Pleger finishes third in NCAA track meet
EUGENE, Oregon – Bowling Green’s Brooke Pleger finished third in the hammer throw Wednesday at the NCAA
track and field championships.
The redshirt junior’s best throw went 211-6. Princeton sophomore Julia Ratcliffe won with a throw of
219-5, while Colorado senior Emily Hunsucker finished second at 212-8.
Pleger, who finished seventh in the same event at nationals last season, was the No. 2 seed.
She threw 216-2 at the East Regional to finish behind only Ratcliffe, who had a mark of 221-6. Hunsucker
won the West Regional with a throw of 210-2.
Pleger became just the second individual in BG history to score (top eight) in the NCAA meet in two
different years. She is the first back-to-back All-American since Beth Manson in the discus in 1988 and
1989.
Prior to this year, the best BG finish in the women’s national championships was sixth place by Manson in
the discus in 1989 and by Huina Han in the triple jump in 1998. Deb Romsek finish fourth at the AIAW
Collegiate National Championship in 1976, prior to the NCAA sanctioning women’s track and field.
Former Falcon Reimold in minor league rehab stint
Former Bowling Green Falcon and Baltimore Orioles’ outfielder Nolan Reimold is on a minor league rehab
stint
He was 1-for-3 with a double and played six innings in left field Tuesday in his first game with Class AA
Bowie.
The 30-year-old has played in just 56 games with the Orioles the last two seasons, the result of multiple
neck fusion surgeries.
Reimold hit .263 with one home run and five RBIs in 14 games this spring before opening the season on the
disabled list with additional neck problems. He remained in Sarasota, Fla. to rehab the injury and has
spent the last few weeks playing in extended spring training games.