Recent Results: 
       (2/28-29) - at PSAC Indoor Track & Field Championships 
                Men: 1st/11 teams   Women: 7th/12 teams
                Men's Championships MVP/Outstanding Track Athlete-Chris Cowan

This Week: 
       (3/12-13) - at NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships 

        The Bald Eagle track and field team made it three-in-a-row as it barreled through the two-day 2004 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Indoor Track & Field Championships to claim the team title and continue its steak as the only men’s team champion in conference championship history. Haven junior Chris Cowan (Horseheads, N.Y./Thomas A. Edison) was selected the Men’s Most Outstanding Track Athlete and the Championships MVP . The Lady Eagles placed seventh overall in the 12-team field, totaling 21 points.
     Three Bald Eagles and two relays claimed first-place finishes to help the squad to a 46.5 point victory with a conference meet record of 150 total points. Shippensburg University was the runner-up with 103.5 points and Kutztown University followed in third place with 88 points.
     Championship MVP Chris Cowan won the 3000 meters in a fieldhouse record of 8:35.50, and also placed second in the mile run in 4:17.59. The standout Bald Eagle ran the third leg of the winning 4x800 meter relay and also helped out on the second-place distance medley relay which broke a school record with its final time.
       Freshman Aaron Benson (Mt. Jewett/Kane Area) set a championship meet record with his win in the 5000 meters, posting a time of 15:05.32.
     Senior Andy Pollison (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) followed up his win during the 2003 outdoor season with his first indoor title, winning the event with a height of 15’3”.
     The men’s 4x800 meter relay also captured gold, as Joe Smolenski (Manor/Hempfield Area), Joe Wiegner (Ivyland/Council Rock), Chris Cowan and Paul Hallman (Langhorne/Neshaminy) set a meet and fieldhouse record with their winning time of 7:50.11.
     The 4x400 meter relay of Tim Hite (Altoona/Altoona), Tom Skrivanek (St. James, N.Y./Smithtown), Mike Brito (Union, N.J./Union) and Anesu Mushonga (Harare, Zimbabwe/Prince Edward) capped off the meet’s performance with a decisive victory in the final event, earning the conference hardware in a time of 3:21.11.
     The Bald Eagle distance medley relay consisting of Ryan Blood (Summerdale/East Pennsboro), Joe Wiegner, Paul Hallman and Chris Cowan finished as the runner-up by less than one second, and their time of 10:07.51 breaks the Haven’s four-year old school record in the event.
     Junior Julius Magrino (Temple/Meadville) rewrote his own school record in the 35-pound weight throw, finishing second with a distance of 50’6”. Senior Jacob Merrill (Kingsley/Montrose) logged an NCAA provisionally qualifying mark of 47’2-3/4” in the triple jump, good enough to place the Bald Eagle senior second overall.
     In the women’s competition, the Lady Eagles placed seventh out of the 12 team field with 21 points. Kutztown University won the team title with 124 points followed by Shippensburg University in second place with 97.5 points.
     Haven junior Brooke Rangi (Kawerau, New Zealand/Kawerau College) placed second in the pentathlon with 3,192 points. Maggie Borden (Hanover/Delone Catholic) was third overall in the 400 meter dash with a time of 59.53, and also anchored the fourth-place 4x400 meter relay. Melissa Namey (New Kensington/Burrell), Mary Ewanich (Cornwall, N.Y./Cornwall), Laura Phillips (York/Central York) and Borden recorded a time of 4:01.27 to take fourth.
     Lock Haven’s Jana Kauffman (Strasburg/Lampeter-Strasburg) was fifth in the mile run, finishing in 5:17.71. Jessie Williams (Northumberland/Shikellamy) led LHU in the throwing events, placing sixth in the 20-pound weight throw with a mark of 45’7”.

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