LEWISBURG, Pa. - A number of Red Raiders performed well on Saturday afternoon from KLARC Field House as Shippensburg completed its second and final day of competition from the Bison Open & Multi held at Bucknell University.
The 4x400-meter relay of sophomore
Eric Wolfe, freshman
Marcus Line, junior
Todd Phillips and sophomore
Kyle Raguz finished second in 3:26.16, four seconds behind West Chester.
Raguz was one-hundredth of a second short of the fastest time in the 500-meter dash, finishing in 1:07.89. He was one of four competitors from Friday's school-record setting DMR squad at Penn State who made the venture to Bucknell on Saturday for competition.
Another one of those runners was sophomore
Ed Buck, who won the 800-meter run in 1:55.62. Senior
Josh Neyhart finished fourth in the 3K with a time of 8:52.60.
A distance medley squad of junior
Matt Gelety, Phillips, sophomore
Pio Mandato and sophomore
Stephen Schelander finished in 10:14.96, less than a second behind the team fielded by Lock Haven. Both teams ran the DMR at Penn State last night with other athletes.
In sprints, freshman
Dan Speaks posted a time of 7.18 in the 60-meter dash, sophomore
Terrance Topping-Brown completed the 60-meter hurdles in 8.90 seconds while freshman
Marcus Line placed eighth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.83 seconds. Line (51.09) and Wolfe (51.12) were the leading 400-meter runnings.
Among field events, sophomore
Travis Hammaker cleared 14 feet, 9 inches in the pole vault to finish third. Sophomore
John Clark had the team's best long jump at 22 feet, 0.25 inches and placed third. Freshman
Kyle Dickinson paced the triple jumpers at 43 feet, 10.75 inches.
Shippensburg will once again split its roster next weekend and compete in two meets. The Red Raiders will send one faction to the New Balance Games in New York on Friday and Saturday and another group to East Stroudsburg's DeSchriver Classic on Super Bowl Sunday.