Dec. 11, 2010

Complete Results

WARREN, Mich. - Brittni Hutton and Micah Jones won two events each for the Oakland University men's and women's track & field team at the Macomb Opener Saturday afternoon.

"This was a nice meet for us going into the break," said head coach Paul Rice. "It was a fun relaxed environment for the athletes to compete in close to home. Overall we saw some great efforts today. I am very impressed with the way our field event athletes competed as well as our sprinters and hurdlers. The athletes and coaches are looking forward to the Christmas break and I know everyone will work hard to come back in January ready to go."

For the men, the Golden Grizzlies set two school records. Andrew Stebbins has a toss of 49 feet, 3/4th of an inch to win the shot put. He broke the school record of 48-11 set in 2009 by Anthony Halfmann. Halfmann would win the 35-LB weight with a school record toss of 52 feet 2.50 inches. That was almost five feet better than his previous best and broke the record of 49 feet, 5.75 inches set last year by Adam Grubius.

Oakland got winning performances from Kevin Luce in the 60M hurdles (8.45) and Randy Moore in the 200M dash (23.82). Halfmann was runner-up in the shot put (45 feet, 3.75 inches) and Tom Gienapp ran 9:41 to place second in the 3000.

For the women, OU set three school records, all in field events. Katelynn Hartmann won the shot put with a toss of 38 feet, 1/4th of an inch, breaking the mark she set last week. Shannon Getchen broke her own school record in winning the 20-LB weight with a toss of 45 feet, 8.5 inches. Jessica Pizzini won the pole vault clearing 11 feet, just missing the school record by a half-inch.

Brittni Hutton made her OU debut a good one in winning the mile and 3000 (5:31.19, 11:00.80, respectively. Micah Jones won two events for the second straight week as she took the high jump (five feet, six inches) and long jump (17 feet, eight inches). Megan Enzor closed out the winning capturing the 60M hurdles (9.21).

Oakland is off until Jan. 14 when they travel to Mt. Pleasant, Mich., to compete in the Chip Invite. The meet is scheduled to run all day.

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