Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell University
Penn State Open
Bucknell Track and Field Completes Last Meet Before IC4A/ECAC, NCAA Competition
5/8/2004 8:00:00 AM | Men's Track and Field
May 8, 2004
Men's Results | Women's Results
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Sixteen Bison women and eight men as well as a relay squad competed for Bucknell at the non-team scoring Penn State Open on Saturday in the team's last tune-up before heading to the IC4A/ECAC meet at New Haven, Conn., starting Thursday. The NCAA Regional meet in Florida the last weekend of the month.
No new Bison names were added to the IC4A/ECAC lists, which already has six men as well as two relay teams on the IC4A side and 10 women plus two relay teams for the ECAC competition.
Just one Bucknell athlete altered a school top-10 list on Saturday, as Megan Frederick had a personal best and remained in the eighth spot on the school javelin list with a toss of 130'8". Frederick finished fifth in a women's meet that saw three Bison win their events. Melanie Buczko leapt a school-record 12'3 ?" in the pole vault for the third-straight meet, while Lauren Bricker won the triple jump, launching herself 37'7 ?", and Amy Calvo claimed the 400 meters in 58.34 seconds.
Noel Powell was Bucknell's only event winner for the men, winning the 200 meters in 21.39 seconds, just .05 seconds off his school-record performance in 2002.
The IC4A/ECAC Championships begin Thursday, May 13 and run through Sunday, May 16. On the men's side, Bucknell has qualified Powell for the long jump, 100 and 200 meters, Ryan Newberger for the 200 meters, Greg Costello for the 5K and 10K, Dan Lounsbury for the 10K, Mike Mellas for the decathlon, and 4x100 and 4x800 relay teams.
The Bison women eligible to compete in the ECAC meet include Tolu Fayanjuola in the 100 and long jump, Katie Pfiefer in the 10K, Ann Doty in the triple jump, Buczko and Angie Hall in the pole vault, 4x100 and 4x800 relay squads, and Marjorie Grap in the shot put and discus. Grap is one of five eligible hammer throwers, along with Angie McFarland, Erin Lee, Laura Schaffer and Maria Garcia, who took the Penn State meet off, putting her five-meet school-record breaking hammer throws streak on the line at the ECAC meet.
