Baker Earns Silver at Walton Combined Events

COLUMBIA, Mo.?Sara Jane Baker finished second during Friday’s conclusion of the women’s pentathlon at the Audrey Walton Combined Events Carnival. Her career-high score of 5,469 was tops among collegiate athletes, and it was also the third-best overall NCAA score of the 2005 outdoor season.<?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>

 

Baker set a personal-best mark in the javelin (130-1) by nearly three feet, while she also approached her best in the 800-meter run (2:15.77). Teammate Ashley Selig claimed fourth place with 5,335 points, while Casie Witte’s seventh-place total of 5,072 earned her the first NCAA regional-qualifying mark of her career. Fiona Asigbee (unattached) won the meet with a score of 5,773.

 

Lee Martin was NU’s highest finisher in the men’s decathlon with a sixth-place performance in which he amassed a score of 6,660. Kyle Goerl (5,241) finished 15th.

 

Nebraska continues its weekend of competition by sending a large squad of athletes to Saturday’s John Jacobs Invitational in Norman, Okla. Four Huskers will also participate at the Long Beach Invitational in Long Beach, Calif.