CALVIN SPORTS REPORT FOR MAY 7, 2008
Julie Bratt Does It Again/
Intrigue Added to MIAA Baseball Race
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
For the second time this spring, Calvin College junior Julie Bratt has reset the Calvin women's triple jump record. Bratt did it again on Wednesday night at the Aquinas College Twilight Invitational with a leap of 37-10 3/4, breaking her previous school record of 37-5 3/4 set at the Wheaton Twilight Invitational on April 18. Bratt's jump on Thursday was an NCAA III provisional qualifying mark, currently placing her 15th on the national list.
Bratt's jump highlighted Calvin's efforts Wednesday night. Another highlight came in the women's 4x400 meter relay as juniors Lauren Bergstrom and Kristen Van Sickel along with sophomore Heather Koning and senior Sarah Wittingen took first place with an NCAA III provisional qualifying time of 3:50.43. Junior Brooke Robertson also had a big night, clocking season best times in the 100 meter hurdles (15.64) and 400 meter hurdles (1:06.33). Freshman Rachel Boerner also had a big PR in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 1:06.76. Other notables for the Calvin women included freshman Bethany Beachum taking second in the 100 meters (12.87) and fourth in the 200 meters with a season-best time of 26.41. Koning also won the 400 meters (57.39) while senior Jenny Zylstra won the 5000 meters with a season-best time of 19:07.53. In the women's discus, senior Rachel VanderWiele had a career-best throw of 130-8 in the discus while junior Ashley Glover had a career-best toss of 133-9 in th!
e hammer throw. In addition, freshman Kim Wigboldy won the javelin with a throw of 108-11.
On the men's side, senior Jared Cok won the 400 meters (48.71) and then anchored Calvin's 4x400 meter relay team to a season-best time of 3:17.10. Cock was joined on the relay by sophomore Zach VanderLaan, junior Brad Stroner and senior Joel Baker. Freshman Eric Michel won the pole vault (14-5 1/4) while freshman Dave Busscher was fifth, with a season-best vault of 13-5 1/4.
In addition, Nate DeJong had a season-best jump of 41-10 1/2 in the triple jump while Tim Buiten had a season-best throw of 155-9 in the triple jump.
Both Calvin teams are back in action tomorrow night at the Dr. Keeler Invitational hosted by North Central College.
INTRIGUE ADDED TO MIAA BASEBALL RACE
The Alma College baseball team did Calvin a big favor on Wednesday night by defeating Adrian 5-4 in the second game of a doubleheader. Adrian finishes the MIAA season with a league record of 22-6. At 19-5, Calvin can now win the MIAA title outright if it can sweep a four-game series with Kalamazoo. Winning three of four games would give Calvin a share of the final league title while anything less would give Adrian the league title outright.
Calvin was scheduled to travel Kalamazoo in a doubleheader on Wednesday but the twinbill was postpoined because of rain and will be made up on Friday at 2:00 p.m. at Kalamazoo. The Calvin-Kalamazoo series will now begin tomorrow at Calvin with a doubleheder slated to start at 2:00 p.m.
MIAA BASEBALL STANDINGS THROUGH 5-7-08 GAMES
Adrian 22-6
Calvin 19-5
Olivet 14-12
Hope 12-14
Tri-State 12-16
Albion 11-17
Kalamazoo 8-16
Alma 8-20
Jeff Febus
Sports Information Director
Calvin College
(616) 526-6169 Office
(616) 526-8551 Fax
Received on Wed May 7 23:43:00 2008
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