Courtesy of GoCobbers.com, Release: March 8, 2008

Meet Rewind:

Day 1 Recap: MIAC Meet Day 1 Recap

Heptathlon Results: MIAC Heptathlon Results

Final Meet Results: MIAC Meet Final Results

Meet Notables: Cobber Notables

Team Totals

Final Team Totals

1. St. Thomas - 235.5
2. Saint John's - 114.5
3. Hamline - 90.0
4. Bethel - 82.5
5. Carleton - 66.5
6. St. Olaf - 61.0
7. Gustavus - 43.0
8. Concordia - 35.0
9. Saint Mary's - 26.0
10. Macalester - 20.0
11. Augsburg - 6.0

Meet Recap:

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (3/08/08)-- Senior Josh Smith led Concordia in the second day of the MIAC Championship Meet as he placed second in the 600-yard dash. Smith's performance helped the Cobbers finish eighth for the third straight season. After recording 18 points in the first day of the event, CC finished the meet with a total of 35.0 points.

Smith finished second in the 600-yard dash after winning the event at last year's conference meet. He almost used the same recipe to win the race in 2008. Competing in the slower heat in the field, Smith clocked a 1:13.63. he was then beat out by Tom Ballinger from Carleton who ran a 1:12.48 to break the facility record. Smith's time was only .01 of a second off the school record of 1:13.62 set by Collin Beachy back in 1992.

Besides Smith, the only other CC athlete to score points on the second day of competition was Billy Oehlers. Oehlers finished third in the shot put with a personal best mark of 50-8.00. His 50-plus toss came in the preliminaries of the event. That mark is the fourth best in program history.

The other point getter for the Cobbers was the 4x200-meter relay team of Xavier Carroll, Perry Patterson, Michael Dunn and Jason Sather. The quartet clocked a time of 1:32.42 and finished sixth. That time is the second fastest in school history and only 0.13 seconds off of the program record set in 2002.

Cobber Notables:

MIAC CHAMPIONSHIP MEET

55m - 6.70, Xavier Carroll, #8 All-Time List

55m- 6.79, Jason Sather, #17 All-Time List

55mHH - 8.08, Paul Westmark, #9 All-Time List

600y - 1:13.63, Josh Smith, #2 All-Time List

600y - 1:16.01, Paul Westmark, #18 All-Time List

1000m - 2:40.10, Justin Shobe, #25 All-Time List

4x2 - 1:32.42, Xavier Carroll, Perry Patterson, Michael Dunn, Jason Sather, #2 All-Time (0.13 seconds off of Bobby Clark, Justin Hendricks, Mike McDonald, Chris Davison, 1:32.29, 2002)

DMR - 10:52.89, Paul Lillehaugen, Michael Dunn, Rocky Jantzen, Justin Shobe, #10 All-Time List

SP - 50-8 (15.44m), Billy Oehlers, #4 All-Time List

Hept - 4479pts, Paul Westmark, School Record (previous record, Paul Westmark, 4163, 2007)

Hept - 3948pts, Marly Simmons, #4 All-Time List

Hept - 3707pts, Jeff Bakke, #5 All-Time List

Hept- 3097pts, Dustin Weege, #7 All-Time List

Hept - 2915pts, Andrew Raske, #8 All-Time List