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No. 2/5 T&F Wraps Up Sun Angel Track Classic With Handful Of Regional Marks
Sunday, April 13, 2008 | Track and Field
A select group of University of Florida track & field athletes were in action on Saturday at the Sun Angel Track Classic on the campus of Arizona State, where the Gators picked up six NCAA regional marks, three of which improved the individual's standing on the NCAA descending order list.
Both the men's and women's javelin proved to be fruitful events for UF, as four of its NCAA regional standards, and two of its three improvements, on the day came in that discipline. Junior Adam Montague (Townsville, Australia) won the men's competition with a toss of 73.40m/240-10 that fell less than two feet shy of his season best, while freshman Doug Nelson (Tampa, Fla.) was also over the NCAA regional cut with a heave of 61.38m/201-4 to finish sixth and also come up just short of his top mark on the year.
Sophomore Evelien Dekkers (Etten-Leur, The Netherlands) did make an improvement in the women's javelin, capturing runner-up honors with a throw of 51.76m/169-10 to record a season best and NCAA regional mark for the second week in a row. Classmate Star Sansone (Boca Raton, Fla.) finished fifth in the event, but improved her lifetime best for the second-consecutive day with an NCAA regional-qualifying output of 46.93m/154-0. With the effort, she eclipsed the PR of 46.77m/153-5 that she set on Friday night at the Mesa Classic.
Junior Beau Burroughs (Tampa, Fla.) also registered a PR on Saturday, taking eighth in the men's shot put with an outdoor career-best heave of 17.50m/57-5. The performance earned Burroughs his second NCAA regional mark of the year in the event. Sophomore Mariam Kevkhishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia), the 2008 NCAA indoor shot put champion, competed in the invitational/elite section of the women's shot put, and finished second with a top mark of 17.22m/56-6.
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