Coach Clay Calkins wasn't shy when he spoke of resting his better runners for key upcoming meets.
Despite a continuing trend of shattering previous season-best marks, the shorthanded Bobcats finished fourth at the Bowling Green Quad Meet. Mid-American Conference rival Central Michigan took first place with 170 team points, followed by Toledo (128 points), Bowling Green (124 points) and Ohio with 109.
(Fourth place) isn't where we want to be
of course Calkins said. We faced some MAC competition and hopefully it will get us ready for the MAC Championships in a few weeks.
Junior Melissa Wiley placed second in the 60-meter hurdles, nearly matching her season-best mark set last week at Akron. Wiley won the preliminary race with a time of 8.82.
The shotputters continued to place well, as Bahiyjaui Allen and Emily Amendola took first and second place, respectively. Sophomore Christen Bosch took second place in the pole vault with a season-best jump of 10 feet, 11.5 inches.
With the All-Ohio Championships on the horizon, Calkins said that while strategy comes into play selecting his runners, he still looks for good finishes from whomever he starts.
You can't run your top runners every week, Calkins said. There's strategy involved, but you want your best people going in the bigger events.
Ohio travels to Findlay this weekend for the All-Ohio Championships
featuring schools in both Division I and II from across the state.
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23110,2008-02-11 00:00:00,Suicide threat averted,",When an Ohio University police officer was confronted with a suicidal employee on the fifth floor of Baker University Center Friday
he set aside his badge and gun and armed himself instead with God.
I went up the steps and the scene was not good. It was not something I have seen in 21 years of law enforcement, said Lt. Stephen Noftz
a trained crisis negotiator. I introduced myself as a guy named Steve who's a lot of things before he is a cop.
One of those things
Noftz said
was being a Christian.
Things I drew upon from training: when you have a situation like this, it's trusting God to speak to you, he said.
