Tribune-Star staff report
Greencastle — Rose-Hulman combined for two school records, three event victories and 17 top-five finishes in a strong performance at DePauw University on Saturday.
The men’s 1,600-meter relay team of freshman Brent Austgen, junior Paul Bouagnon, senior Travis Vanderberg and sophomore Sutton Coleman highlighted the first-place efforts with a victory in a time of 3:24.94.
Other winners included freshman Liz Evans with a women’s high jump leap of 5-feet 7 1/4 at the facility that she will compete during the 2010 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, and sophomore P.J. Schulthies in the men’s high jump (6-4 3/4).
Schulthies led a one-two-three sweep in the men’s high jump for Rose-Hulman. Sophomore Jaret May of Shakamak leaped 6-2 3/4 for runner-up honors, with freshman Chris Good coming home third at 5-10 3/4.
School record performances on the afternoon included a women’s 55-meter high hurdles mark of 9.24 seconds for freshman Gloria Boxell and a women’s pole vault leap of 10-0 for freshman Tanya Colonna.
Tennis
• Men win opener — Rose-Hulman opened the men’s tennis season with a 9-0 victory over Calumet St. Joseph at the Wabash Valley Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon.
Freshman Ben Paras, senior Scott Grubbs, senior Michael Schoumacher and junior David Becerra earned singles and doubles wins to lead the Engineer effort.
Other singles winners included junior Alex Gumz and junior Seth Hendrickson. The third doubles team of junior Dallas Burtonand junior Brent Frizzell rounded out the victors for the Engineers.
Rose-Hulman stands 1-0 on the season and hosts NCAA Division II Southern Indiana next Saturday at the Wabash Valley Tennis Center.
Swimming
• Engineers take five firsts — At Greencastle, Rose-Hulman combined for five first-place finishes to highlight a dual men’s and women’s swimming and diving meet with nationally ranked DePauw University on Saturday.
Newcomers John Huster, Matt Ross and Michael Yuhas joined sophomore Ben Sollman as a swimming event winner to lead the effort.
Huster claimed the 100-yard butterfly in a time of 53.60 seconds. Ross won the 200-butterfly in 2:01.59, while Yuhas swam a time of 18:33.44 in the 1,650-freestyle. Sollman won the 200-individual medley in 2:09.02.
Junior diver Michael Gerdov recorded the fifth event victory with a three-meter diving score of 260.40 points.
On the women’s side, freshman diver Nicole Richardson led the performance with two second-place finishes. Richardson scored 173.80 points in the one-meter event before recording 172.95 in three-meter.
Other top performances for the women included freshman Carley Shumate with a time of 2:26.22 in the 200-backstroke for second place; senior Deb Aleksa with a third in the 1,000-freestyle (11:43.21); and freshman Shannon Cunnien with a third in the 400-individual medley (5:04.93).
The men’s squad combined for four runner-up performances, including three individual efforts. Senior diver Mark Parzych scored 249.25 points in one-meter diving, freshman Max Foltz recorded a time of 19:28.63 in the 1,650-freestyle; and freshman Alex Krull completed the 200-backstroke in 2:08.92.
The 200-medley relay team of Krull, Huster, freshman Patrick DeJarnatt and senior Brian Yount also came home second in 1:40.61.
The diving portion of the squad will compete in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Diving Championships at Illinois Wesleyan next weekend. The swimming portion of the championships takes place from Feb. 18-20.
