6th of 11 at Wilmington Invitational

April 22, 2006

Junior Matt Kempton (Fredericktown) and senior Justin Blackburn (Wadsworth) won events to lead Ohio Wesleyan at the Wilmington Invitational on Saturday at Wilmington.

Wilmington won the meet with 181 1/2 points to 105 1/2 for Wittenberg. Heidelberg was third with 85 points, followed by Huntington (70), Baldwin-Wallace (66), Ohio Wesleyan (58 1/2), Earlham (48), Muskingum (43 1/2), Myers (34), Central State (19) and Dayton (14).

Kempton won the 5000-meter run in a time of 15:34.63.

Blackburn won the 110-meter hurdles in a time of :15.83.

Other standouts for the Bishops included sophomore Joshua Steinke (Wapakoneta), who was third in the discus and sixth in the shot put; freshman Bobby Polley (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny), who finished fourth in the javelin; junior Jordon Sampson (Cuyahoga Falls), who placed fourth in the shot put; sophomore Michael Tornifolio (Stow), who was sixth in the pole vault and eighth in the long jump; junior Will Crabtree (Winchester, Mass.), who was sixth in the 1500-meter run; freshman Preston Osborn (Edgerton), who finished sixth in the 400-meter dash; junior Doug Sampson (Ridgewood, N.J.), who placed seventh in the 1500-meter run; freshman Gary Brenneman (Fredericktown), who was seventh in the 800-meter run; freshman Ryan Ellis (Columbus/Dublin Scioto), who finished seventh in the 200-meter dash; and senior Dan Melcher (Conneaut), who was eighth in the 5000-meter run.

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