Syracuse University
NCAA East Region Championship
Bush Vaults into NCAA Championship
5/30/2009 12:38:19 AM | Track and Field
Day One Results
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Senior Bernard Bush vaulted his way to the NCAA Championship after clearing 7.38m in the long jump during the first day of the NCAA Regional Championship at North Carolina A & T State on Friday night. Bush's fifth-place leap garnered four points for the Orange.
Bush joins Kevin Dickson (Georgia – first place), Daune Teixeira (Cornell – second place), Jade Ellis (Duke – third place) and Ed Baldwin (North Carolina - fourth) in the long jump finals starting on June 10 in Fayetteville, Ark. The top five from each region move on to the national spotlight.
The 4 x 100-meter relay team that consisted of senior Terry Marshall, sophomores Sham Lewis and Jarret Eaton and Bush concluded its season after finishing in 13th place with a clip of 40.99.
Following the relay, Eaton and Marshall toed the line in the 110-meter hurdles but did not push through to the finals tomorrow. Eaton crossed the line in 14.07 for 10th place while Marshall was clocked in 14.25 for 16th.
Junior Uhunoma Osazuwa competed in the 100-meter hurdles but was not included in the qualifying heat as she was timed in 14.14 for 26th place.
Sophomore Flings Owusu-Agyapong finished up in 25th place to the tune of 11.90 in the 100-meter dash but failed to qualify for Saturday's final.
Sophomores Catherine DeSarle and Katie Hursey concluded the 5,000-meter run in 19th and 39th, respectively, with times of 16:55.10 and 17:30.71.
Junior Lorraine Hill will take on the East Region's elite in the javelin throw to initiate day two of the NCAA Regional championship at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. The Orange steeplechasers will also get underway at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow evening.
