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Pope Wins Third Straight Shot Put With NCAA Provisional Mark
1/28/2006 12:00:00 AM | Track
Jan. 28, 2006
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Ebony Foster and Mitchell Pope of the NC State indoor track & field teams both won events with NCAA Championship provisional qualifying marks this weekend at the UNC Fast Times Meet in North Carolina's Smith Fieldhouse. Foster won the 60m hurdles with a provisional qualifying time of 8.31 and ran a 8.30 in the preliminaries, the fastest in the ACC this season. Pope hit the provisional mark in the shot put for the third weekend in a row, with a new career best throw of 61-7.
Jemissa Hess won the mile with the ACC's top time of the season with a 4:49.05 in the High Point University transfer's debut for the Wolfpack.
Tabitha Woodard was the runner-up in the pole vault, clearing 11-5.75 for the third straight meet.
Foster and Joya Rodgers tied for fifth place in the 60m, with a time of 7.72. They were the first collegians to cross the finish line and Foster ran a 7.66 in the prelims.
Lee Ann Wheatley, Michele Popple, Jennifer Boyd and Georgia Davis came in sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth in the 3,000m. Wheatley ran it in 10:10.23, Popple 10:20.78, Boyd 10:26.13 and Davis 10:29.27.
Mattie Bethea took eighth in the pentathlon with a score of 3078, Christie Black finished 10th with a 2948 and Jennifer Webster placed 12th at 2757.
On the men's side Tibor Vegh posted a 4:14.94 in the mile to take third place while Stephen Furst came in fourth at 4:15.27 and Bryce Ruiz finished sixth in 4:18.62.
Reggie Reese ran a 6.88 in the 60m to take sixth place.
Chris Crawford came in seventh place in the weight throw with a mark of 55-5.5 and hit 51-4.25 to take eighth place in the shot put. Pope placed fourth in the weight throw with a career-best mark of 58-1 and Kent Dickens reached 43-10.75 for 10th place in the weight throw.
NC State returns to action next weekend when it heads back to Chapel Hill for the Carolina Invitational Feb. 4.
