Baker’s second-place finish in triple jump best performance for QU track team at GLVC championships
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — Jerron Baker’s second-place finish in the triple jump with a distance of 14.37 meters was the best finish for the Quincy University track and field teams at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships on May 2-3.
The Quincy men’s team finished tied for 11th place with 16 points.
Landon Sprous reached the 110-meter hurdles finals with a time of 15.27 seconds, and Dominick Ricci missed the finals with a time of 15.75 seconds, a personal best. In the 400-meter hurdles, Ricci missed the finals of the 400-meter hurdles, but his time of 55.46 seconds was a personal best.
Jack Thompson finished ninth in the high jump with a height of 6.89 meters, and he was fifth in the triple jump with a leap of 14.28 meters.
Ricci rounded out the jumps for the Hawks at the landing area. In the high jump, Ricci hopped over the 1.82 and 1.87-meter bars but had trouble getting over the 1.92-meter bar, ending his day with a 1.82-meter leap. Ricci was also a part of the 4×100-meter relay that occurred after his time at the high jump. Ricci, Baker, Jack Thompson, and Jayden Ruiz ran a 44.22-second relay on the day in a tough group of sprinters.
Ricci, Thompson, Sprous and Owen Weinfurtner took 11th in the 4×400-meter relay, finishing in 3:44.79.
Katie Park was the lone QU female to qualify for the GLVC Championship and set a school record in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:18.95.
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