YSU track teams do well

Staff report

KENT

Adam Kagarise won the 300-meter dash and Samantha Hamilton won the mile run to help lead the Youngstown State men’s and women’s track and field squads at the Golden Flash Gala on Saturday at the Kent State Fieldhouse.

The Penguins had a strong first outing for the 2010-11 campaign. YSU athletes set numerous personal bests as well as cracked the school top-five and top-10 performance lists in many events.

Kagarise won the 300-meter dash with a time of 34.51 seconds while Hamilton won the mile by four-plus seconds with a time of 5:07.43.

Hamilton, whose time in the mile was the fourth-best in school history, won the 5,000-meter run on Friday with a career-best time giving her two wins in two races.

Kaitlyn Griffith placed fifth in the shot put with a career-best toss of 13.53 meters.

Griffith’s throw was the third-longest shot put in school history. Teammate Alison Roth was seventh with a throw of 12.61 meters.

Other top-10 finishers for the women included: Katrina Rettburg, eighth in the high jump with a leap of 1.60 meters; Nicole Pachol, ninth in the 300-meter dash with a time of 42.73 seconds; and Nichole Rymer, 10th in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.11 seconds, the eighth-fastest time in school history.

Eric Rupe was second in the mile with a time of 4:21.52.

Johnny Copley was fourth in the pole vault at 4.60 meters, freshman Darius Reese finished fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 14.15 meters and Bobby Grace was seventh in the shot put with a career-best throw of 15.94 meters.