Wake Forest Athletics
Wake Forest University
ACC Championships
LaRue, Sikes Card Victories at ACC Indoor Championships
2/24/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Track and Field
Feb. 23, 2007
CLEMSON, S.C. -
Sophomore Brent LaRue won the heptathlon at the ACC Indoor Championships on Friday, breaking his personal best score in the event with 5,617 points. The men's team stands in sixth place with 16 points while the women are seventh with 12 points after the first full day of events from the campus of Clemson University.
Buoyed by a win in the 60-meter hurdles (8.01) and second place finishes in the 60-meter dash (7.06), long jump (21-9) and the 1,000-meter run (2:36.67), the Kernersville, N.C., native surpassed his previous-best total of 5,480 and beat Clemson's Ryan Koontz, last year's champion, by 86 points. LaRue garnered All-ACC honors as a result of his top-three finish in the event.
Sophomore Taylor Wildman also scored for the Deacs in the heptathlon, coming in seventh place with 4,966 points.
Senior Michelle Sikes continued her successful season at the ACC Championships and earned the team's first automatically qualifying time of the year. Running in her first 5,000-meter race of the indoor season, the Lakewood, Ohio, native ran a time of 15:57.24 to win the race and earn the automatic qualification.
The women's distance medley relay team of Allie Kieffer, Melissa Council, Kim Vos and Caitlin Chrisman placed eighth with a time of 11:54.82. Senior Lindsay Neuberger also placed eigth with a heave of 56-6 3/4 in the weight throw.
The men's team got four more team points from junior Oderah Nwaeze who placed fifth in the long jump. The Raleigh native had a personal-best leap of 23-0 1/2 to get the four team points for the Deacons.
Several Deacs also qualified for the finals of their respective events for Saturday. Senior Brad Wharton finished second in the mile in the prelims, running a time of 4:11.47 to qualify. After finishing the heptathlon, LaRue finished fourth in the 60-meter hurdles in a time of 8.05 for his qualification. Junior Chris Catton finished eighth in qualifying in the 800-meter run in a time of 1:53.61
Two Deacons qualified for the finals of the men's 400-meter dash. Junior Michael Bingham had the top qualifying time of 48.38 while freshman Jonathan Reid came in eighth in a time of 49.23.
The final day of the ACC Championships begins on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. with the women's high jump.
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