.jpg) Bennett
Places 20th in Pole Vault at NCAA Track
and Field Regionals
DATE: May
28, 2005
NEW YORK,
NY -- University of Delaware senior Casey
Bennett (right) placed 20th in the women's
pole vault and senior Mike Yost was 26th
in the men's discus at the NCAA Division I
Outdoor Track and Field East Regional
Friday afternoon at Manhattan College's
Icahn Stadium.
The meet
was the final action of the 2005 season
for both the Blue Hen men and women and
capped an outstanding career for both
Bennett and Yost.
Bennett
(Shelton/Shelton, CT), who qualified for
the regional after winning the Colonial
Athletic Association title back in April,
failed on three attempts at the minimum
height of 3.66 meters and was eliminated
from the competition. She was among seven
athlete who failed to reach the minimum
height and tied for 20th. Georgia's
Kierney Hiteshew captured the title.
Yost (Lake
Forest/Felton, DE), the CAA discus
champion, placed 26th out of 27
competitors with a toss of 145-feet,
8-inches in the discus. The event was won
by Florida State sophomore Garrett Johnson
who posted a distance of 199-feet,
4-inches. North Carolina's Vikas Gowda was
second with a toss of 198-1.
Bennett,
who captured 18 career indoor and outdoor
pole vault titles during her career and
set the school indoor and outdoor record,
earned All-East honors earlier this season
by placing seventh at the ECAC
championships. She placed ninth in the
pole vault at last year's NCAA regionals.
Yost won
eight outdoor meet titles this spring in
the hammer and discus and was 15th in the
hammer and 19th in the discus at the IC4A
championships two weeks ago at Princeton.
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