The Hiram College indoor track and field teams competed at the annual Greater Cleveland College Championships tonight (Friday, Feb. 22) hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea. The Terrier women placed ninth and the men finished eighth.
The Hiram women tallied nine points to place ninth of nine teams. Notre Dame College finished first with 159 points followed by Baldwin-Wallace with 154.50 points and Oberlin College rounded out the top three with 108.50 points.
Leading the way for the women was senior All-NCAC hurdler Lynne Hutchison (Solon) who finished fourth in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 9.04 seconds. Sophomore Tiffani Martin (Loudonville) finished in a tie for 11th in the pole vault recording a heighth of 7′ 6.50″. The women also had a relay team finish in the top eight. Sophomore Nadrienna Damaris (Detroit, Mich/Renaissance), Hutchison, Martin and freshman Kelly Taylor (Ghana/Wesley Girls) combined efforts in the 4×200-meter relay to post a time of 1:56.26 and finish sixth overall.
The men tallied 24 points to finish eighth of eight teams. Notre Dame College won the overall event with 162.50 points. Baldwin-Wallace was second with 116 points and Oberlin finished third with 81 points.
Junior Kevin Tolbert (Shaker Heights) paced the men by winning the 555-meter dash in a time of 6.54 seconds. Tolbert also captured the 200-meter dash crossing the finish line with a time of 23.30 seconds. Sophomore Stefhen Offut (Twinsburg) placed 11th in the same event recording a time of 24.96 seconds. Rounding out the Terrier men performances was freshman Steve Hammond (Huber Heights/Kettering Fairmont) who finished fifth in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.33 seconds.
The Hiram track teams return to action next Friday and Saturday, Feb. 29-Mar. 1 with the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Championships hosted by Denison University in Granville.
