Storm tune up for IIAC Championships at Monmouth

MONMOUTH, Ill. – Thanks to inclement weather throughout much of Iowa, the Simpson track and field team sent athletes to the Fighting Scot Invitational at Monmouth College on Saturday.

Simpson had a number of strong performances, including three winning efforts in the final meet leading up to the Iowa Conference Championships this weekend.

Women's Highlights

• The 4x100-meter relay team of Bayley Fleshner, Lauren Martin, Sarah Ney and Jordan Maher ran the second-fastest relay in Simpson history, placing second in 48.84 seconds. The effort is the fastest since 1996, when the team of Barnes, Halupnick, Hoctel and Flinn ran 48.18.
• Maher won the discus (133-04), beating one of the nation's top-20 throwers in Monmouth's Allison Devor. She also placed second in the 100-meter hurdles, running a career-best time of 15.40.
• Fleshner beat out Maher in the 100 hurdles, finishing in 15.19.
• Ney placed second in the 200 meters, finishing in 26.33.

Men's Highlights

• John Cord had a busy meet, winning the javelin (168-08) and beating current Iowa Conference leader in the event, Michael Meersman of Loras, in the process. He also came in fourth in the high jump (6-02) and fifth in the long jump (21-4 3/4).
• Brice Sheeder placed third in the 400-meter dash (50.31).

Up Next

The 2013 Iowa Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championship hosted by Loras kicks off Friday, May 10 at the Rock Bowl in Dubuque. Action starts at 1 p.m. on Friday and concludes Saturday at 10 a.m.