BEREA, Ohio — Junior #
Ashley Bault (Atwater/Waterloo)# was named the Ohio Athletic Conference's Phil Gordon Women's Most Outstanding Field Athlete after posting a pair of victories to highlight Marietta College's final day of the
2011 OAC Indoor Track and Field Championship on the campus of Baldwin-Wallace College. [
Results]
The Pioneer women collected 89.5 points to place fourth, while the Pioneer men totaled 64 points to place in a tie for fifth among the 10 teams. Host Baldwin-Wallace won the women's title with 168.5 points, while Ohio Northern University took the men's crown with 160 points.
Bault, who took runner-up in the long jump on day one, solidified her grasp on the award by sweeping the triple jump and high jump on day two. The standout leaped 10.60m (34-09.50) in the triple jump and then cleared 1.59m (5-02.00) in the high jump to become the first Marietta female since the reinstatement in 2002 to receive an individual award at a league championship.
Junior #
Corryn Muench (Cold Spring, Ky./Newport Central Catholic)# was the Pioneers' third individual champion as she took home the 500m title after crossing the line in a school record 1:18.27.
The men's 4x200m relay, which featured junior #
Anthony Williams (Columbus/Bishop Hartley)#, junior #
Ryan Householder (Frazeysburg/Tri-Valley)#, junior #
Chase Oberfield (Heath/Heath)# and sophomore #
Billy McCulloch (Nelsonville/York)#, also captured a first place finish as the Pioneers crossed the line in 1:31.24.
The men's 4x400m relay also earned All-OAC honors after Williams, junior #
Josh Bibb (Marietta/Marietta)#, Oberfield and Householder placed runner-up with a time of 3:26.36.
Householder added another All-Conference performance in the 200m dash when he broke the school record set minutes earlier by Williams and placed third with a time of 22.50 seconds. Williams finished the previous heat in 22.63 seconds to place fifth.
Junior #
Lauren Asbury (White Sulphur Springs, W.Va./Greenbrier East)# earned All-OAC in the 55m dash when she finished with a personal record time of 7.39 seconds. Asbury also set the school record in the 200m dash (26.77) and placed sixth.
Junior #
Reba Leonard (Brookville/Brookville)# added a school record performance in the 5,000m run as she took fifth by crossing the line in 18:36.16.
The women's 4x400m relay earned All-OAC honors when Muench, sophomore #
Lydia Tillmaand (Xenia/Xenia)#, sophomore #Kristeva Rowe# and Asbury captured third place out of the slow heat.
The women's 4x200m relay, which included Muench, Asbury, Bault and junior #
Kim Keesler (Chagrin Falls/Chagrin Falls)#, also set a school record by putting together a time of 1:47.47 and placed fourth.