1st of 9 at NCAC championship

March 6-7, 2009

Junior Steve Brown (Redford Township, Mich./Redford) and freshman Kyle Lemke (Loudonville) won events as Ohio Wesleyan successfully defended its North Coast Athletic Conference championship at the NCAC indoor track & field championship meet, hosted by Denison University on Friday and Saturday in Granville.

Ohio Wesleyan compiled 148 1/2 points to 137 for second-place Allegheny. Oberlin and Denison tied for third place with 73 points, followed by Wabash (61 1/2), Wittenberg (56), Wooster (31), Kenyon (23), and Earlham (21).

Brown won the 55-meter hurdles in a time of :07.66. His time surpassed the provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA Division III championship meet and improved upon his provisional time of :07.67 set in Friday's preliminaries of the event. Brown also placed seventh in the long jump and eighth in the 200-meter dash.

Lemke won the 800-meter run in a time of 1:56.75.

The quartet of senior Ryan Ellis (Columbus/Dublin Scioto), sophomore Sean Patrick (Delaware/Hayes), senior Preston Osborn (Edgerton), and senior Nathan Osborn (Edgerton) posted Ohio Wesleyan's other first-place finish, taking the 800-meter relay in 1:31.61. The foursome also won all-conference laurels with a second-place finish in the 1600-meter relay.

The Bishop distance medley relay team of junior Christian Schlabach (Wooster/Triway), sophomore Kody Law (Reynoldsburg), sophomore Kyle Herman (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls), and freshman Kale Booher (Covington/Newton) won all-conference honors with a second-place finish. The relay team's time of 10:32.00 broke the school record of 10:32.45 set by senior Garret Andre-Johnson (Walnut Creek, Calif./Berkeley), Law, Herman, and senior Alex Havran (Woodinville, Wash./Overlake) last year.

Also winning All-NCAC honors were junior David Burke (Hudson), who finished second in the high jump and third in the long jump and triple jump; junior Kyle Faris (Olmsted Falls), who finished second in the shot put; Patrick, who was third in the 55-meter dash and fifth in the 200-meter dash; Ellis, who placed third in the 200-meter dash and sixth in the 400-meter dash; senior Andrew Bloom (Powell/Worthington Kilbourne), who was third in the 55-meter hurdles and sixth in the high jump.

Also scoring for the Bishops were Preston Osborn, who was fourth in the 400-meter dash; sophomore Jordon Exeter (Toronto, Ontario/Mercersburg (Pa.) Academy), who was fifth in the long jump and sixth in the 55-meter dash; junior Will Alford (Maple Heights), who placed fifth in the 55-meter dash; freshman Sharif Kronemer (Silver Spring, Md./Springbrook), who was fifth in the 800-meter run; freshman A.J. Sayed (Punta Gorda, Fla./Charlotte), who placed fifth in the triple jump; freshman Evan Hitchcock (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern), who finished sixth in the 5000-meter run and eighth in the 3000-meter run; Nathan Osborn, who was sixth in the 200-meter dash and eighth in the 400-meter dash; junior Brandon Cannon (Dublin/Scioto), who was sixth in the 55-meter hurdles; senior Jon Smith (Clyde/Bellevue), who finished sixth in the pole vault; sophomore Parone Mulrain (Chicago, Ill./Latin School), who finished sixth in the triple jump; Andre-Johnson, who was seventh in the 800-meter run; and freshman David Franklin (Reynoldsburg), who placed eighth in the 55-meter hurdles.

Ohio Wesleyan head coach Kris Boey was named NCAC Coach of the Year.

Final Results