamon | 22.46 |
| Men 400 Meter Dash | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 6 Craig Saalfeld | 49.76q |
| 16 Kyle Mann | 51.74 |
| Men 800 Meter Run | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 9 Sloane Kern | 1:56.06 |
| 12 Michael Stephens | 1:57.48 |
| 15 Dan Quillen | 1:59.25 |
| 18 Kyle Kotzman | 2:00.93 |
| Men 1500 Meter Run | |
| Preliminaries | |
| 8 Eric Wellman | 4:09.46Q |
| 17 Chris Dvorak | 4:35.35 |
| Men 10000 Meter Run Final | |
| 5 Brock Ternes | 31:52.22 |
| Men Triple Jump | |
| 1 *Josh Honeycutt | 15.29m 50-02.00 |
| 4 *Matt Koelling | 14.51m 47-07.25 |
| 6 Douglas Marshall | 14.34m 47-00.75 |
| Men Discus Throw | |
| 5 Damon Birk | 46.45m 152-05 |
| 10 Kevin Roulhac | 45.22m 148-04 |
| Men Hammer Throw | |
| 7 Kevin Roulhac | 49.80m 163-05 |
| 8 Damon Birk | 48.20m 158-02 |
| 16 Dusty Loyd | 40.88m 134-01 |
All field events, women’s 3000m and men’s 10K are finals. All other events are prelims.
Women’s Team Standings After Seven Events
| 1) Missouri Southern | 92 |
| 2) Central Missouri | 44.50 |
| 3) Emporia State | 43 |
| 4) Truman | 37 |
| 5) Pittsburg State | 21.50 |
| 6) Fort Hays State | 14 |
| 7) Northwest Missouri | 13 |
| 8) Southwest Baptist | 8 |
Men’s Team Standings After Five Events
| 1) Central Missouri | 52 |
| 2) Pittsburg State | 34 |
| 2) Fort Hays State | 34 |
| 4) Emporia State | 32 |
| 5) Missouri Southern | 26 |
| 6) Northwest Missouri | 12 |
| 7) Southwest Baptist | 5 |
| 8) Truman | 0 |
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• ESU women 10th; men 18th at NCAA Championships (May 24)• ESU at ATG Qualifier (May 10)
• ESU men & women 3rd at MIAA Championships (May 4)
• ESU at MIAA Multi-Events (April 27)
• ESU at Sooner Inv. (April 26)
• ESU at Mt. SAC and Long Beach Inv. (April 19)
• ESU at KU Relays (April 19)