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Gauthier also qualified for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships earlier this year.

DECATUR, Ill. – Dustin Gauthier finished 14th in the men's shot put at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Millikin University on Saturday afternoon.

Gauthier (Amherst, N.H.) was sixth in the first flight with a 49-foot, 11.25-inch throw. Cody Brotherton of McMurray University won the event with a mark of 59-1.5.

Bates finished the weekend with six points and tied for 46th at the NCAA championship. Matt Ondra '04 (New Tripolli, Pa.) scored four points by finishing in a three-way tie for fourth in the pole vault on Thursday, and Scott Cooper '06 (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) added two more with a seventh-place showing in the hammer throw. Ondra and Cooper earned All-America honors with their performances.

Releases from day one and day two of the championship are posted below.

Colony, Northrup Fall Just Short on Day Two of NCAA Championships
May 28, 2004

Joe Northrup was in seventh after the 110 hurdles and posted season-best performances in the javelin and 1,500 on Friday.

DECATUR, Ill. – Joe Northrup finished 10th in the decathlon and Joel Colony was missed the cut for the 100-meter dash final by less than a tenth of a second on the second day of competition at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Millikin University on Friday afternoon.

Northrup '06 (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) scored 6,417 points in the decathlon, just 82 points shy of duplicating his 2003 performance. Matt Roberson of Claremont Mudd-Scripps won the event with 7,171 points. Middlebury's Khristoph Becker was a distant second with 6,712.

Northrup, who started the day tied for eighth, got off to a good start in the 110 hurdles, finishing fourth. He struggled, however, in one of his usual strengths: the pole vault. While Northrup posted a season-best performance in the javelin and the 1,500 to close the meet, the point differential was too much to overcome to get into the top eight.

Colony '05 (Harrisville, N.H.) finished the 100 trials in 10.91 seconds to finish fourth in his heat. SUNY Cortland's Nick Weatherby crossed the line in 10.69 to post the fastest preliminary time. Dickinson's Greg Lott was the final qualifier for Saturday’s final, finishing in 10.84.

Bates has six points entering the final day of competition. Dustin Gauthier '05(Amherst, N.H.) will be the 11th seed in the shot put on Saturday.

Ondra, Cooper Earn All-America Honors at NCAA Track Championships
May 27, 2004

Matt Ondra set the school record in the pole vault during both indoor and outdoor track and field seasons for Bates this year.

DECATUR, Ill. – Matt Ondra and Scott Cooper earned All-America honors in the pole vault on Thursday at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Champioinships hosted by Millikin University on Thursday.

Ondra finished in a three-way tie for fourth in the pole vault, clearing 15 feet, 7.25 inches, finishing tied for fourth with North Central's Kyle Stumpenhorst and Blufton's Clint Dillon. Hans Schmidt of Wisconsin La Crosse won the event with a height of 17-1, with Matt Sheehan of Wheaton in second at 16-1.25.

Cooper '06 (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) finished in seventh place in the hammer throw with a toss of 179-9. Wisconsin-Whitewater's Jeremy Wendt won the event with an NCAA meet record throw of 215-5.

Joe Northrup '06 (St. Johnsbury, Vt.), an All-America in the decathlon at the 2003 championships, sits in a tie for eighth place after the first day of competition with 3,348 points in event this year. Northrup claimed an early lead by winning the 100-meter dash and moved back into contention for All-America honors with a second-place showing in the 400.

Northrup is tied with Jacob Budny of the University of Rochester. Matt Roberson of Claremont Mudd-Scripps leads the field with 3,685 points.