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Falcons Travel To Buffalo This Week For 2010 MAC Outdoor Championships

Wed, May, 12 | Women's Track and Field

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After over four months of action, the 2010 Bowling Green State University track and field season nears completion.  This week, the Falcons take wing to Buffalo, N.Y. for the 2010 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by the University of Buffalo.

The Championships are a culmination of months of effort and preparation on the part of the Orange and Brown.  BGSU will compete over three days, from Thursday, May 13th to Saturday, May 15th, in a number of different events.  For complete meet information, please visit the official MAC Championships website at the link above.

During the outdoor season, the Falcons have competed in eight meets and recorded many successes.  Last weekend at the first annual Toledo Tune-Up, BGSU recorded three top-five finishes and earned an event victory as senior Sabrina Forstein won for the fourth time in the outdoor season in the pole vault.  In earning the victory, Forstein posted a mark of 11-09.75, which ranks her 12th in the MAC for the 2010 season.

Bowling Green arrives at the Championships with many faces on the MAC leaderboard for the outdoor season.  In all, nineteen different Falcon athletes/teams have recorded top-20 times in 16 different events.

Of significant note is the time of 46.84 seconds recorded by the Falcon 4x100 meter relay team at the Hillsdale Relays; that time registers as the fourth-best in the conference this year.  Meanwhile, freshman Tatijana Jacobson owns the fifth-best mark in the high jump this year.  Her leap of 5-07.00 came at the All-Ohio Championships.

Also appearing in the top-ten is junior Barbara Powers.  Powers recorded a time of 11:09.65 in the steeplechase at the All-Ohio Championships.  She ranks as seventh in the MAC in that event.

Junior Heather Conger ranks tenth among all individuals in the MAC in the 800 meters after completing a time of 2:14.82 at the Jack Shaw meet in April.

The Falcons' 4x400 meter relay team also ranks tenth in the conference after posting a time of 3:54.75 at the Hillsdale Relays.

Not to be out-done, sophomore Ashley Fischer has two top-15 individual rankings to her credit, as she is listed 12th in the MAC for the 3000 meters and 15th for the 5000 meters.  Freshman Brooke McCombs (discus, shot put) has two top-20 credits to her name.

McCombs, Fischer and the rest of the Orange and Brown will attempt to use these successes to propel themselves to a top finish at the Championships.  At last year's MAC Outdoor Championships, BGSU finished ninth out of 12 teams.

The complete list of BGSU participants and their events is below.

Thursday, 5/13/10
10:00 a.m. - Hammer Throw (Preliminaries / Finals) - Brooke McCombs, Ashley Harris, Kristin Boettcher
  3:00 p.m. - Javelin (Preliminaries / Finals) - Paige Lane
  6:45 p.m. - 10,000m Run (Final)- Sally Kandie, Andrea Pereira de Almeida, Megan Kelsey

Friday, 5/14/10
12:00 p.m. - Shot Put (Preliminaries / Finals) - Brooke McCombs, Ashley Harris
12:50 p.m. - Long Jump (Preliminaries / Finals) - Brittani McNeal
  1:00 p.m. - 1500m Run (Preliminaries) - Autumn Dettmann, Ashley Fischer, Katie Borgelt
  2:15 p.m. - 400m Dash (Preliminaries) - Danielle Thornton, Felicia Jefferson
  2:55 p.m. - 100m Dash (Preliminaries) - Jeanette Pettigrew, Jessica Grant
  3:30 p.m. - 800m Run (Preliminaries) - Heather Conger, Saisha Gaillard, Mindy Henry
  4:55 p.m. - 200m Dash (Preliminaries) - Jeanette Pettigrew, Brittani McNeal, Allison Weimer
  5:30 p.m. - Steeplechase (Final) - Barbara Powers

Saturday, 5/15/10
11:00 a.m. - High Jump (Final) - Tatijana Jacobson
11:00 a.m. - Discus (Preliminaries / Finals) - Brooke McCombs, Ashley Harris
  1:00 p.m. - Pole Vault (Final) - Sabrina Forstein
  1:00 p.m. - 4x100m Relay (Final) - Brittani McNeal, Jeanette Pettigrew, Felicia Jefferson, Jessica Grant
  1:20 p.m. - 1500m Run (Final) - TBD
  1:40 p.m. - 100m Hurdles (Final) - TBD
  2:00 p.m. - 400m Dash (Final) - TBD
  2:20 p.m. - 100m Dash (Final) - TBD
  2:40 p.m. - 800m Run (Final) - TBD
  3:20 p.m. - 200m Dash (Final) - TBD
  3:40 p.m. - 5000m Run (Final) - Ashley Fischer, Abby Koch, Autumn Dettmann
  4:30 p.m. - 4x400m Relay (Final) - Felicia Jefferson, Heather Conger, Saisha Gaillard, Allison Weimer
                                                             (alt. - Jeanette Pettigrew, Brittani McNeal, Danielle Thornton)