Milwaukee Claims Fourth-Straight Indoor League Track Title

Jeremy Majors

Panthers win eight titles on meet's second day

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Feb. 25, 2007) - The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men's track and field team won eight events on day two to run away with its fourth-straight Horizon League Indoor Championship, Sunday in Ann Arbor.

Milwaukee won the meet going away with 175 points, 79 points over Youngstown State in second place. Butler was a close third with 94 points, while Loyola was fourth with 76. UIC scored 71 points to take fifth and Detroit rounded out the field with 40 points in sixth.

Senior Jeremy Majors was named the Outstanding Running Performer of the meet after winning the 400m and 800m events Sunday and running with the first-place 4x400m relay. Freshman Quinn Mongoven was named Field Newcomer of the Year and head coach Pete Corfeld picked up the 28th Coach of the Year title of his tenure at UWM.

Majors led four Panther scorers in the 400m, crossing the line in 49.56. Freshmen Isaiah Adams in third (50.06) and Tyler Bucholz in third (50.17) rounded out the top three. Sophomore Pat Casey took sixth in 50.85. Majors finished the 800m in 1:56.86 and was joined by Casey, senior Trentin Edwards and junior Lynn Koepke in running a time of 3:22.24.

Edwards won an individual event of his own, crossing the line in the 200m in a time of 22.01. Adams tied for fourth in that event with a time of 22.52.

Mongoven was victorious in the high jump with a final height of 6-7 1/2. He was joined in the event by junior Justin Bohler in sixth with a height of 6-1 1/2. Bohler also took second in the heptathlon with 3,710 points and sophomore Adam Podd was third with 3,348.

Sophomore Adam Schleis, Saturday's long jump champion, won the 60m hurdles on Sunday and took second in the triple jump. His 60m hurdle time of 8.27 was just 0.01 seconds off the league record. Bohler was third in the hurdles in 8.52. Schleis' triple jump of 44-8 3/4 trailed only teammate Darren Cole's leap of 47-3 3/4. Cole won the event for the second-straight season and gave UWM its ninth indoor triple jump champ in 11 years.

The Panthers claimed another strong showing in the throwing events, with senior Nick Gretz winning his third-straight title in the shot put with a throw of 54-8 1/4. Junior Larry Ehrhorn, who took second in the weight throw with a school record Saturday, took fourth at 50-11 and senior Nick Wichert threw 46-11 3/4 for sixth.

For the majority of the Panthers, the indoor season has come to a close, while a select handful of athletes will return to action next weekend at the Alex Wilson Invitational in hopes of qualifying for the NCAA Championships.