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Brandon Krieg Lyam Dias added finished the weeka fourth-place finish end with four hits, in the 200 breastincluding two extrastroke and the 1,600 base hits, as well as a relay team turned in team-high three runs a fourth-place result and a pair of RBIs. of their own. In the eighth inTrack and ning of Sunday's Field sending contest, Cody Webfive to NCAAs ster appeared in reDanny Tucker Spread across lief duty, allowing the country at three one run in the frame. Webster, who is also the punter different last-chance meets on the football team, became — in Ames, Iowa, for the Iowa the first Boiler to compete for State Qualifier, in South Bend both teams since fellow punter for the Alex Wilson Invitational and in Blacksburg, Va., for Travis Dorsch in 2000. Purdue looks to get back the Virginia State Qualifier — on track this weekend with a Purdue's track and field team three-game series at Illinois- looked to post NCAA Championship-qualifying marks. Chicago. Some did. Jakob Engel set a personal Swimmers take fifth mark in the shot put competiPurdue's men's swimming and diving team rode a hand- tion at the Iowa State Qualiful of top-five individual finish- fier and posted a distance to es en route to finishing fifth at rank 12th nationally this season, good enough to qualify the Big Ten Championships. Danny Tucker's runner-up for next weekend's NCAA finish in the 100 freestyle high- championship. Chukwuebuka Enekwechi lighted Purdue's performance will be joining Engel at the while Jamie Bissett and Sean Mokhtari finished third and championships competing in fifth, respectively, in the plat- the weight throw. Junior Dani Bunch will be form diving event. competing in the same event on the women's side and has an outside chance of still qualifying for the shot put event. Vanessa McLeod and Geoff Davis did not compete over the weekend but previously posted qualifying times in the 800-meter run and high jump, respectively. First-year Coach Lonnie Greene will be having a homecoming of sorts when he takes his five athletes to the meet at Fayetteville, Ark. Greene was on staff with the Arkansas track and field team for 16 years before coming to Purdue. Men's tennis takes two The Boilermakers notched a pair of victories at home over the weekend, securing wins over Bradley and Green Bay. Purdue swept Bradley with a 7-0 tally before disposing of Green Bay 6-1. Matues Silva paced Purdue (11-3) with a pair of straightset singles victories on the weekend. Mark Kovacs, fresh off a doubles win, secured a twoset victory of his own at No. 1 singles against Green Bay. Purdue will be inactive this week before traveling to California over spring break when they will face Fresno State and UC Santa Barbara. j Women's tennis extends streak Purdue won two more matches this past weekend, extending its winning streak to five and again ascending the rankings to another program high. The 14th-ranked Boilermakers (6-1) notched a pair of 6-1 victories at No. 65 Wichita State and Western Michigan. One of the strengths of Purdue's hot start has been doubles play and that continued this past weekend as the Boilermakers rode victories in that spot to one-sided finishes in both matches. DISCOVERY IS OUR MISSION FINDING A CURE IS OUR GOAL www.cancerresearch.purdue.edu GoldanDBlack express • volume 23, express 24 • 31