NCAA votes to maintain lane, three-point line
The Palestra floor will not have to be repainted after all. The NCAA Executive Committee voted last week to keep the current three-point line and free-throw lane.
The NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Rules Committees had proposed moving the line back nine inches from the current 19 feet, nine inches for the 2004-2005 season.
The committee also considered -- and later dismissed -- adopting a trapezoidal free-throw lane similar to the configuration used in Europe.
-- Jeff Shafer
Gymnastics finishes fourth at GW Invitational
Placing behind North Carolina, host-institution George Washington and Temple, the Penn gymnastics team secured fourth place with a score of 189.075 in a field that also included William & Mary and Cornell at the George Washington Invitational.
Freshman Kara Dewhurst had a career day and even managed to find her way into the Penn record books.
The freshman won the bars championship, as she scored a personal-best 9.8, which also tied her for fourth-best score in Penn gymnastics history on the bars.
Dewhurst recorded another personal best with a 9.625 score on the vault -- which led all Penn gymnasts.
Sophomore Emily Petkun placed sixth in the all-around competition with a score of 37.75. Her score on the floor routine of 9.625 was the highest of all Quakers.
Junior Leah Moon excelled on the balance beam, as she finished with a team-high score of 9.675.
Penn next faces Yale in New Haven, Conn., this Saturday as the Quakers attempt to knock off the defending Ivy Classic Champions.
-- Ryan Howard
M. Track yields second place at Naval Academy
The men's track team placed second in a four-team meet held at the United States Naval Academy.
The Quakers finished behind Navy, but ahead of Robert Morris University and Virginia Commonwealth University, with 164.50 points.
Junior Neal Wojdowski finished first in the pole vault after clearing the 4.80 meter mark.
Senior Justin King secured a second-place finish in the shot put after launching the shot put 15.21 meters.
Sophomore Mike Daley also earned a second-place finish, but in the triple jump after leaping 13.71 meters.
In the 55-meter hurdles, senior Matt Wedge finished in second place with a time of 7.40.
The Quakers won the 500, 800, 1000 and 4 x 800 meter races. Senior Joe Plevelich and freshman Carson Schmiett finished first and second in the 800-meter run.
-- R.H.
Second place secured by W. Track at Army meet
The women's track team finished 74.5 points behind the University of Connecticut to finish second at the Black Knight Invitational, held in West Point, N.Y.
Seniors Emily Logan and Elaine Lord won first and second place respectively in the 3,000 meters.
Fellow senior Susan Eisenberg also finished first in her event, the 400-meter dash.
Junior Izu Emeagwali and freshmen Jeanette Curtis and Christina Morrison all yielded second-place finishes for Penn in their respective events. Emeagwali finished second in the 200-meter dash, Curtis was the runner-up in the 60-meter hurdles and Morrison was second in the 800 meters.
Sophomore Charity Payne excelled in the throwing events, as she placed third in the weight throw and fourth in the shot put.
-- R.H.
