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Teams: Men's Track & Field: Schedule
& Results
ENGELKING FINISHES THIRD IN DECATHLON AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
MEET
COLLEGE MEN'S TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
NCAA Division 3 Championships
Thursday-Saturday, May 21-23, 2009
At Marietta, OH
Meet Results
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All-American decathlete Jared Engelking
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MARIETTA, Ohio -- After a strong second day of competition in the decathlon at the
2009 NCAA Division 3 Men's Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Tufts
University junior Jared Engelking (Westborough, MA) finished in
third place overall to earn All-American honors in the event.
Engelking finished with a total of 6,834 points. On Thursday, he scored a combined total of 3,458 points in the 100-meter
dash, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400-meter dash to place ninth
out of 17 decathletes after one day. On Friday, Engelking jumped six
places to finish third overall. He scored a combined 3,376 points in the
100-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw and
1,500-meter run. Junior Josh Lovell of Linfield College won the NCAA
decathlon with 7,080 points.
Engelking's best performances in Thursday's events were a time of
11.48 seconds in the 100-meter dash for 757 points and a time of 50.59
seconds in the 400-meter dash for 788 points. In his signature event to
lead off Friday's competition, the 110-meter hurdles, he finished in
15.07 seconds for 841 points. He won that event, and also was first in
the discus throw with a 128'2" (39.08m) toss for 646 points.
Tufts senior quad-captain Skip Pagel (Mystic, CT) pulled a
hamstring and had to
withdraw from the decathlon after two events on Thursday. He was ranked second out
of 17 NCAA entrants after scoring a school-record 6,871 points in the
event at the All-New England Championships hosted by UMass May 8-9.
Engelking's NCAA score was just shy of Pagel's school record. It was
more than 250 points better than his NCAA qualifying mark of 6,582
points scored at the New England Division 3 meet at Springfield College April
30-May 1. Engelking's third-place finish at NCAA's scored six points for
Tufts, which tied them for 49th place at the meet.
Jumbo junior Jesse Faller (Burlington, MA) raced in the 5,000
meters on Saturday and finished 11th with a 15:08.98 finish.
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