Twenty top-eight finishes and a stadium-record effort by Wes Chamblee in the 400-meter hurdles guided Wabash to a fourth place finish Friday night at the 2010 Rose-Hulman Twilight Meet.
Chamblee, senior All-American Emmanuel Aouad, and Billy Rosson posted three of the top-eight finishes in the 400-meter hurdles. Chamblee (right) won the event with a time of 53.02, not only topping the NCAA provisional qualifying mark but shattering the old Cook Stadium record of 53.16. Aouad took third with a time of 54.60, while Rosson was sixth with a time of 55.22.
Aouad ran a time in the 110-meter hurdles that was 1/100th off the Cook Stadium record, crossing the finish line in second place with a time of 14.80. Vincennes runner Pierre Banks set the new stadium record with a winning time of 14.65.
Freshman Matthew Knox took first place in the pole vault as the only competitor to clear 4.63 meters (15 feet, 2-1/4 inches). His winning height was more than a foot above the rest o the field. Sam Glowinski finished seventh overall, clearing a height of 3.97 meters (13 feet, 1/4 inch).
John Haley was second in the 400-meter dash, finishing in 49.86, the fastest time posted in that event by a Wabash runner this season. Freshman All-American Jake Waterman finished in fifth place with a time of 50.22, while Spencer Sheridan finished seventh (51.33) and Andre Adeymi took eighth place (51.53) to give Wabash a total of 15 points in the event.
The Wabash 400-meter relay team of Austin Hodges, Haley, Jake Zielinski, and Vann Hunt was second overall, crossing the finish line in 43.28
Matt Scheller (left) recorded a personal best in the shot put, finishing third with a mark of 14.11 meters (46 feet, 3-1/2 inches). Devin Kelley added a fourth place finish in the discus (40.19 meters; 131 feet, 10 inches), while Ben Burkett finished sixth (40.04 meters; 131 feet, 4 inches). CJ Gum gave the Little Giants a total of 10 team points in the discus by finishing seventh overall (39.80 meters; 130 feet, 7 inches).
Justin Allen added a third-place finish in the 5,000-meter run, crossing the finish line in 15:29.35
Mickey Posthauer grabbed fifth place in the long jump with a mark of 6.48 meters (21 feet, 3-1/4 inches). Zielinski was sixth in the 200-meter dash (22.59). Evan Groninger took eighth place in the javelin (43.70 meters, 143 feet, 4 inches). Kelley just missed a top-eight finish in the high jump, clearing 1.73 meters (5 feet, 8 inches) to take ninth place. Hodges also just missed a spot in the top-eight finishers in the 100-meter dash, finishing ninth with a time of 11.27.
Rosson, Posthauer, Groninger, and Adeymi combined to take sixth in the 1600-meter relay with a time of 3:37.26.
Wabash scored a total of 98-1/2 points in the team competition. Vincennes won the team title with 133-1/2 points, while Marian University took second (102-1/2), and the host Rose-Hulman team took third (100-1/2) out of 14 total teams competing.