Cress wins 100, 200; men get nine firsts at UST Invite

April 9, 2002
Junior All-America sprinter Roman Cress won the 100 and 200 meters Tuesday and the Tommies won seven other events at Tuesday's non-scored St. Thomas Invitational at O'Shaughnessy Stadium.

Cress clocked 10.94 in the 100 and 22.22 in the 200. The Tommies also swept the 4x100 (42.22) and 4x400 relays (3:21.24), and claimed both hurdles events with Craig Benson taking the 110 highs (15.34) and Andrew Hilliard winning the 400 intermediates by exactly hitting the NCAA provisional qualifying time (54.40).

Bryce Beckman won the 800 (1:58.23); Andrew Kisilius won the long jump (6.61m); and Aaron Johnson won the hammer (45.88m) and took third in the shot put (14.09m) and discus (42.42m).

The Tommies had five runners-up -- Tom Hart in the 100 (11.23), Jason Schwietz in the 400 (49.34), Andy Kummer in the 5,000 (15:11.44), Ben Garbe in the triple jump (13.27m) and Joe McCarney in the 110 hurdles (17.20).

Third-place finishers for UST were Nick Maddox in the 5,000 (15:15.11), Cory Fusco in the 1,500 (14:12.44), Peter Bernardy in the 800 (1:58.75), Justin Hall in the 400 (49.46), Carson Glad in the 200 (22.84) and McCarney in the pole vault (14-0).

The Tommies will compete Saturday in the St. Olaf Invite.

see link to men's, women's final results here