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HCC Sports Information
Friday, January 30, 2009
OVERLAND PARK – Sophomore
middle distance runner Chris Copeland became the sixth Hutchinson Community
College men’s track and field national indoor qualifier on Friday night at
the Johnson County Cavalier Night Relays.
Copeland won the 600 meters
with an NJCAA Indoor National Championship qualifying time of 1 minute,
23.22 seconds. Copeland qualifies for the indoor national championships for
the second-straight season.
Copeland joins Eron Phillips
(long jump, high jump), Ben Kruse (pole vault), Taz Hawthorne (shot put) and
the HCC distance medley relay as national indoor qualifiers.
Hutchinson dominated the
three-team meet (Johnson County and Cowley College were the other competing
teams), winning 13 of 15 events. The Blue Dragons had 16 top-three finishes
and swept the top three places in five events.
The Blue Dragons had two
double-event winners on Friday night.
Hawthorne captured both
throws events. The 2008 indoor All-American won the shot put with a throw of
49 feet, 6.5 inches; and then won the weight throw at 44-4.
Phillips tied for first with
Cowley’s Ray Quill in the high jump. Both went 6-6. Phillips won his
third-straight long jump event with a leap of 23-6.
Other Blue Dragon event
winners at the Cavalier Night Relays were:
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Freshman sprinter
Devery Bell in the 60 meters with a time of 7.01 seconds.
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Freshman sprinter
Robert Foster won the 200 meters in 23.27 seconds.
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Freshman middle
distance runner Sol Jackson won the 400 meters in 52.34 seconds.
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Sophomore middle
distance runner Wade Adams won the mile run in 4:33.41.
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Freshman hurdler
Derrick Krautlarger won the 60-meter hurdles in 8.62 seconds.
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The 4x400 relay won
in 3:30.79.
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Sophomore Ben Kruse
went a season’s-best 14-10.75 to win the pole vault.
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Freshman Michael
Bethea won the triple jump at 43-7.75.
The Blue Dragons will have
their lone off week of the indoor season before heading to the second
Oklahoma Christian Invitational next Saturday, Feb. 14 in Norman, Okla.
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