THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY APRIL 23, 2007
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2007
KANSAS RELAYS
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Junior Hugh Murphy throws the javelin during high winds on Friday afternoon.. Despite the conditions, Murphy's farthest throw landed at 192-02 feet.
Eric Babb wins long jump
Twelve athletes take home top-ten finishes in field events
BY TAYLOR BERN
In front of a crowd filled with friends and world-class athletes alike, senior Eric Babb stunned the field, the crowd and himself with a personal record leap of 25-09 feet to win the long jump.
Babb out-dueled 2006 Kansas Relays triple jump champion Wilbert Walker of Lincoln University for first place.
"I felt good," Babb said in a press release. "I" had all my family here today so it was a great accomplishment for me."
Babb increased his distance on every attempt, eventually settling on his winning distance. Walker, the top seed entering the event, finished at 25-05 and Bermuda's Tyrone Smith came in third at 25-03.
Babb, a 2006 first-team Academic All-Big 12 Conference, surprised himself with his early success.
"It was pretty crazy to see my winning mark," Babb said. "I wasn't expecting my first jump in the finals to do so well. When I saw that mark, I knew I was going to be able to jump
Field Notes:
Senior Abby Emsick finished second in the discus with a 170-05 throw. Emsick's tosx was one foot and five inches short of winner Dace Ruskule of Nebraska. Emsick is the school-record holder in the discus.
Junior Kate
Sultanova finished third in the pole vault,
clearing a height of 13-07. Junior
Libby Harmon tied for sixth at 12-05 and senior
Laura Gjerde and freshman
Brittany Parker tied for eighth at the same height.
Ryan Hays cleared 16-00 to tie for ninth.
Junior Crystal Manning finished fifth in the invitational long jump with her leap of 19-10. Manning is the school-record holder in the triple jump.
Former Kansas All-Americans Scott Russell and Sheldon battle finished
"I wasn't expecting my first jump in the finals to do so well. When I saw that mark, I knew I was going to be able to jump well today."
All are regional qualifiers.
ERIC BABB Senior long jumper
- In the men's pole vault, freshman Jordan Scott finished with a fourth place height of 16-06. Freshman Kirk Cooper came in eighth with the same height, a regional qualifying height for both. Sophomore
first and second in their respective events. Russell, a two-time NCAA champion, easily won the javelin throw with a toss of 264-08, nearly 40 feet better than second place. Battle threw for 63-10 to finish second in the shot put.
Kansan sportswriter Taylor Bern can be contacted at tbern@kansan.com.
- Edited by Lisa Tilson
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Freshman Katie Guinn jumps the final hurdle of the preliminary 400-meter hurdle race Friday at the Kansas Russell. Guinn had a time of 1.04:38, finishing third in her heat.
Howard used a finishing kick to score a decisive victory in the 100. She ran a personal-record time of 11.58, winning by 0.12 seconds.
Butler, who also won her preliminary heat, captured the gold with a regional-qualifying and personal-record time of 59.54 seconds.
"I felt that last week I didn't run very well — it was cold," Butler said in a press release. "Now that the weather is nice, I felt like I could come out and run a nice race."
Butler, like most of the competitors, appreciated the opportunity to run in nice conditions after weeks of cold and rain.
BY TAYLOR BERN
"My coach and I have been working on my technique," Howard
Warm weather facilitates many Jayhawk victories at Kansas Relays this past weekend
Sophomores Sha'Ray Butler and Victoria Howard took the field at the Kansas Relays and won the 400-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, respectively, needing only the proper weather to do so.
sad in a press release. "I've been battling through some injuries, but I gave it my all today and executed my race."
Kansas successful at home
Junior Ashley Brown also looked good on Saturday, competing in the invitational 100-meter and 400-meter hurdles.
best time of 13.33 for sixth place Brown also improved her regional qualifying time in the 400-meter
"I felt that last week I didn't run very well --- it was cold. Now that the weather is nice, I felt like I could come out and run a nice race."
SHA'RAY BUTLER
Sophomore hurdler
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Amer i can
junior Colby
Wissel competed in his first 1,500-meter race on Saturday, finishing in second place with
hurdles, finishing in a fourthplace time of 58.48.
Brown narrowly missed setting a Kansas record in the 100-meter hurdles, coming in at a personal-
■ Junior Julius Jiles finished seventh in the 110-meter hurdles, coming in at 14.03. Jiles also competed in the preliminaries of the 100-meter dash.
Track Notes:
Sophomore Jarrell Rollins placed fifth in the 400-meter dash, running a personal-record time of 48.20.
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- Sophomore Charity Stowers ran 57.03 and came in fourth in the 400-meter dash.
Kansan sportswriter Taylor Bern can be contacted at tbern@kansan.com.
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a time of 3:47.08.
Wissel was using the race to train for the 5,000-meter race he will run next week and still snuck under the regional-qualifying time.
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