Duke Set for Tobacco Road Cup, Virginia Tech Invite

1/22/2015 11:17:00 AM | Track & Field

By: Duke Sports Information

DURHAM, N.C. – After opening the indoor season at the Dick Taylor Carolina Cup last Friday, the Duke track and field team will be represented at two meets this week. The Blue Devil multi-event athletes will head back to Chapel Hill, N.C., for the Tobacco Road Cup Jan. 22-23, while the rest of the team will travel north to Blacksburg, Va., for the Virginia Tech Invite Jan. 23-24.

In the Tobacco Road Cup, competing for the Blue Devils on the men's side will be Ian Rock and Tanner Johnson. The women will be represented by Karli Johonnot and Teddi Maslowski. Robert Rohner, who is redshirting the indoor season, will be competing unattached. At the Carolina Cup, Johonnot garnered one of Duke's 12 first-place performances, finishing first in the high jump with a leap of 5-10.75 (1.80). The action in Chapel Hill will get underway Thursday at 5 p.m.

In Blacksburg, the Blue Devils will get their first look at the venue that will host the 2015 ACC Indoor Championships. Friday's action will get started at 5 p.m. with the men's triple jump and men's weight throw for the field events, followed by the women's weight throw and unseeded men's pole vault.

On the track, the first race of the day will be the 3,000, followed by preliminary heats of the 60 hurdles and the 60 dash. The Blue Devils will then get their first attempt running the 1,000 before running the finals of the 60 hurdles and dash. Wrapping up the first day of competition will be the 600, mile and 300. Nate McClafferty will look to build off his first-place finish in the mile at the Carolina Cup, where he ran a personal best 4:06.63.

Saturday's portion of the meet will get started at 11 a.m. with the seeded women's pole vault. All-American Megan Clark will look to continue her winning ways after finishing first in the event last Friday. Starting at noon will be the women's high jump, the men's shot put and both the men's and women's long jumps. Stephen Boals highlighted this group last week with a first-place showing in the shot put, tossing the implement 56-9.00 (17.30). Concluding the field events will be the seeded men's pole vault, women's shot put and men's high jump. Connor Hall was victorious in the pole vault last Friday, while Urina Harrell and Erica Brand finished first and second in the shot put.

Day two of racing will start at 12:45 p.m. with the 400, followed by the 800 and the 200. The Blue Devils found success in these events at the season opener, taking the top four spots in the 200, first and second in the 400 and the top three spots in the 800 on the women's side, while the men took first and third in the 800 and second and fourth in the 200. The meet will finish with the 5,000 and the distance medley relays.

A full schedule of events for the Virginia Tech Invite and Blue Devils competing can be found below.

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Friday, Jan. 23

Time	Event	Name
5:00 p.m.	Men's Triple Jump	Alex Jebb Grant Emrie
5:00 p.m.	Men's Weight Throw	Stephen Boals
7:00 p.m.	Women's Weight Throw	Stephanie Skove
Follows Women (Starting at 4:00 p.m.)	Men's Pole Vault (unseeded)	Jordan Hatfield
5:25 p.m.	Men's 3,000m	Blake Udland Eddie Merenda
6:20 p.m.	Men's 60m Hurdles (prelims)	Tionne Barmer Calvin Park
6:35 p.m.	Women's 60m (prelims)	Lauren Hansson Elizabeth Kerpon Madeline Kopp Maddy Price Dorehn Coleman Rachel Thompson
6:45 p.m.	Men's 60m (prelims)	Chaz Hawkins Brett Bofinger JR Smith
7:00 p.m.	Women's 1,000m	Anima Banks Haley Meier
7:20 p.m.	Men's 1,000m	Sean Kelly Alec Kunzweiler
7:40 p.m.	Men's 60m Hurdles (finals)
7:45 p.m.	Men's 60m (finals)
7:50 p.m.	Women's 60m (finals)
8:05 p.m.	Women's 600m	Jessica Buttinger Abby Farley
8:20 p.m.	Men's 600m	Kyle Francis Dylan Murphy Michael Wilson
8:30 p.m.	Women's Mile	Madison Granger Chloe Maleski Allison Sturges
8:50 p.m.	Men's Mile	Nate McClafferty Brian Schoepfer Henry Farley
9:10 p.m.	Women's 300m	Lauren Hansson Elizabeth Kerpon Madeline Kopp Maddy Price
9:30 p.m.	Men's 300m	Chaz Hawkins Brett Bofinger Matthew Rodio

Saturday, Jan. 24

11:00 a.m.	Women's Pole Vault (seeded) (Men's Pole Vault to follow)	Women: Megan Clark Madison Heath Men: Connor Hall
12:00 p.m.	Women's High Jump (Men's High Jump to follow)	Women: Maddie Morrow Men: Colt Sessions Andrew Pancoast
12:00 p.m.	Men's Shot Put	Stephen Boals
12:00 p.m.	Women's Long Jump	Karly Gregory
12:00 p.m.	Men's Long Jump	JR Smith Grant Emrie Ashton Huey Alex Jebb Colt Sessions
1:30 p.m.	Women's Shot Put	Erica Brand Urina Harrell
12:45 p.m.	Women's 400m	Callie Francis Alexis Roper Jasmine Hill
1:05 p.m.	Men's 400m	Michael Wilson Matthew Rodio Christian Vail
1:30 p.m.	Women's 800m	Gina Daniel
1:40 p.m.	Men's 800m	Kyle Francis Dylan Murphy
1:50 p.m.	Women's 200m	Lauren Hansson Elizabeth Kerpon Madeline Kopp Maddy Price Dorehn Coleman Rachel Thompson
2:10 p.m.	Men's 200m	Chaz Hawkins Brett Bofinger Calvin Park
2:50 p.m.	Men's 5,000m	William Rooney
3:25 p.m.	Men's Distance Medley Relay	DMR (A): Jordan Burton Kyle Francis Nate McClafferty Sean Kelly DMR (B): Henry Farley Christian Vail Dylan Newman Brian Schoepfer