Lyons duo shines at Roadrunner Invitational
NORTON, Mass. ? Two members of the Wheaton College men's track and field team have earned weekly awards from the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC), it was announced yesterday.
Senior Sam Fear (Bath, Maine/North Yarmouth Academy) was named the NEWMAC Field Athlete of the Week and sophomore Ben Sharma (Lexington, Mass./Lexington) garnered NEWMAC Track Athlete of the Week accolades.
Fear finished fifth overall in the high jump clearing a height of 6-feet and 0.75-inches at the Roadrunner Invitational on Saturday. Fear has now competed in the high jump three times this season posting a height of 6-feet for fifth place overall at the Bridgewater State University Invitational on March 23 and a height of 5-feet, 10-inches at the Snowflake Classic on March 30. Fear also helped the Lyons to a second place finish in the 4x400-meter relay at the Bridgewater State University Invitational with a combined time of 3:36.03.
Sharma ranked fifth overall in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.81-seconds and ninth overall in the 400-meter hurdles in 58.85-seconds this past weekend. Both times for Sharma are season-bests as the sophomore surpassed his previous season-high times of 15.88-seconds (110-meter hurdles) and 1:00.37 (400-meter hurdles) at the Snowflake Classic. Sharma finished fourth in the 110-meter hurdles and seventh in the 400-meter hurdles (1:00.37) in those respective events two weeks ago.
Wheaton returns to action on Saturday, April 13 at the Brown University Invitational.
Source: http://athletics.wheatoncollege.edu/sports/mtrack/2012-13/releases/20130409i6ixjc
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