Sports Notebook
ISSUE: 02/28/07 > sports > sports notebook
Track teams post record finishes
The Belmont men’s and women’s indoor track-and-field teams both finished tied for 2nd in the A-Sun Indoor Championships in Johnson City, Tenn. Feb. 16-17.
The men’s team finished just 13 points behind champion ETSU. The Bruins won four events and posted 12 top-five finishes. Freshman Hillary Cheruiyot, from Kenya, was named A-Sun Co-Most Outstanding Track Performer and Most Outstanding Freshman Performer. Cheruiyot won the mile run with a conference-record breaking time of 4:20:70, while also finishing second in the 800 meters run.
Senior Channing Twyner won the 60 meters run with a school-record time of 6.90. Junior John Brigham won the 5000 meters title with a conference-record time of 14:56:62. The Bruins’ 4x400 meter relay team of Clint Hamm, Taylor Hart, Stephen Register and David Bergfield won the event with a school-record time of 3:24:70.
The women’s team placed second behind champion Jacksonville. Belmont’s women’s 4x400 meter also won. The team of Lizz Pollock, Kahlai Turner, Lynette Rives and Jessica Giles set a conference record with a time of 3:49:44. Sophomore Rives also placed second in both the 60 and 200 meters runs. Times of 7.59 and 24.38, respectively, set new school records.
Both teams return to action Mar. 17 at the Austin Peay Spring Fling Meet.
Softball team struggles to a 2-6, 0-0 A-Sun start
After going 1-3 in the Gamecock Classic at host Jacksonville State, Belmont returned to the state of Tennessee and went 1-3 again in the MTSU Breast Cancer Strikeout in Murfreesboro. The Bruins’ two wins of the season came Feb.18 against South Alabama and Feb. 23 over Morehead State. A recap of the Feb. 27 game at Memphis will be available in the next issue.
Sophomore Wicke named A-Sun Player of the Week
Sophomore guard Andy Wicke earned A-Sun POW honors by scoring a career-high 31 points on 10-for-12 three-point shooting in a win over Gardner-Webb Feb.15. The Hendersonville native set a Curb Event Center record for the most threes made in a game. Wicke followed up the performance with another solid outing against Campbell by scoring 13 points on 3-for-7 three-point shooting and a career-high six assists.
Men’s golf places ninth
Led by senior Jeff Lanier’s 5th-place individual finish, the Bruins earned their best finish of the year at the Rice Intercollegiate. Lanier finished with a three-round total of 221 (+5), four shots behind the winner. As a team, the Bruins shot a total of 931, 31 shots off the overall team winner, Sam Houston State.
Feb.17 match rescheduled for men’s tennis team
Due to cold weather, the Belmont (1-2, 0-1) Feb. 17 match against conference foe North Florida has been rescheduled for 11 am, Mar. 17 at Belmont’s Davis Tennis Complex. The Bruins return to action Mar. 2 against Mercer in Macon, Ga.
Women’s tennis team drops one, wins one
The Bruins (3-2, 0-0 A-Sun) lost to Southern Illinois, 4-3, Feb.16 at the Davis Tennis Complex before picking up an away victory by way of a 7-0 sweep over Western Kentucky Feb. 23. This win in Bowling Green marked the fifth straight time Belmont has defeated Western Kentucky.
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