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Lucia Abel Wins Long Jump Competition

WHEATON, IL (May 4, 2003) - Lucia Abel won the long jump competition and placed second in the javelin toss for the North Park University (NPU) women's track team in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin track and field meet last weekend.

Abel leaped 18 feet, 2 and one-quarter inches in the long jump and her throw of 112 feet, 4 inches put her only behind Augustana College's Carol Reif, who won the event with a throw of 124 feet, 2 inches. Abel also finished third in the triple jump with a leap of 37 feet, 3 inches, just behind teammate Lacretia Carroll (37-10 and three-quarters) and Millikin University's Angie Hawk (38-6 and three quarters).

Carroll fared well in the 200-meter and 400-meter aces, placing third and fourth respectively. Sarah Baker placed seventh in the discus for North Park's other individual points. The Vikings had 48 points while Carthage College won its first women's team title ever with 176 points.

In the men's competition, NPU sprinters Dante Britten and Randle Williams placed sixth and seventh respectively in the 100-meter dash; Conor Johnson was fourth in the 400-meter hurdles; Matt Wheeler was fifth in the 400; Jerry Kosiba was fifth in the decathlon and Will Mejia was seventh in the shot put as the Vikings posted 29 team points to place eighth, well behind the 254 points by team champ North Central College.

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