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May 11, 2007

Anderson Wins Twice, Gillespie Captures Third Hurdles Title at League Meet

    Indianapolis -- Bethany Anderson won two throwing events and Aaliyah Gillespie won the 100m hurdles for the third time in her career to lead the Youngstown State women's track team to a second-place finish at the Horizon League Championships.
    Anderson remained undefeated in the shot put in her three-year career and won the hammer for the second-straight year. The Penguins' second-place finish broke their string of three-straight outdoor titles.
    Shayne York was the top individual finisher for the sixth-place men's team with a second-place mark of 44-11 1/2 in the triple jump.
    Anderson won hammer by 16 feet with a mark of 175-8, and her heave of 45-5 in the shot put was tops by nearly three feet. The junior thrower also placed third in the discus with a distance of 135-3.
    Gillespie's time of 14.79 was the top by .18 seconds.
    In the sprints, Darcelle Formby finished second in both the 100m (12.32) and the 200m (24.81), and Kari Kreutzfeld finished second by a half-second out of first in the 400m (56.57). Katie Betts added a third-place finish in the 200m (24.89) and a fourth-place finish in the 100m (12.39). Jennifer Roman and Emily Wollet finished fifth and sixth in the 400m.
    Roman, Formby, Betts and Kreutzfeld won the 4x400m relay
    Madelyn McGhee was the top distance runner with a fifth-place time of 43:17.19 in the 10,000m.
    Amy Hill and Alexis Hall finished second (159-4) and third in the hammer (154-3), and Jacquline Clonch placed fourth in the discus (131-9). Lindsey Hill finished fourth in the javelin (111-8) and fifth in the discus (127-6), and Lindsay Cobey was sixth the hammer (150-7). Robyn Ray finished fifth in the triple jump and the high jump.
    In the men's sprints, Scott Streiner and Eric Baltputnis finished third (11.09) and fourth (11.14) in the 100m. The same combination also finished third and fifth in the 200m, and Dan Nemergut finished fourth in the steeplechase (9:51.79). J.D. Sheppard added a sixth-place finish in the 800m (1:57.37), and Justin Dickman placed sixth in the 10,000m (33:52.50).
    Sheppard, Jerome Jefferey, Clarence Howell and Streiner teamed up to place second in the 4x400m relay, and Baltputnis, Streiner, York and Clarence Howell finished third in the 4x100m.
    In the field, York added a third-place leap of 22-6 1/4 in the long jump, and Dom DeFilippo was third in the hammer (160-0). Kyle Muir (133-6) and Drew Weizer (132-4) finished fifth and sixth in the discus, and Marty Vieth added a fifth-place finish in the high jump (6-1 1/2).