The Valparaiso University males’s observe and subject staff scored 21 factors and completed in the highest half of the sphere, whereas the ladies’s squad accrued 19 factors because the Beacons participated in Indiana State’s Pacesetter Sports Invitational on Friday and Saturday in Terre Haute, Ind.
How It Happened
- Senior Brian Sponaugle (Milton, De. / Cape Henlopen) received the lads’s javelin on Friday in a 15-athlete subject, scoring 10 factors for the Beacons with a throw of 57.23 meters (187-9).
- In the ladies’s 5000, the Beacons took two of the highest three spots in a 24-runner subject. Redshirt senior Chante Dixon (Benoni, South Africa / Kempton Park [UTSA]) was the runner-up in 17:51.54 and notched eight factors, whereas sophomore Kensington Black (Franklin, Ohio / Franklin Senior) completed third in 17:57.72, a private file, scoring six factors.
- The different Friday point-scorer was senior Alex Valerio (Rockford, Ill. / Boylan Catholic), who clocked a time of 15:30.91 in the lads’s 5000 to put seventh and garner two factors.
- In Saturday’s subject occasions, Silas Mathis (Gary, Ind. / Merrillville) had an outside PR by clearing 1.91m (6-3.25) in the excessive bounce, inserting fifth to notch three factors.
- On the observe on Saturday, the ladies earned 5 factors primarily based on a fourth-place end from the 4×4 relay of Worzella/Parsons/Guiley/Tisdale, which positioned fourth in 4:19.86.
- Sophomore Ferdinand Rosa (Toa Alta, P.R. / American Military Academy) positioned sixth of 18 in the 400 in 49.53 to realize three factors for the Beacons.
- Freshman Braden Hoff (New Lenox, Ill. / Lincoln-Way Central) positioned eighth of 43 in his first out of doors 1500, scoring some extent.
- Senior Alina Worzella (Martinsville, Ind. / Martinsville) simply missed scoring in the 800, incomes a top-10 end at ninth of 36 with a time of two:20.35.
Up Next
The Beacons will take part in the Tennessee Invite in Knoxville, Tenn. beginning on Friday, April 10.