Throwers Shine At Jeff Miller Non-Scoring Meet

Nick Baatz (Jr. • Brownsville) broke the discus school record to highlight UW-Oshkosh’s throwing dominance at the Jeff Miller Drake Alternative Meet on Saturday (April 28) in Whitewater. No team scores were kept.

The Titans owned three of the top-four finishers in both the hammer throw and shot put. Baatz captured the shot put gold with his toss of 55-8 1/4. Jeremy Brandt (So. • Wausau) followed in third place at 50-9 1/4 and Nick Grosskopf (Fr. • Weston) fourth at 50-2 1/2.

Ben Ludtke (Sr. • Lyons) won the hammer throw with a distance of 189-6. UW-Oshkosh added strong finishes of second (178-10) from Baatz and fourth (167-4) from Joe Brunner (So. • Reedsville). Baatz concluded his spectacular day with a second-place discus mark of 182-2, breaking the Titan record from 2003.

UW-Oshkosh had three other event winners. Alan German (Sr. • West Bend) cleared 21-3 1/2 in the long jump, while Dan Groshan (So. • Janesville) took the 200-meter dash in 23.48. Derek Johnsrud (So. • Fall River) clocked a 15:32.38 in the 5,000-meter run for first place.

Mike Servais (Fr. • New Franken) attained second-place results in both the 200 (23.70) and 400-meter (51.12) dashes. The other runner-up finish came from Kris Wilke (Sr. • Waterloo) and his 400-meter hurdles time of 55.43.

With the pole vault, Jake Dickmann (Jr. • Kewaskum) and Tom O'Connor (Sr. • Clintonville) tied for third place at 14-7 1/2. Jordan Carpenter (Fr. • Ashwaubenon) also came in third with a 4:06.37 in the 1,500-meter run.

UW-Oshkosh returns to Whitewater for the WIAC Championship on May 4-5.