Tuesday, February 14, 2012 I TechNews MELANIEKOTO sports@technewsiit.com 11 Men's Indoor Track 8 Field sees more personal records By Erin Vincent TECHNEWS WRITER At the Men’s Chicagoland Intercollee giate Indoor Championships, the Scarlet Hawks performed well against some of the top teams in the nation, including many NCAA DIII schools: Three school records were set, along with personal records for most of the team: The day began with a strong perfore mance from the Distance Medley Relay, set, ting a school record but still falling short of the national qualifying time: Junior Ethan Mona tague, senior Wes Villalobos, sophomore Phil Cano, and senior Phil Theisen put together a team time of 10:39:31, with a mile split from Theisen that would have been a school record: In the Mile race, sophomore Ana drew Montague set a personal and school record with a time of 4:32:10, just 37 hune dredths better than the previous school record: Not far behind, and all with per, sonal records, were Cano (4:38:57), the Ethan Montague (4:4222), and freshman Colin McQuone (5:01:40): Shortly after was the 800 meter race, with Theisen leading the team in a personal record time of 2:02:39: Junior Kenny Murphy and Vile lalobos were not far behind, battling it out to 2:04:40 and 2:04:63 respectiver Fresh, man Kraig Van Wieringen also ran well, coming in at 2:09:96, a new personal record: Running in both the 60 Meter Dash and the 200 Meter Dash were freshman Tyler Haag and junior Kevin Logan, setting new personal records in both events: Haag ran times on66 and 24:71 sec, onds, while Logan was not far off, with 7:76 and 25:52 seconds: The 3 Kilometer race was the last event of the day for the team, seeing four Scare let Hawks compete and set personal records: Leading the way with the new school record was junior Zach Gates in a time of 9:10:09, a second ahead of the old record: Following him were freshman Sam Wietlispach (9:29:64), junior Peter Lau (10:30:64), and sophomore Iohn Pasowicz (10:42:86): For the day, twelve members of the team set personal records in their events: The last Indoor Track and Field meet before Nationals is Saturday, February 18th at the University of Chicago’s Margaret Brad, ley Invitational: Events will begin at 11:30am, and both men and women will compete: Baseball season opener shortened due to By Melanie Koto SPORTS EDITOR The Scarlet Hawks baseball team opened their 2012 season Friday against the Cougars of MideContinent University in Mayfield, Ken, tucky: The original four game series was short, ened to two games due to the cold weather conditions: In the first game of Friday’s double header, the Hawks lost by a narrow one run margin (1314), while the second game didn’t fare quite as well (178): The Hawks started the first game off strong, leading through the first four innings 1379: The Cougars rallied up in the fifth to score three runs, bringing the score to 13712: The Hawks were unable to answer the advance in score, but held defensively in the sixth against the Cougars: Despite best eff forts, the Cougars gained two more runs in the seventh to pull ahead and win the game: Junior Kevin Glennon led the Hawks’ scoring for the game, providing three of the Hawks 13 runs: Senior Nick Wise, junior Ion Celestino and freshman Ryan Fitzpatrick all contributed two weather runs each for the Hawks score, while sophoe more Jordan Obata, senior Reid Matsumoto, junior Iack Kosar and senior Brian Glennon all contributed a run each: Wise was the sin gle scorer for the Hawks in the second game The Hawks will play next in March in Tuce son, Arizona against a variety of state teams: Intramurals and Volleyball Tournament Dodgeball Tournament Indoor Soccer Tournament Friday, March 9th Indoor Soccer Tournament Thursday, April 5th Basketball Tournament Friday, April 6th Basketball Tournament Raquetball Tournament Dodgeball Tournament Friday, February 27th Indoor Flag Football Tournament Thursday, February 23rd Thursday, March lst Thursday, , March 8th Thursday, Apil19th Thursday, April 26th Photo byjenniferAgusto Erin Vincent cn' Recreation Upcoming Events By Jennifer Agosto TECH NEWS WRITER IIT’s Intramurals and Recreation events have taken off again, starting off by presenting their first basketball tournament ofthe semester The coed, 5 on 5, match up tookplace last Thurs, day and Friday and brought in a total of 6 teams: The winning team, named LB], con sisted of Iosep Novell, Diego Astuy, Javier Sanchez, Richard Wade, Julio Melguito, and Cristina Pla: The team was able to outscore their opponents 136 to 103 over the 4 games combined This event was open to all IIT, Shimer and Vandercook students, as all future Intramurals and Recreation events will be: To the left is a full listing of the events scheduled so far for the spring 2012 semester As for fitness classes, unfortunately we’re having a classification issue involving our fitness instructors and must suspend our class offerings until this is res olved: We’re working on this issue to ensure classes are resumed as soon as pos7 sible: We do apologize for the inconvenience For updates on when classes will begin please check out the Facebookpage at facebook com/IITIntramuralsandRec or scan the QR: Kee ating Sport Center’s complete schedule can also be found online at illinoistechathleticscoml: Athlete Spotlight: Name: Erin Vincent Year: 5th Major: Architecture + Structural Engineer, ing Sport: Track&Field Event(s): Steeplechase (or whatever) Favorite thing about your sport: Competing at a faster pace than cross country and the diversity of events: 0 0 Best thing about the fans: You know they’re dedicated if they spend a whole day watch, . ing us run in circles! Favorite thing to do on campus: Play Ultie mate Frisbee and hang with the team: Tip for anyone who wants to be great at your sport: Be patient and know that the results will come in time if you’re willing to . put forth the effort: .